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Kontrollierbarkeitsaspekte der Lindblad-Kossakowski Master-Gleichung : Ein Lie-theoretischer Ansatz

Kurniawan, Indra

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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One main task, which is considerably important in many applications in quantum control, is to explore the possibilities of steering a quantum system from an initial state to a target state. This thesis focuses on fundamental control-theoretical issues of quantum dynamics described by the Lindblad-Kossakowski master equation which arises as a bilinear control system on some underlying real vector spaces, e.g controllability aspects and the structure of reachable sets. Based on Lie-algebraic methods from nonlinear control theory, the thesis presents a unified approach to control problems of finite dimensional closed and open quantum systems. In particular, a simplified treatment for controllability of closed quantum systems as well as new accessibility results for open quantum systems are obtained. The main tools to derive the results are the well-known classifications of all matrix Lie groups which act transitively on Grassmann manifolds, and respectively, on real vector spaces without the origin. It is also shown in this thesis that accessibiity of the Lindblad-Kossakowski master equation is a generic property. Moreover, based on the theoretical accessibility results, an algorithm is developed to decide when the Lindblad-Kossakowski master equation is accessible.

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