Abstract

We formulate the problem of efficient transport of a quantum particle trapped in a harmonic potential which can move with a bounded velocity, as a minimum-time problem on a linear system with bounded input. We completely solve the corresponding optimal control problem and obtain an interesting bang-bang solution, where the switching times are obtained from a transcendental equation. These results are expected to find applications in quantum information processing and atom interferometry.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6558800
Pages (from-to)733-738
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume59
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2014

Keywords

  • Optimal control
  • quantum control

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