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Volume 101, Number 6, March 2013
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| Article Number | 68006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/101/68006 | |
| Published online | 04 April 2013 | |
Control of Landau-Zener transition in NaI predissociation with chirped femtosecond laser pulses
Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University - Beijing, 100871, PRC
Received: 7 January 2013
Accepted: 11 March 2013
We explore the control of the Landau-Zener (LZ) transition in NaI predissociation with low-intensity linearly and quadratically chirped femtosecond far-infrared laser pulses by solving the coupled time-dependent Schrödinger equations. We find that the LZ transition between the excited state and the ground state can be enhanced or be suppressed using a well-delayed control pulse with a proper linear or quadratic chirp. With instantaneously controlling the energy gap, the resonant population inversion induced by Rabi oscillation can facilitate or prohibit the molecular population transfer in the avoided-crossing region. This work provides a deep understanding of coherent control of LZ transition in molecular reaction with chirped femtosecond laser pulses.
PACS: 82.50.Nd – Control of photochemical reactions / 42.50.Hz – Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift / 33.80.Gj – Diffuse spectra; predissociation, photodissociation
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