Is adiabatic passage population transfer a solution to an optimal control problem?
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 101 (9) , 7528-7530
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.468246
Abstract
We demonstrate that stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) of population from a ground state to an excited state of an atom or molecule is not an optimal control solution to the problem of maximizing the population in the excited state.Keywords
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