Acta Physica Sinica

Coherent population trapping in a specific model

Bi Dong-Yan, 西北大学物理系，西安 710069

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

Coherent population trapping is shown to occur in a driven symmetric double-well potential. In the model of the ammonia molecule, for a molecule initially prepared in its lower doublet, under certain circumstances, the upper level remains unpopulated, this occurs in spite of the fact that the laser field is resonant with the |2〉→|3〉 trasition. This is a coherent population trapping phenomenon which cannot be accounted for with the convential models.

DOI: 10.7498/aps.57.4685

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