Efficient algorithms for the laboratory discovery of optimal quantum controls.
The laboratory closed-loop optimal control of quantum phenomena, expressed as minimizing a suitable cost functional, is currently implemented through an optimization algorithm coupled to the experimental apparatus. In practice, the most commonly used search algorithms are variants of genetic algorithms. As an alternative choice, a direct search deterministic algorithm is proposed in this paper. For the simple simulations studied here, it outperforms the existing approaches. An additional algorithm is introduced in order to reveal some properties of the cost functional landscape.
INRIA Rocquencourt, MICMAC project, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. gabriel.turinici@inria.fr
Gabriel
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Turinici
Claude
C
Le Bris
Herschel
H
Rabitz