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Quantum control theory and applications: A survey
This paper presents a survey on quantum control theory and applications from
a control systems perspective. Some of the basic concepts and main developments
(including open-loop control and closed-loop control) in quantum control theory
are reviewed. In the area of open-loop quantum control, the paper surveys the
notion of controllability for quantum systems and presents several control
design strategies including optimal control, Lyapunov-based methodologies,
variable structure control and quantum incoherent control. In the area of
closed-loop quantum control, the paper reviews closed-loop learning control and
several important issues related to quantum feedback control including quantum
filtering, feedback stabilization, LQG control and robust quantum control.Comment: 38 pages, invited survey paper from a control systems perspective,
some references are added, published versio
Sliding Mode Control of Two-Level Quantum Systems
This paper proposes a robust control method based on sliding mode design for
two-level quantum systems with bounded uncertainties. An eigenstate of the
two-level quantum system is identified as a sliding mode. The objective is to
design a control law to steer the system's state into the sliding mode domain
and then maintain it in that domain when bounded uncertainties exist in the
system Hamiltonian. We propose a controller design method using the Lyapunov
methodology and periodic projective measurements. In particular, we give
conditions for designing such a control law, which can guarantee the desired
robustness in the presence of the uncertainties. The sliding mode control
method has potential applications to quantum information processing with
uncertainties.Comment: 29 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Automatic
Lyapunov Stability Analysis for Invariant States of Quantum Systems
In this article, we propose a Lyapunov stability approach to analyze the
convergence of the density operator of a quantum system. In contrast to many
previously studied convergence analysis methods for invariant density operators
which use weak convergence, in this article we analyze the convergence of
density operators by considering the set of density operators as a subset of
Banach space. We show that the set of invariant density operators is both
closed and convex, which implies the impossibility of having multiple isolated
invariant density operators. We then show how to analyze the stability of this
set via a candidate Lyapunov operator.Comment: A version of this paper has been accepted at 56th IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control 201
Models and Feedback Stabilization of Open Quantum Systems
At the quantum level, feedback-loops have to take into account measurement
back-action. We present here the structure of the Markovian models including
such back-action and sketch two stabilization methods: measurement-based
feedback where an open quantum system is stabilized by a classical controller;
coherent or autonomous feedback where a quantum system is stabilized by a
quantum controller with decoherence (reservoir engineering). We begin to
explain these models and methods for the photon box experiments realized in the
group of Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize 2012). We present then these models and
methods for general open quantum systems.Comment: Extended version of the paper attached to an invited conference for
the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, August 13 - 21, 201
A discrete invitation to quantum filtering and feedback control
The engineering and control of devices at the quantum-mechanical level--such
as those consisting of small numbers of atoms and photons--is a delicate
business. The fundamental uncertainty that is inherently present at this scale
manifests itself in the unavoidable presence of noise, making this a novel
field of application for stochastic estimation and control theory. In this
expository paper we demonstrate estimation and feedback control of quantum
mechanical systems in what is essentially a noncommutative version of the
binomial model that is popular in mathematical finance. The model is extremely
rich and allows a full development of the theory, while remaining completely
within the setting of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces (thus avoiding the
technical complications of the continuous theory). We introduce discretized
models of an atom in interaction with the electromagnetic field, obtain
filtering equations for photon counting and homodyne detection, and solve a
stochastic control problem using dynamic programming and Lyapunov function
methods.Comment: 76 pages, 12 figures. A PDF file with high resolution figures can be
found at http://minty.caltech.edu/papers.ph
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