TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonadiabatic effects induced by the coupling between vibrational modes via Raman fields
AU - Patel, Vishesha
AU - Malinovskaya, Svetlana
PY - 2011/1/31
Y1 - 2011/1/31
N2 - We study the effect of coupling between molecular vibrational modes attendant the excitation of Raman transitions using ultrafast chirped laser pulses. We model Raman-active vibrational modes by two-level systems (TLSs) with nondegenerate ground states and a predetermined initial relative phase. Chirp of the pump and Stokes pulses is the same in magnitude and opposite in sign for the whole pulse duration. To reveal the nonadiabatic effects induced by the coupling between the vibrational modes, we compare the model of two uncoupled TLSs with the one of two TLSs coupled by the external fields. The first model shows population inversion. Within the second model, the coupling induces nonadiabatic effects leading to a mixed population distribution. By introducing the time delay between the Stokes and pump pulses, nearly complete population transfer is realized in both coupled TLSs.
AB - We study the effect of coupling between molecular vibrational modes attendant the excitation of Raman transitions using ultrafast chirped laser pulses. We model Raman-active vibrational modes by two-level systems (TLSs) with nondegenerate ground states and a predetermined initial relative phase. Chirp of the pump and Stokes pulses is the same in magnitude and opposite in sign for the whole pulse duration. To reveal the nonadiabatic effects induced by the coupling between the vibrational modes, we compare the model of two uncoupled TLSs with the one of two TLSs coupled by the external fields. The first model shows population inversion. Within the second model, the coupling induces nonadiabatic effects leading to a mixed population distribution. By introducing the time delay between the Stokes and pump pulses, nearly complete population transfer is realized in both coupled TLSs.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013413
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013413
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79551603195
SN - 1050-2947
VL - 83
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 013413
ER -