Inverse control of quantum-mechanical systems: Some application studies

Garng M. Huang, Peter Gross, Harjinder Singh, Herschel Rabitz, Kenneth Mease

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Abstract

We apply our invertibility of quantum mechanical systems concept to design open loop controls of molecular systems. The inverse quantum-mechanical control of molecules is studied using the equation of motion for the expectation value of an operator. With this method a requisite external field is obtained to exactly track a prescribed molecular objective expectation value as a function of time. Applications to diatomic molecules are formulated. While the method is directly applicable as a test of physical intuition, it can in principle be used to design fields for specific objectives including reactive selectivity. Results are presented for energy tracking in the hydrogen fluoride molecular system. The numerical calculations show that seemingly benign objective tracks may give rise to singularities in the field. However, these singularities do not present problems in the evolution of the dynamical quantities and instead provide useful hints for designing robust fields.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages1930-1935
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)0780312988
StatePublished - 1993
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 2 (of 4) - San Antonio, TX, USA
Duration: Dec 15 1993Dec 17 1993

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2
ISSN (Print)0191-2216

Other

OtherProceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 2 (of 4)
CitySan Antonio, TX, USA
Period12/15/9312/17/93

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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