Adiabatic-Following Approximation
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 8 (4), 2128-2135
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.8.2128
Abstract
The nonlinear response of an atom to a near-resonant light pulse is studied using a novel approximation scheme. In first order, the approximate solution reduces to the well-known rate equations. The second-order approximation contains Grischkowsky's adiabatic-following approximation. In each order, the approximate solution of the Bloch equations is presented with a closed-form expression for the error that can be used to investigate its range of validity.Keywords
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