The procedure of stimulated-Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), one of many well-established techniques for quantum-state manipulation, finds widespread application in chemistry, physics, and information processing. Numerous reviews discuss these applications, the history of its development, and some of the underlying physics. This tutorial supplies material useful as background for the STIRAP reviews as well as related techniques for adiabatic manipulation of quantum structures, with emphasis on the theory and simulation rather than on experimental results. It particularly emphasizes the picturing of behavior in various abstract vector spaces, wherein torque equations offer intuition about adiabatic changes. Appendices provide brief explanations of related coherent-excitation topics and useful evaluations of relative strengths of coherent transitions—the Rabi frequencies—involving Zeeman sublevels.

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描绘受激拉曼绝热通道：STIRAP 教程

受激拉曼绝热通道 ​​(STIRAP) 程序是众多成熟的量子态操纵技术之一，在化学、物理和信息处理中得到广泛应用。许多评论讨论了这些应用、其发展历史以及一些基础物理学。本教程提供有用的材料作为 STIRAP 评论的背景以及量子结构绝热操作的相关技术，重点是理论和模拟，而不是实验结果。它特别强调对各种抽象向量空间中行为的描绘，其中扭矩方程提供了关于绝热变化的直觉。