Photoassociation of cold atoms with chirped laser pulses: Time-dependent calculations and analysis of the adiabatic transfer within a two-state model

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Luc Koenig, E ^a   Kosloff, R ^b   Masnou Seeuws, F ^a   Vatasescu, M ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MOLECULES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADIABATIC TRANSFER; COLD ATOMS; TIME-DEPENDENT CALCULATIONS; TWO-STATE MODELS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 19644400793     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.033414     Document Type: Article

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