Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.101, No.9, 7528-7530, 1994
Is Adiabatic Passage Population Transfer a Solution to an Optimal-Control Problem
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:STIMULATED RAMAN-SCATTERING;VIBRATIONAL LEVELS;LASER-PULSES;UNIMOLECULAR REACTIONS;DENSITY-MATRIX;SELECTIVITY;INVERSION;MOLECULES;DISSOCIATION;ORIENTATION