Abstract-Selecting rotational two-level coherence in polar molecules by double terahertz pulses

Kenta Kitano, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai, and Jiro Itatani

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.041402

We demonstrate experimentally a method for controlling two-level coherence in jet-cooled rotating polar molecules by using a pair of intense terahertz pulses. The broad spectra of the terahertz pulses can induce resonant population transfer between four rotational states J=0,1,2,3 to establish two-level coherence. This coherence is controlled by the delay between the two terahertz pulses, resulting in selection of a single two-level coherence. This scheme can be extended to select a specific two-level coherence in a thermally distributed molecular ensemble by applying a train of terahertz pulses.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.041402

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• Published 30 October 2014
• Received 15 July 2014

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