2007/02/26 by Benjamin P. Holder, B. P. Holder, L. E. Reichl +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.76.013420
29 pages, 5 figures; Submitted to Phys. Rev. A, 2/26/07
arxiv created 2007/02/26 · openalex publication_date 2007/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce a method for the coherent acceleration of atoms trapped in an optical lattice, using the well-known model for stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). Specifically, we show that small harmonic modulations of the optical lattice amplitude, with frequencies tuned to the eigenvalue spacings of three ``unperturbed'' eigenstates, reveals a three-state STIRAP subsystem. We use this model to realize an experimentally achievable method for transferring trapped atoms from stationary to motional eigenstates.