Fast-kick-off monotonically convergent algorithm for searching optimal control fields

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2011-09-07Author
Liao, Sheng-Lun
Ho, Tak-San
Chu, Shih-I
Rabitz, Herschel
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American Physical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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This Rapid Communication presents a fast-kick-off search algorithm for quickly finding optimal control fields in the state-to-state transition probability control problems, especially those with poorly chosen initial control fields. The algorithm is based on a recently formulated monotonically convergent scheme [T.-S. Ho and H. Rabitz, Phys. Rev. E 82, 026703 (2010)]. Specifically, the local temporal refinement of the control field at each iteration is weighted by a fractional inverse power of the instantaneous overlap of the backward-propagating wave function, associated with the target state and the control field from the previous iteration, and the forward-propagating wave function, associated with the initial state and the concurrently refining control field. Extensive numerical simulations for controls of vibrational transitions and ultrafast electron tunneling show that the new algorithm not only greatly improves the search efficiency but also is able to attain good monotonic convergence quality when further frequency constraints are required. The algorithm is particularly effective when the corresponding control dynamics involves a large number of energy levels or ultrashort control pulses.
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.031401.
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Liao, Sheng-Lun., Ho, Tak-San., Chu, Shih-I., Rabitz, Herschel. "Fast-kick-off monotonically convergent algorithm for searching optimal control fields." Phys. Rev. A 84, 031401(R) – Published 7 September 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.031401.
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