Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-07-29
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
We investigate theoretically population dynamics in an N-level system for pulses of arbitrary shape. In order to use Floquet theory the pulse only has to have finite support in time, which is well fulfilled in experiments. Furthermore the dynamics must be approximately time-local, which restricts to negligible memory effects. Despite the few requirements we are able to derive criteria for resonances, which means that all population rests in a preselected state after the pulse has been applied. We show that the necessary criterion on the Floquet quasienergies is a generalization of the pi-pulse criterion, derived within the Rotating Wave Approximation and adiabatic aproximation for the envelope by Holthaus et. al., to pulses of arbitrary shape. Furthermore we find that only the eigenvectors contain enough information to give a sufficient criterion for a resonance. We constuct the resonant N-level propagator and show that it is block diagonal, leading to a description by an effective 2-level-system composed of the initial and final state.
Jakubetz Werner
Uiberacker Christoph
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