Local control of population transfer in molecules under fluctuating perturbations
Résumé
We investigate the laser induced population transfer between electronic states of Na2 molecules which are subject to additional perturbations by an environment. In a former paper [S. Gräfe, M. Erdmann, V. Engel, Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 013404] it was shown that within the formalism of Local Control Theory, laser fields can be constructed which are able to selectively transfer population from the electronic ground to a target excited electronic state. Here, we address the question in how far the efficiency of the control process is influenced by additional perturbations. Therefore, we employ a stochastic Schrödinger equation including a fluctuation-term in the Hamiltonian.