{
  "id": "1003.3616",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-03-18T16:07:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-03-18T16:07:59.000Z",
  "title": "Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in an open quantum system: Master equation approach",
  "authors": [
    "M. Scala",
    "B. Militello",
    "A. Messina",
    "N. V. Vitanov"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 81, 053847 (2010)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053847",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "A master equation approach to the study of environmental effects in the adiabatic population transfer in three-state systems is presented. A systematic comparison with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach [N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm, Phys. Rev. A {\\bf 56}, 1463 (1997)] shows that in the weak coupling limit the two treatments lead to essentially the same results. Instead, in the strong damping limit the predictions are quite different: in particular the counterintuitive sequences in the STIRAP scheme turn out to be much more efficient than expected before. This point is explained in terms of quantum Zeno dynamics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-03-18T16:07:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.Yz",
      "42.50.Dv",
      "42.50.Lc"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "master equation approach",
      "stimulated raman adiabatic passage",
      "open quantum system",
      "adiabatic population transfer",
      "non-hermitian hamiltonian approach"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 81,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": "053847"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvA..81e3847S"
    }
  }
}