2017/05/31 by S. González-Resines, D. Guéry-Odelin, A. Tobalina +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #physics.app-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.8.054008
published as Phys. Rev. Applied 8, 054008 (2017) · 9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2017/09/20 · arxiv updated 2017/11/15
By applying invariant-based inverse engineering in the small-oscillations regime, we design the time dependence of the control parameters of an overhead crane (trolley displacement and rope length), to transport a load between two positions at different heights with minimal final energy excitation for a microcanonical ensemble of initial conditions. The analogies between ion transport in multisegmented traps or neutral atom transport in moving optical lattices and load manipulation by cranes opens a route for a useful transfer of techniques among very different fields.