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New Families of Single—Qubit Control Fields: An Algorithm

Marco Enríquez, Alfonso Jaimes-Nájera

Published Apr 1, 2020• 0 citations

Abstract

Abstract The dynamics of a two-level system interacting with a new class of analytically solvable driving fields is analyzed. Such fields are obtained using an inverse-engineering approach, which allows to exactly factorize the correspondent time-evolution operator via the Wei-Norman theorem. This technique is presented as an algorithm and using an example we show that the free parameters involved can be used to tune some aspects of the dynamics on demand such as the atomic population inversion.

DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1540/1/012019

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