B. Ståhlberg, P. Jungner, T. Fellman,
K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm: Laser induced polarization properties of a neon three-level system
Opt. Commun. 77, 147-151 (1990).
K.-A. Suominen, B.M. Garraway and S. Stenholm: The adiabatic limit of level crossings
Opt. Commun. 82, 260-266 (1991).
K.-A. Suominen, S. Stenholm and B. Ståhlberg: Laser induced dispersion in a three-level system
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 1899-1906 (1991).
B. Ståhlberg, K.-A. Suominen, P. Jungner and T. Fellman: Measurements of laser-induced dispersion
in a neon three-level system
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 2020-2025 (1991).
K.-A. Suominen and B.M. Garraway: Population transfer in a level-crossing
model with two time scales
Phys. Rev. A 45, 374-386 (1992).
K.-A. Suominen, B.M. Garraway and S. Stenholm: Wave-packet model for excitation by ultrashort pulses
Phys. Rev. A 45, 3060-3070 (1992).
W.K. Lai, K.-A. Suominen, B.M. Garraway and S. Stenholm: Dissipation effects on wave packets in level crossings:
A comparison between two numerical approaches
Phys. Rev. A 47, 4779-4785 (1993).
K.-A. Suominen and B.M. Garraway: Wave packet dynamics:
Level-crossing induced changes in momentum distributions
Phys. Rev. A 48, 3811-3819 (1993).
M.J. Holland, K.-A. Suominen and K. Burnett: Quantal treatment of cold collisions in a laser field
Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2367-2370 (1994).
P.S. Julienne, K.-A. Suominen and Y. Band: Complex-potential model of collisions of laser-cooled atoms
Phys. Rev. A 49, 3890-3896 (1994).
K.-A. Suominen, M.J. Holland, K. Burnett and P.S. Julienne: Excited state survival probabilities for cold collisions
in a weak laser field
Phys. Rev. A 49, 3897-3902 (1994).
M.J. Holland, K.-A. Suominen and K. Burnett: Cold collisions in a laser field:
Quantum Monte Carlo treatment of radiative heating
Phys. Rev. A 50, 1513-1530 (1994).
Å. Lindberg, B. Ståhlberg and K.-A. Suominen: Forward-scattering ring structure and spectra dependence
on laser frequency
Phys. Rev. A 50, 1531-1539 (1994).
L. Marcassa, S. Muniz, E. de Queiroz, S. Zilio, V. Bagnato, J. Weiner,
P.S. Julienne and K.-A. Suominen: Optical suppression of photoassociative ionization in
a magneto-optical trap
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1911-1914 (1994).
Y.B. Band, I. Tuvi, K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett and P.S. Julienne: Loss from magneto-optical traps in strong laser fields
Phys. Rev. A 50, R2826-R2829 (1994).
K.-A. Suominen, M.J. Holland, K. Burnett, and P.S. Julienne: Optical shielding of cold collisions
Phys. Rev. A 51, 1446-1457 (1995).
A. Paloviita, K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm: Molecular excitation by chirped pulses
J. Phys. B 28, 1463-1474 (1995).
B.M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen: Wave packet dynamics: New physics and chemistry in femto-time
Reports on Progress in Physics 58, 365-419 (1995).
G.M. Palma, K.-A. Suominen and A. Ekert: Quantum computation and dissipation
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 452, 567-584 (1996).
K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, and P.S. Julienne: Role of off-resonant excitation in cold collisions
in a strong laser field
Phys. Rev. A 53, R1220-R1223 (1996).
K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, P.S. Julienne, M. Walhout, U. Sterr, C. Orzel,
M. Hoogerland, and S.L. Rolston: Ultracold collisions and optical shielding in metastable xenon
Phys. Rev. A 53, 1678-1689 (1996).
A. Barenco, A. Ekert, K.-A. Suominen, and P. Törmä: Approximate quantum Fourier transform and decoherence
Phys. Rev. A 54, 139-146 (1996).
K. Burnett, P.S. Julienne, and K.-A. Suominen: Laser-driven collisions between atoms in
a Bose-Einstein condensed gas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1416-1419 (1996).
K.-A. Suominen: Theories for cold atomic collisions in light fields
J. Phys. B 29, 5981-6007 (1996).
A. Paloviita and K.-A. Suominen: Molecular excitation by large-area ultrashort pulses
Phys. Rev. A 55 3007-3013 (1997).
