Phenomenon of a stronger trapping behaviour in $\Lambda$-type quantum systems with symmetry

Abstract

$\Lambda$, $V$, $\Xi$ (ladder), and other three-level quantum systems with one forbidden transition (referred here as $\Lambda$-type systems) play an important role in quantum physics. Various applications require manipulation of such systems using as control shaped laser field. In this work, we study how degeneracy of energy states or of Bohr frequencies in these systems affects the efficiency or difficulty of finding optimal shape of the control field. For this, we adopt the notion of higher order traps, which was introduced in [A.N. Pechen and D.J. Tannor, Are there traps in quantum control landscapes? Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 106}, 120402 (2011)], where second/third order traps were discovered for $\Lambda$-atom with one forbidden transition and with non-degenerate energy levels. We theoretically study control of such systems with and without degeneracy in their eigenstates and Bohr frequencies, and investigate numerically using GRAPE and l-BFGS algorithms how this degeneracy influences on the efficiency of optimizing the control laser field. We find that the degeneracy of the Bohr frequencies in the $\Xi$ system, which makes the system energy levels symmetrically distributed, leads to the appearance of a seventh order trap with a more significant attracting domain resulting in a more difficult optimization, while the degeneracy of energy states in generic $\Lambda$-type systems does not lead to an increase of the order of the zero control trap compared to the non-degenerate case. We also find that when not only the Bohr frequencies are degenerate in the system $\Xi$, but also the dipole moments for the two allowed transitions coincide (in this case $\Xi$ system is not controllable), then true traps arise in the quantum control landscape. In particular, the constant zero control becomes a trap.

arXiv comment26 pages, 7 figures. Published version which is a significant expansion of the original preprint. Proof of existence of trap for an uncontrollable Xi-system is added in Sec. 5. Numerical analysis has been significanly extended in Sec. 6

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