{
  "id": "0906.1989",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-06-10T18:44:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-06-10T18:44:56.000Z",
  "title": "Optimum pulse shapes for stimulated Raman adiabatic passage",
  "authors": [
    "G. S. Vasilev",
    "A. Kuhn",
    "N. V. Vitanov"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 6 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev. A",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), driven with pulses of optimum shape and delay has the potential of reaching fidelities high enough to make it suitable for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. The optimum pulse shapes are obtained upon reduction of STIRAP to effective two-state systems. We use the Dykhne-Davis-Pechukas (DDP) method to minimize nonadiabatic transitions and to maximize the fidelity of STIRAP. This results in a particular relation between the pulse shapes of the two fields driving the Raman process. The DDP-optimized version of STIRAP maintains its robustness against variations in the pulse intensities and durations, the single-photon detuning and possible losses from the intermediate state.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-06-10T18:44:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "stimulated raman adiabatic passage",
      "optimum pulse shapes",
      "fidelities high",
      "intermediate state",
      "fault-tolerant quantum information processing"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0906.1989V"
    }
  }
}