A. Paloviita, K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm: Weisskopf-Wigner model for wavepacket excitation
J. Phys. B 30, 2623-2633 (1997).
N.V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen: Time-dependent control of ultracold atoms in magnetic traps
Phys. Rev. A 56, R4377-R4380 (1997).
B.M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen: Adiabatic passage by light-induced potentials in molecules
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 932-935 (1998).
S. Stenholm and K.-A. Suominen: Weisskopf-Wigner decay of excited oscillator states
Optics Express 2, 378-390 (1998).
K.-A. Suominen, Y.B. Band, I. Tuvi, K. Burnett, and P.S. Julienne: Quantum and semiclassical calculations of cold atom collisions in
light fields
Phys. Rev. A 57, 3724-3738 (1998).
R. Dum, A. Sanpera, K.-A. Suominen, M. Brewczyk, M. Kus, K. Rzazewski
and M. Lewenstein: Wave packet dynamics with Bose-Einstein condensates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3899-3902 (1998).
B.M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen: Wave packet dynamics and quantum beats
Phys. Rev. A 58, 440-449 (1998).
K.-A. Suominen, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne: Nonadiabatic dynamics in evaporative cooling of trapped
atoms by a radio-frequency field
Phys. Rev. A 58, 3983-3992 (1998).
N. Lütkenhaus, J. Calsamiglia, and K.-A. Suominen: On Bell measurements for teleportation
Phys. Rev. A 59, 3301-3319 (1999).
M. Machholm, P.S. Julienne, and K.-A. Suominen: Collisions of cold magnesium atoms in a weak laser field
Phys. Rev. A 59, R4113-R4416 (1999).
N.V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen: Nonlinear level crossing models
Phys. Rev. A 59, 4580-4588 (1999).
N.V. Vitanov, K.-A. Suominen, and B.W. Shore: Creation of coherent atomic superpositions by fractional stimulated
Raman adiabatic passage
J. Phys. B 32, 4535-4546 (1999).
J.-P. Martikainen and K.-A. Suominen: The validity of the Landau-Zener model for output coupling of
Bose condensates
Phys. Rev. A 60, 4175-4178 (1999).
O.H. Pakarinen and K.-A. Suominen: Atomic dynamics in evaporative cooling of trapped alkali-metal atoms
in strong magnetic fields
Phys. Rev. A 62, 025402 (2000) (4 pages).
M. Rodriguez, K.-A. Suominen, and B.M. Garraway: Tailoring of vibrational state populations with light-induced
potentials in molecules
Phys. Rev. A 62, 053413 (2000) (5 pages).
J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and K. Berg-Sørensen: Cold collisions between atoms in optical lattices
J. Phys. B 34, L231-L237 (2001).
A.M. Ishkhanyan and K.-A. Suominen: Solutions of the two-level problem in terms of biconfluent Heun functions
J. Phys. A 34, 6301-6306 (2001).
A.M. Ishkhanyan and K.-A. Suominen: Analytic treatment of the polariton problem for a smooth interface
J. Phys. A 34, L591-L598 (2001).
M. Machholm, P.S. Julienne, and K.-A. Suominen: Calculations of collisions between cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms
in a weak laser field
Phys. Rev. A 64, 033425 (2001) (19 pages).
J.-P. Martikainen, M. Mackie, and K.-A. Suominen: Comment on "Bose-Einstein condensation with magnetic dipole-dipole forces"
Phys. Rev. A 64, 037601 (2001) (2 pages).
J. Calsamiglia, S.M. Barnett, N. Lütkenhaus, and K.-A. Suominen: Removal of a single photon by adaptive absorption
Phys. Rev. A 64, 043814 (2001) (6 pages).
J. Calsamiglia, M. Mackie, and K.-A. Suominen: Superposition of macroscopic numbers of atoms and molecules
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160403 (2001) (4 pages).
J.-P. Martikainen and K.-A. Suominen: Collective excitations in an F = 2 Bose-Einstein condensate
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 34, 4091-4101 (2001).
J.-P. Martikainen, K.-A. Suominen, L. Santos, T. Schulte, and A. Sanpera: Generation and evolution of vortex-antivortex pairs in Bose-Einstein condensates
Phys. Rev. A 64, 063602 (2001) (5 pages).
M. Machholm, P.S. Julienne, and K.-A. Suominen: Subthermal linewidths in photoassociation spectra of cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms
Phys. Rev. A 65, 023401 (2002) (4 pages).
J.-P. Martikainen, A. Collin and K.-A. Suominen: Creation of a monopole in a spinor condensate
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090404 (2002) (4 pages).
