Achieving robust and high-fidelity quantum control via spectral phase optimization

Abstract

Achieving high-fidelity control of quantum systems is of fundamental importance in physics, chemistry and quantum information sciences. However, the successful implementation of a high-fidelity quantum control scheme also requires robustness against control field fluctuations. Here, we demonstrate a robust optimization method for control of quantum systems by optimizing the spectral phase of an ultrafast laser pulse, which is accomplished in the framework of frequency domain quantum optimal control theory. By incorporating a filtering function of frequency into the optimization algorithm, our numerical simulations in an abstract two-level quantum system as well as in a three-level atomic rubidium show that the optimization procedure can be enforced to search optimal solutions while achieving remarkable robustness against the control field fluctuations, providing an efficient approach to optimize the spectral phase of the ultrafast laser pulse to achieve a desired final quantum state of the system.

17 pages, 8 figures

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