Time-dependent treatment of a general three-level system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Rau, A R P ^a   Zhao, Weichang ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINDBLAD OPERATORS; MULTIPHOTON COUPLINGS; QUANTUM CONTROL; THREE-LEVEL SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 26944464155     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.063822     Document Type: Article

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