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Title

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage from an atomic to a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate

Author(s)

Drummond, P. D.;  Kheruntsyan, K. V.;  Heinzen, D. J.;  Wynar, R. H.

Abstract

The process of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) was analyzed in a three-dimensional mean-field theory, including atom-atom interactions and non resonant intermediate levels. The optimal strategies in STRAP were identified which allowed to maintain high conversion efficiencies with smaller Rabi frequencies and under experimentally less demanding conditions. The analysis showed that the STIRAP process was feasible at larger Rabi frequencies than anticipated from a crude single-mode lossless analysis.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Physical Review A, Vol. 65, no. 6 (2002), article no. 063619

Publication year

2002

FOR Code(s)

0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics;  0204 Condensed Matter Physics;  0205 Optical Physics

Keyword(s)

Asymptotic stability;  Atomic physics;  BEC;  Bose-Einstein condensates;  Condensation;  Frequencies;  Ground state;  Kinetic energy;  Mathematical models;  Molecules;  Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage;  STIRAP

Publisher

American Physical Society

ISSN

1050-2947

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.063619

Copyright

Copyright © 2002 The American Physical Society. Published version of this paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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