Optimally Controlled Dynamics of One Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator: Linear Dipole Function and Quadratic Penalty

This work deals with the optimal control of one dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator under an external field characterized by a linear dipole function. The penalty term is taken as kinetic energy. The objective operator whose expectation value is desired to get a prescribed target value is taken as the square of the position operator. The dipole function hypothesis in the external field is valid only for weak fields otherwise hyperpolarizability terms which contain powers of the field amplitude higher than 1 should be considered. The weak field assumption enables us to develop a first order perturbation approach to get approximate solutions to the wave and costate equations. These solutions contain the field amplitude and another unknown, so-called deviation constant, through some certain integrals. By inserting these expressions into the connection equation which functionally relates the field amplitude to the wave and costate function it is possible to produce an integral equation. Same manipulations on the objective equation results in an algebraic equation to determine the deviation parameter. The algebraic deviation equation produces incompatibility which can be relaxed by including second order perturbative term of wave function. The integral and algebraic equations mentioned above are asymptotically solved. Their global solutions are left to future works since the main purpose of this work is to obtain the so-called field and deviation equations. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)