Authors:
Herschel Rabitz,
Volume: 1, Page 937 Paper number 2802
Abstract:
Most quantum systems considered for control by external fields are
plagued by a serious lack of complete information about the underlying
Hamiltonian. Traditional feedback control techniques are generally
not appropriate due to the latter problem, as well as the ultrafast
nature of typical quantum dynamics phenomena and the fact that observations
of the quantum system will inevitably lead to a disturbance which may
often be contradictory to the desired control. In contrast, learning
control techniques have a special role to play in the manipulation
of quantum dynamics phenomena. The unique capabilities of quantum
systems making them amenable to learning control are (a) the ability
to have very large numbers of identical systems for submission to control,
(b) the high duty cycle of laboratory laser controls, and (c) the ability
to observe the impact of trial controls at ultrafast time scales.
Various learning algorithms have been proposed to guide this control
process. The present paper will discuss these proposals, as well as
some new perspectives.
Authors:
Tzyh-Jong Tarn,
John W. Clark,
Dennis G. Lucarelli,
Volume: 1, Page 943 Paper number 2803
Abstract:
The property of controllability of quantum systems is revisited. In
the case of a system having this property, couplings to external agents
are available whose adjustment can guide the state to any chosen target
on a suitably defined manifold (or arbitrarily close to any such target)
at any chosen time. With due consideration to unbounded operators
corresponding to physical observables possessing continuous spectra,
sufficient conditions for controllability based on Lie-algebraic arguments
are obtained. The results are not limited to finite-dimensional systems,
nor to infinite-dimensional systems with discrete spectra. The applicability
of the results to systems with both bound and scattering states is
demonstrated for the case of the one-dimensional Poschl--Teller potential.
Attention is also directed to transitivity of the pertinent Lie algebra
of a system without drift as a necessary and sufficient condition for
controllability.
Authors:
Andrew Doherty,
John Doyle,
Hideo Mabuchi,
Kurt Jacobs,
Salman Habib,
Volume: 1, Page 949 Paper number 2804
Abstract:
Recent progress in quantum physics has made it possible to perform
experiments in which individual quantum systems are monitored and manipulated
in real time. The advent of such new technical capabilities provides
strong motivation for the development of theoretical and experimental
methodologies for quantum feedback control. The availability of such
methods would enable radically new approaches to experimental physics
in the quantum realm. Likewise, the investigation of quantum feedback
control will introduce crucial new considerations to control theory,
such as the uniquely quantum phenomena of entanglement and measurement
back-action. The extension of established analysis techniques from
control theory into the quantum domain may also provide new insight
into the dynamics of complex quantum systems. We anticipate that the
successful formulation of an input-output approach to the analysis
and reduction of large quantum systems could have very general applications
in non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics and in the nascent
field quantum information theory.
Authors:
Viswanath Ramakrishna,
Kathryn L. Flores,
Herschel Rabitz,
Raimund J. Ober,
Volume: 1, Page 955 Paper number 2805
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is fourfold: I) First, the use of finite
dimensional models in quantum control is outlined; ii) next, notions
such as universality of quantum logic gates and the hard pulse approximation
in NMR spectroscopy is related to controllability; iii) recent results,
of the authors, on constructive constrained controllability for systems
with drift on the unitary groups are sketched; and iv) finally, a new
decomposition of SU(2) is presented and used to illustrate how problems
caused by periodicity arguments, to account for drift may be circumvented.
Authors:
Bogdan Mielnik,
David J. Fernández C.,
Volume: 1, Page 961 Paper number 2806
Abstract:
The control operations on a charged non-relativistic particle by variable
external fields are examined. Contrasting with the static theory, the
effective Hamiltonians for the sequencies of field pulses have not
necessarily lower bounds. In particular, the Floquet systems of rotating
fields can generate the harmonic oscillators turned upside down, with
infinite ladders of negative levels. The Floquet Hamiltonians reduced
to pure negative kinetic energy can be also achieved; they permit to
invert the free evolution of the Schrödinger's particle, opening
new perspectives in the control techniques. The manipulation Hamiltonians
without lower bounds imply instability at the level of the quantum
field theory.
Authors:
Domenico D'Alessandro,
Volume: 1, Page 967 Paper number 1074
Abstract:
Algorithms for the control of quantum mechanical systems are presented
which are based on decompositions of Lie groups. The derived control
laws drive the state of two and four level systems to any desired final
configuration. The algorithms for the two-level case allow the use
of an arbitrarily bounded control. These algorithms can be used to
drive the evolution of quantum bits in the implementation of quantum
computers.
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