Stimulated Raman Adiabatic passage with a Cooper Pair Box

The rapid experimental progress in the field of superconducting nanocircuits gives rise to an increasing quest for advanced quantum-control techniques for these macroscopically coherent systems., Here we demonstrate theoretically that stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) should be possible with the quantronium setup of a Cooper-pair box. The scheme appears to be robust against decoherence and should be realizable even with the existing technology. STIRAP can be applied to generate single-phonon states of a resonator by vacuum-stimulated adiabatic passage with the superconducting nanocircuit coupled to the resonator.