2006/06/05 by Alexander Pechen, Herschel Rabitz · 2 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.73.062102
published as Phys. Rev. A 73, 062102 (2006)
openalex publication_date 2006/06/05 · arxiv created 2006/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A nonequilibrium, generally time-dependent, environment whose form is deduced by optimal learning control is shown to provide a means for incoherent manipulation of quantum systems. Incoherent control by the environment (ICE) can serve to steer a system from an initial state to a target state, either mixed or in some cases pure, by exploiting dissipative dynamics. Implementing ICE with either incoherent radiation or a gas as the control is explicitly considered, and the environmental control is characterized by its distribution function. Simulated learning control experiments are performed with simple illustrations to find the shape of the optimal nonequilibrium distribution function that best affects the posed dynamical objectives.