Optimal STIRAP shortcuts using the spin to spring mapping

Abstract

We derive shortcuts to adiabaticity maximizing population transfer in a three-level $\Lambda$ quantum system, using the spin to spring mapping to formulate the corresponding optimal control problem on the simpler system of a classical driven dissipative harmonic oscillator. We solve the spring optimal control problem and obtain analytical expressions for the impulses, the durations of the zero control intervals and the singular control, which are the elements composing the optimal pulse sequence. We also derive suboptimal solutions for the spring problem, one with less impulses than the optimal and others with smoother polynomial controls. We then apply the solutions derived for the spring system to the original system, and compare the population transfer efficiency with that obtained for the original system using numerical optimal control. For all dissipation rates used, the efficiency of the optimal spring control approaches that of the numerical optimal solution for longer durations, with the approach accomplished earlier for smaller decay rates. The efficiency achieved with the suboptimal spring control with less impulses is very close to that of the optimal spring control in all cases, while that obtained with polynomial controls lies below, and this is the price paid for not using impulses, which can quickly build a nonzero population in the intermediate state. The analysis of the optimal solution for the classical driven dissipative oscillator is not restricted to the system at hand but can also be applied in the transport of a coherent state trapped in a moving harmonic potential and the transport of a mesoscopic object in stochastic thermodynamics.

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