Stimulated Raman transitions via multiple atomic levels
Quantum Physics
2010-08-23 v4 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We consider the stimulated Raman transition between two long-lived states via multiple intermediate states, such as between hyperfine ground states in the alkali-metal atoms. We present a concise treatment of the general, multilevel, off-resonant case, and we show how the lightshift emerges naturally in this approach. We illustrate our results by application to alkali-metal atoms and we make specific reference to cesium. We comment on some artifacts, due solely to the geometrical overlap of states, which are relevant to existing experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.2389,
title = {Stimulated Raman transitions via multiple atomic levels},
author = {James Bateman and André Xuereb and Tim Freegarde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2389},
year = {2010}
}
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8 pages, 2 figure