IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.63, No.2, 518-524, 2018
The K-P Problem on Tensor Products of Lie Groups and Time-Optimal Control of n Quantum Bits With a Bounded Field
We use properties of sub-Riemannian K-P problems and the optimal synthesis on SU(2) to solve the time-optimal control of n noninteracting two-level quantum systems (qubits) controlled in parallel with a control field bounded in L-2 norm. Every qubit is controlled independently, but the total energy of the controls used is bounded. For this system, we describe the reachable set at every time. Moreover, we compute the diameter, that is, the worst-case minimum time. The mathematical problem is motivated by the control of two-level systems with different resonance frequencies, where the control fields are obtained from a single signal having bounded energy.
Keywords:Control systems on Lie groups;optimal control of quantum systems;sub-Riemannian geodesics;symmetry reduction