Efficiencies of adiabatic transfer in a multistate system
Abstract
We present a theoretical and experimental study of the efficiency of adiabatic transfer between the Zeeman substates of the cesium ground level, using the D1 F=4-->4' transition. In order to understand the application of the adiabatic condition to such multistate systems, we examine the separation of their energy eigenstates as a function of the number of participating states. We present a systematic investigation of the physical factors affecting the efficiency of transfer in a multistate system and we see that velocity selection plays an important role in these calculations. We use the theory to compare the suitability of adiabatic transfer with F=1-->1' and F=4-->4' transitions for atom optics.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3775
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvA..59.3775G
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Vk;
- 03.75.Dg;
- Mechanical effects of light on atoms molecules electrons and ions;
- Atom and neutron interferometry