J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and K. Berg-Sorensen: Atomic collision dynamics in optical lattices
Phys. Rev. A 65, 033411 (2002) (16 pages).
B.M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen: Wave packet dynamics in molecules
Contemporary Physics 43, 97-114 (2002).
A. Ishkhanyan and K.-A. Suominen: Three-level system driven by delayed pulses of finite duration
Phys. Rev. A 65, 051403(R) (2002) (4 pages).
J. Piilo and K.-A. Suominen: Optical shielding of cold collisions in blue-detuned near-resonant optical lattices
Phys. Rev. A 66, 013401 (2002) (9 pages).
M. Mackie, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: Mean-Field Theory of Feshbach-Resonant Interactions in 85-Rb Condensates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 180403 (2002) (4 pages).
J.-P. Martikainen, A. Collin, and K.-A. Suominen: Coreless vortex ground state of the rotating spinor condensate
Phys. Rev. A 66, 053604 (2002) (6 pages).
A.M. Ishkhanyan and K.-A. Suominen: New solutions of Heun's general equation
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, L81-L85 (2003).
E. Lundh, J.-P. Martikainen, and K.-A. Suominen: Vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates in time-dependent traps
Phys. Rev. A 67, 063604 (2003) (10 pages).
A. M. Ishkhanyan and K.-A. Suominen: Three-level models solvable in terms of the Clausen function
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 7331-7335 (2003).
H. Mäkelä, Y. Zhang, and K.-A. Suominen: Topological defects in spinor condensates
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 8555-8564 (2003).
M. Mackie, A. Collin, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: Density-optimized efficiency for magneto-optical production of a stable molecular
Bose-Einstein condensate
New J. Phys. 5, 110 (2003) (11 pages).
O. Dannenberg, M. Mackie, and K.-A. Suominen: Shortcut to a Fermi-Degenerate Gas of Molecules via Cooperative Association
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 210404 (2003) (4 pages).
E. Lundh, A. Collin, and K.-A. Suominen: Rotational States of Bose Gases with Attractive Interactions in Anharmonic Traps
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 070401 (2004) (4 pages).
M. Mackie, O. Dannenberg, J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: Raman photoassociation of Bose-Fermi mixtures and the subsequent prospects for atom-molecule Cooper pairing
Phys. Rev. A 69, 053614 (2004) (4 pages).
J. Javanainen, M. Kostrun, Y. Zheng, A. Carmichael, U. Shrestha, P. J. Meinel, M. Mackie, O. Dannenberg, and K.-A. Suominen: Collective Molecule Formation in a Degenerate Fermi Gas via a Feshbach Resonance
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 200402 (2004) (4 pages).
J. Piilo, E. Lundh, and K.-A. Suominen: Radiative collisional heating at the Doppler limit for laser-cooled magnesium atoms
Phys. Rev. A 70, 013410 (2004) (5 pages).
M. Mackie, K. Härkönen, A. Collin, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: Improved efficiency of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Phys. Rev. A 70, 013614 (2004) (8 pages).
M. Mackie, O. Dannenberg, J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: New Directions in Degenerate Dipolar Molecules via Collective Association
Eur. Phys. J. D 31, 273-282 (2004).
A. Collin, E. Lundh, and K.-A. Suominen: Center-of-mass rotation and vortices in an attractive Bose gas
Phys. Rev. A 71, 023613 (2005) (8 pages).
J. Piilo and K.-A. Suominen: Cold collisions in dissipative optical lattices
J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 7, R37-R52 (2005).
Y. Zhang, H. Mäkelä, and K.-A. Suominen: Non-Abelian Topological Excitations in Spinor Condensates
Chinese Phys. Lett. 22, 536-538 (2005).
S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Zeno--anti-Zeno crossover driven by environment induced decoherence
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 130402 (2006) (4 pages).
J. Piilo, E. Lundh, and K.-A. Suominen: Cold collisions in strong laser fields: partial wave analysis of magnesium collisions
Eur. Phys. J. D 40, 211-222 (2006).
K. Härkönen, O. Kärki, and K.-A. Suominen: Tailoring of motional states in double-well potentials by time-dependent processes
Phys. Rev. A 74, 043404 (2006) (9 pages).
J. Piilo, S. Maniscalco, and K.-A. Suominen: Quantum Brownian motion for periodic coupling to an Ohmic bath
Phys. Rev. A 75, 032105 (2007) (6 pages).
