Modern Perspective on Coherent Control

Paul W. Brumer, Moshe Shapiro

Javed Mohammad

This paper presents a perspective-based model explaining why modern human experience feels increasingly accelerated despite time itself remaining unchanged. It argues that continuous conscious selection of moments—rather than natural reception—produces temporal compression, reaction-based cognition, and an illusion of control. Within the framework of Javed’s Quantum Thought, the paper clarifies the concept of collapse not as a causal outcome of human intention, but as a perceptual visibility that emerges when perception stabilizes through acceptance. Human intention does not create or alter reality; it determines perceptual position within an already complete structure. Using a cause–effect model grounded in the concept of divine command (Kun), the paper explains why reality cannot be replicated, accelerated, or controlled through choice, despite persistent appearances of agency. The discussion integrates temporal perception, selection-based living, hidden parameters, and the limits of replication, offering a coherent explanation for temporal compression and perceptual collapse without attributing creative power to human decision.

Kenji Ohmori

Coherent control is based on optical manipulation of the amplitudes and phases of wave functions. It is expected to be a key technique to develop novel quantum technologies such as bond-selective chemistry and quantum computing, and to better understand the quantum worldview founded on wave-particle duality. We have developed high-precision coherent control by imprinting optical amplitudes and phases of ultrashort laser pulses on the quantum amplitudes and phases of molecular wave functions. The history and perspective of coherent control and our recent achievements are described.

Víctor S. Batista, Paul W. Brumer

Andrew M. Weiner

Artem Kovalenko, D. Babjak, Adam Lešundák +7 more

The optical interference constitutes a paramount resource in modern physics. At the scale of individual atoms and photons, it is a diverse concept that causes different coherent phenomena. We present the experimental characterization of both coherent and statistical properties of light emitted from ensembles of trapped ions increasing with a number of contributing phase-incoherent independent atomic particles ranging from a single to up to several hundreds. It conclusively demonstrates how super-Poissonian quantum statistics non-trivially arises purely from the finite number of indistinguishable single-photon emitters in the limit of a single detection mode. The achieved new optical emission regime in which these independent atoms contribute coherently to the super-Poissonian statistics provides a new perspective on the emergence of optical coherence at the atomic scale and constitutes a unique toolbox for its generation and control at the most microscopic level.