Perspective: Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage: The status after 25 years

2015/05/01 by Klaas Bergmann, K. Bergmann, Nikolay V. Vitanov +1 · 190 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Artificial intelligence #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Computer science #Excited state #Perspective (graphical) #Physics #Presentation (obstetrics) #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.4916903

published in The Journal of Chemical Physics 142(17), 170901 (American Institute of Physics)

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Abstract

The first presentation of the STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) technique with proper theoretical foundation and convincing experimental data appeared 25 years ago, in the May 1st, 1990 issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics. By now, the STIRAP concept has been successfully applied in many different fields of physics, chemistry, and beyond. In this article, we comment briefly on the initial motivation of the work, namely, the study of reaction dynamics of vibrationally excited small molecules, and how this initial idea led to the documented success. We proceed by providing a brief discussion of the physics of STIRAP and how the method was developed over the years, before discussing a few examples from the amazingly wide range of applications which STIRAP now enjoys, with the aim to stimulate further use of the concept. Finally, we mention some promising future directions.

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