H. Mäkelä and K.-A. Suominen: The ground states of spin-3 Bose-Einstein condensates for conserved magnetization
Phys. Rev. A 75, 033610 (2007) (8 pages).
H. Mäkelä and K.-A. Suominen: Inert states of spin-S systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190408 (2007) (4 pages).
M. Scala, B. Militello, A. Messina, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Cavity losses for the dissipative Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian beyond rotating wave approximation
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 14527-14536 (2007).
M. Scala, B. Militello, A. Messina, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Population trapping due to cavity losses
Phys. Rev. A 77, 043827 (2008) (4 pages).
J. Piilo, S. Maniscalco, K. Härkönen, and K.-A. Suominen: Non-Markovian Quantum Jumps
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180402 (2008) (4 pages).
A. M. Ishkhanyan, B. Joulakian, and K.-A. Suominen: Two strong nonlinearity regimes in cold molecule formation
Eur. Phys. J. D 48, 397-404 (2008).
A. M. Ishkhanyan, R. Sokhoyan, B. Joulakian, and K.-A. Suominen: Rosen-Zener model in cold molecule formation
Opt. Commun. 282, 218-226 (2009).
F. Francica, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, F. Plastina, and K.-A. Suominen: Off-resonant entanglement generation in a lossy cavity
Phys. Rev. A 79, 032310 (2009) (10 pages).
L. Mazzola, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and B. M. Garraway: Sudden death and sudden birth of entanglement in common structured reservoirs
Phys. Rev. A 79, 042302 (2009) (4 pages).
J. Paavola, J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and S. Maniscalco: Environment-dependent dissipation in quantum Brownian motion
Phys. Rev. A 79, 052120 (2009) (10 pages).
J. Piilo, K. Härkönen, S. Maniscalco, and K.-A. Suominen: Open system dynamics with non-Markovian quantum jumps
Phys. Rev. A 79, 062112 (2009) (17 pages).
L. Mazzola, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and B. M. Garraway: Pseudomodes as an effective description of memory: Non-Markovian dynamics of two-state systems in structured reservoirs
Phys. Rev. A 80, 012104 (2009) (5 pages).
S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Non-Markovian weak coupling limit of quantum Brownian motion
Eur. Phys. J. D 55, 181-187 (2009).
A. Ishkhanyan, B. Joulakian, and K.-A. Suominen: Variational ansatz for the nonlinear Landau-Zener problem for cold atom association
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42, 221002 (2009) (5 pages).
L. Mazzola, S. Maniscalco, K.-A. Suominen, and B. M. Garraway: Reservoir cross-over in entanglement dynamics
Quantum Inf. Process. 8, 577-585 (2009).
Preprints/articles being processed
R. Vasile, H. Makela, and K.-A. Suominen:
Interferometry using spinor Bose-Einstein condensates arXiv:0812.0499 [quant-ph]
L. Mazzola, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen:
Exact dynamics of entanglement and entropy in structured environments arXiv:0904.2857 [quant-ph]
A. Ishkhanyan, R. Sokhoyan, K.-A. Suominen, C. Leroy, and H.-R. Jauslin:
Quadratic-nonlinear Landau-Zener transition for association of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with inter-particle elastic interactions included arXiv:0911.0456 [cond-mat.quant-gas]
Dissertation publications
K.-A. Suominen: The Landau-Zener linear crossing problem and
non-adiabatic transitions
Report Series in Theoretical Physics HU-TFT-IR-90-2,
Helsinki University Press 1990 (Licentiate thesis). ISBN 951-45-5345-4.
K.-A. Suominen: Time dependent two-state models and wave packet dynamics
Report Series in Theoretical Physics HU-TFT-IR-92-1,
Helsinki University Press 1992 (Ph.D. thesis). ISBN 951-45-6060-4.
Conference proceedings (technical digests etc. booklets excluded)
B.M. Garraway, K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm: Wavepacket effects on laser-induced level crossings
in Proceedings of the International Workshop:
Light Induced Kinetic Effects on Atoms, Ions and Molecules, 2.-5.5.1990,
Elba, Italy, eds. L. Moi, S. Gozzini, C. Gabbanini, E. Arimondo and F. Strumia,
ETS Editrice, Pisa, Italy, 1991, pp. 129-138.
P. Jungner, B. Ståhlberg, T. Fellman,
K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm: Laser-induced dispersion in a Neon three-level system
in Tenth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Font-Romeu,
France 17.-21.6.1991, eds. M. Ducloy, E. Giacobino and G. Camy,
World Scientific,
Singapore, 1992, pp. 406-407.
