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Accelerated Newton-Raphson GRAPE methods for optimal control

Optimization and Control 2022-08-19 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

A Hessian based optimal control method is presented in Liouville space to mitigate previously undesirable polynomial scaling of computation time. This new method, an improvement to the state-of-the-art Newton-Raphson GRAPE method, is derived with respect to two exact time-propagator derivative techniques: auxiliary matrix and ESCALADE methods. We observed that compared to the best current implementation of Newton-Raphson GRAPE method, for an ensemble of 2-level systems, with realistic conditions, the new auxiliary matrix and ESCALADE Hessians can be 4-200 and 70-600 times faster, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2207.09882,
  title  = {Accelerated Newton-Raphson GRAPE methods for optimal control},
  author = {David L. Goodwin and Mads Sloth Vinding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09882},
  year   = {2022}
}
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