Higher-order traps for some strongly degenerate quantum control systems

DOI10.4213/RM10069EMaRDI QIDQ6072004zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris O. Volkov, A. N. Pechen

Publication date 29 November 2023

Published in Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03355, http://mathnet.ru/eng/rm10069

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Ion traps (78A37) Quantum control (81Q93)

Abstract: Quantum control is necessary for a variety of modern quantum technologies as it allows to optimally manipulate quantum systems. An important problem in quantum control is to establish whether the control objective functional has trapping behaviour or no, namely if it has or no traps -- controls from which it is difficult to escape by local search optimization methods. Higher order traps were previously introduced in [A. N. Pechen, D. J. Tannor, "Are there traps in quantum control landscapes?", Phys. Rev. Lett., 106 (2011), 120402], where 3-rd order traps were found. In this note we show that traps of arbitrarily high order exist for controllable quantum systems with special symmetry in the Hamiltonian.

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