LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Landau Zener dynamics in a curved optical directional coupler
Abstract
A simple and experimentally accessible optical realization of Landau-Zener dynamics of two-level quantum systems with a finite coupling duration is proposed using a waveguide-based directional coupler with a cubically bent axis.
- Publication:
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Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
- Pub Date:
- June 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1464-4266/7/6/L01
- Bibcode:
- 2005JOptB...7L...9L
- Keywords:
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- Landau–Zener dynamics optical directional coupling optical tunnelling