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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Foundations for cooperating with control noise in the manipulation of quantum dynamics
Feng Shuang1, Herschel Rabitz, Mark Dykman
1Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Abstract:
This paper develops the theoretical foundations for the ability of a control field to cooperate with noise in the manipulation of quantum dynamics. The noise enters as run-to-run variations in the control amplitudes, phases, and frequencies with the observation being an ensemble average over many runs as is commonly done in the laboratory. Weak field perturbation theory is developed to show that noise in the amplitude and frequency components of the control field can enhance the process of population transfer in a multilevel ladder system. The analytical results in this paper support the point that under suitable conditions an optimal field can cooperate with noise to improve the control outcome.
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