K.-A. Suominen, B.M. Garraway and S. Stenholm: Wavepackets in laser induced level crossings
in Tenth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Font-Romeu,
France 17.-21.6.1991, eds. M. Ducloy, E. Giacobino and G. Camy,
World Scientific,
Singapore, 1992, pp. 420-421.
S. Stenholm, K.-A. Suominen and B.M. Garraway: Laser-induced wave packet motion in molecules
in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Laser Applications
in Life Sciences: Laser Spectroscopy of Biomolecules,
Jyväskylä, Finland, September 7-11, 1992,
ed. J.E.I. Korppi-Tommola, SPIE Proceeding series, vol. 1921, pp. 40-46.
M.J. Holland, K.-A. Suominen, and K. Burnett: Theory of interaction between laser cooled atoms
in Quantum Optics VI -- Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on
Quantum Optics, Rotorua, New Zealand, January 24-28, 1994, eds. D.F. Walls and
J.D. Harvey, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, pp. 59-67.
A. Barenco, A. Ekert, G.M. Palma, and K.-A. Suominen: Quantum computation
in Coherence and Quantum Optics VII, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. 7.-10.6.1995,
eds. J.H. Eberly, L. Mandel, and E. Wolf, Plenum Press, New York, 1996,
pp. 113-122.
S. Stenholm and K.-A. Suominen: The wave packet - a universal quantum object
in Proceedings of the Fifth Central-European Workshop on Quantum Optics,
Prague, Czech Republic, April 25-26, 1997,
Acta Physica Slovaca 47, 251-258 (1997).
A.K. Ekert, G.M. Palma, and K.-A. Suominen: Decoherence: Entanglement between qubits and environment
in The Physics of Quantum Information, eds. D. Bouwmeester, A. Ekert, and A. Zeilinger,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, pp. 222-227.
K.-A. Suominen, M. Machholm, and P.S. Julienne: Cold collisions between laser-cooled magnesium atoms
in Proceedings of the 32nd EGAS meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4-7 July, 2000,
Physica Scripta T95, 58-61 (2001).
B.M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen: Robustness of coherent control with light induced potentials
Fortschr. d. Physik 51, 128-134 (2003).
M. Mackie, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen: Role of Molecular Dissociation in Feshbach-Interacting 85Rb Condensates
in Interactions in Ultracold Gases: From Atoms to Molecules (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003),
eds. M. Weidemueller and C. Zimmermann, pp. 426-434.
S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for the damped harmonic oscillator
in "Noise and Fluctuations in Photonics, Quantum Optics, and Communications", ed. L. Cohen, Proc. of SPIE 6603, 660327-1 (2007).
M. Scala, B. Militello, A. Messina, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, and K.-A. Suominen: Non-Markovian dynamics of cavity losses
Proceedings of Advances in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information with atoms and photons, 19-23 May 2008, Turin, Italy
Int. J. Quant. Inf. 7, 41-47 (2009).
Other scientific publications and edited works
Y. Zhang, H. Mäkelä and K.-A. Suominen: Topological defects in ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic and cyclic spinor condensates - a homotopy theory
in "Bosons, Ferromagnetism and Crystal Growth Research", pp. 57-78, ed. E. D. Seifer, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2007
O. Kärki, P. Lahti, and K.-A. Suominen (eds.):
Proceedings of the XLII Annual Conference of the Finnish Physical Society
March 27-29, 2008, Turku, Finland
Report Series in Physics, University of Turku, Ser. L 31
ISSN 0788-9305, ISBN 978-951-29-3515-4, Uniprint, Turku, 2008
332 pages.
Popular science articles in English
B.M. Garraway, S. Stenholm and K.-A. Suominen: Adventures in the wave packet land
Physics World 6 (April 1993) 46-51.
K. Burnett and K.-A. Suominen: Collision course for atomic clocks
Physics World 7 (November 1994) 27-28.
K. Burnett, P. Julienne, P. Lett, and K.-A. Suominen: Cold atoms see the light
Physics World 8 (October 1995) 42-47.
Popular science articles and other works in Finnish
K.-A. Suominen: Aqua 86 - tiedekeskuksen esimakua
Satakunnan Kansa, 25.5.1986, 18.
K.-A. Suominen: Pallosalama - totta vai harhaa?
Satakunnan Kansa, 19.7.1988, 3.
K.-A. Suominen: Fuusioenergian uusi tuleminen?
Satakunnan Kansa, 12.4.1989, 11.