TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal control of molecular motion for δ-target probability density
AU - Dubov, Valery
AU - Rabitz, Herschel
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge support from the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1995/3/24
Y1 - 1995/3/24
N2 - A new δ-target approach is presented to solve the problem of steering a molecular system to a desirable geometrical configuration by an electromagnetic field. The δ-target technique is shown to provide good control, and the advantages of the δ-target approach are analyzed. In particular, in the weak field limit the computational difficulties are considerably simplified: the control problem reduces to a task of propagating the δ-target wave function with the Hamiltonian of the molecular system independent of time. This simplification is of principal importance as it permits applications of optimal control theory to chemically interesting larger molecular systems.
AB - A new δ-target approach is presented to solve the problem of steering a molecular system to a desirable geometrical configuration by an electromagnetic field. The δ-target technique is shown to provide good control, and the advantages of the δ-target approach are analyzed. In particular, in the weak field limit the computational difficulties are considerably simplified: the control problem reduces to a task of propagating the δ-target wave function with the Hamiltonian of the molecular system independent of time. This simplification is of principal importance as it permits applications of optimal control theory to chemically interesting larger molecular systems.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00120-S
DO - 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00120-S
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001328836
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 235
SP - 309
EP - 315
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 3-4
ER -