Laser control of quantum systems by ultrafast parallel adiabatic passage : application to high fidelity population transfer, state selectivity, and s…

2011

In this work we establish and test the technique of parallel adiabatic passage (PLAP) thatoptimizes the adiabatic passage in the sense that it selects specific paths that allow a fastadiabatic dynamics while preserving the standard robustness of adiabatic techniques. Theintuition of PLAP is based on the fact that the use of eigenvalues that are parallel for alltimes is expected to lead to a small nonadiabatic transition probability from Landau-Zeneranalysis for two-state approximations. In this work we test the robustness of this techniqueand show its superiority to the traditional linearly chirped dynamics with Gaussian pulses. Weshow its extension for two-photon and three-photon transitio…