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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 88, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.033842
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- Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Department of Chemistry at the Technion, Israel
- Imperial College JRF scheme
- CNPq [305519/2012-3]
- ISF [298/11]
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In atomic physics, adiabatic evolution is often used to achieve a robust and efficient population transfer. Many adiabatic schemes have also been implemented in optical waveguide structures. Recently there has been increasing interest in the influence of decay and absorption, and their engineering applications. Here it is shown that even a small decay can significantly influence the dynamical behavior of a system, above and beyond a mere change of the overall norm. In particular, a small decay can lead to a breakdown of adiabatic transfer schemes, even when both the spectrum and the eigenfunctions are only sightly modified. This is demonstrated for the generalization of a stimulated Raman adiabatic passage scheme that has recently been implemented in optical waveguide structures. Here the question how an additional absorption in either the initial or the target waveguide influences the transfer property of the scheme is addressed. It is found that the scheme breaks down for small values of the absorption at a relatively sharp threshold, which can be estimated by simple analytical arguments.
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