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    Peeking and poking at atoms with laser light

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    Deterministic quantum state transfer of atoms in a random magnetic field

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    We propose a method for transferring atoms to a target quantum state for a multilevel quantum system with sequentially increasing, but otherwise unknown, energy splitting. This is achieved with a feedback algorithm that processes off-resonant optical measurements of state populations during adiabatic rapid passage in real-time. Specifically, we reliably perform the transfer ∣F=2,mF=2⟩→∣1,1⟩→∣2,1⟩|F=2,m_F=2\rangle \rightarrow |1,1\rangle \rightarrow |2,1\rangle for a sample of ultracold 87^{87}Rb in the presence of a random external magnetic field
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