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We propose a method to improve the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) via dissipative quantum dynamics, taking into account the dephasing effects. Fast and robust population transfer can be obtained with the scheme by the designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Qi-Cheng Wu , Ye-Hong Chen , Bi-Hua Huang , Yan Xia , Jie Song , Shi-Biao Zheng

In this paper we propose a new protocol to achieve coherent population transfer between two states in a three-level atom by using two ac fields. It is based on the physics of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP), but it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. G. Di Stefano , E. Paladino , A. D'Arrigo , G. Falci

Adiabatic passage techniques, used to drive a system from one quantum state into another, find widespread application in physics and chemistry. We focus on techniques to spatially transport a quantum amplitude over a strongly coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Koen Groenland , Carla Groenland , Reinier Kramer

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) allows to efficiently transferring the populations between two discrete quantum states and has been used to prepare molecules in their rovibrational ground state. In realistic molecules, a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Lan Liu , De-Chao Zhang , Huan Yang , Ya-Xiong Liu , Jue Nan , Jun Rui , Bo Zhao , Jian-Wei Pan

Reaching a given target quantum state with high fidelity and fast operation speed close to the quantum limit represents an important goal in quantum information science. Here, we experimentally demonstrate superadiabatic quantum driving to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Musang Gong , Min Yu , Yaoming Chu , Wei Chen , Qingyun Cao , Ning Wang , Jianming Cai , Ralf Betzholz , Luigi Giannelli

We discuss a simple scheme for preparing atoms and molecules in an arbitrary preselected coherent superposition of quantum states. The technique, which we call fractional stimulated Raman adiabatic passage ({\it f-STIRAP}), is based upon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Vitanov , K. -A. Suominen , B. W. Shore

We consider combined stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and fast forward field (FFF) control of selective vibrational population transfer in a polyatomic molecule. The motivation for using this combination control scheme is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Shumpei Masuda , Stuart A. Rice

This article proposes a new method to increase the efficiency of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in superconducting circuits using a shortcut to the adiabaticity (STA) method. The STA speeds up the adiabatic process before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Madan Mohan Mahana , Sankar Davuluri , Tarak Nath Dey

This work theoretically investigates possibilities of using the Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP) and its variants to control a coherent superposition of quantum states. We present a generalization of the so-called fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Miguel A. Alarcón , Karl Hauser , Nikolay V. Golubev

We exploit a microscopically derived master equation for the study of STIRAP in the presence of decay from the auxiliary level toward the initial and final state, and compare our results with the predictions obtained from a phenomenological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Scala , B. Militello , A. Messina , N. V. Vitanov

This paper discusses a generalization of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in which the single intermediate state is replaced by $N$ intermediate states. Each of these states is connected to the initial state $\state{i}$ with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Vitanov , S. Stenholm

We study the exact dynamics underlying stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) for a particle in a multi-level anharmonic system (the infinite square-well) driven by two sequential laser pulses, each with constant carrier frequency. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyungsun Na , L. E. Reichl

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage is a quantum protocol that can be used for robust state preparation in a three-level system. It has been commonly employed in quantum optics, but recently this technique has drawn attention also in circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 A. Vepsäläinen , G. S. Paraoanu

We develop a complete theoretical description of photoassociative Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP) near a Feshbach resonance in a thermal atomic gas. We show that it is possible to use low intensity laser pulses to directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena Kuznetsova , Susanne F. Yelin , Marko Gacesa , Philippe Pellegrini , Robin Côté

Achieving a high population of antihydrogen/hydrogen atoms in the 2S level is essential for spectroscopy measurements testing similarities between matter and antimatter. We propose and examine the efficiency of applying the STIRAP…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 AbdAlGhaffar K. Amer , A. Capra , T. Friesen , M. C. Fujiwara , T. Momose , C. So , F. Robicheaux

We study dynamics of a two-color photoassociation of atoms into diatomic molecules via nonlinear Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) process. This system has a famous counterpart in (linear) quantum mechanics, and been discussed…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-13 A. P. Itin , S. Watanabe

We consider stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) when the final state is a superposition of two non-degenerate states. The system consists of four states coupled by two light fields. We find the relative phase of the final…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Eli Morhayim , Michael T. Ziemba , J. Lim , B. E. Sauer

Efficient preparation and detection of the motional state of trapped ions is important in many experiments ranging from quantum computation to precision spectroscopy. We investigate the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Florian Gebert , Yong Wan , Fabian Wolf , Jan C. Heip , Piet O. Schmidt

In this paper, we investigate the coherent control over a complex multi-level atomic system using the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). Based on the example of rubidium-87 atoms, excited with circularly-polarized light at the D1…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Aleksandra Sierant , Marek Kopciuch , Szymon Pustelny

Robust quantum control is essential for the development of quantum computers, which rely on precise manipulation of qubits. One form of quantum control is stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which ordinarily is a state transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Khayla Black , Xi Chen , Tim Byrnes