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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Analytic Solutions to Coherent Control of the Dirac Equation
Andre G Campos1, Renan Cabrera1, Herschel A Rabitz1
1Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Abstract:
A simple framework for Dirac spinors is developed that parametrizes admissible quantum dynamics and also analytically constructs electromagnetic fields, obeying Maxwell's equations, which yield a desired evolution. In particular, we show how to achieve dispersionless rotation and translation of wave packets. Additionally, this formalism can handle control interactions beyond electromagnetic. This work reveals unexpected flexibility of the Dirac equation for control applications, which may open new prospects for quantum technologies.
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