The effect of quantum dispersion on laboratory feedback optimal control
G. J. Tóth, A. Lõrincz, H. Rabitz
Submitted to Journal of Modern Optics
(1997)
Abstract
The effect of quantum dispersion (i.e., a multitude
of quantum states corresponding to each value of an
observable) on laboratory feedback optimal control
is studied. It is shown by numerical and
analytical means that including the variance of the
observable in the objective functional as well as
the presence of modest noise in the controls can
steer the system into a low-variance quantum state
or, if possible, into an eigenstate of the
observable.
