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Comment on "Control landscapes are almost always trap free: a geometric assessment"

Quantum Physics 2018-11-06 v1

Abstract

We analyze a recent claim that almost all closed, finite dimensional quantum systems have trap-free (i.e., free from local optima) landscapes (B. Russell et.al. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50, 205302 (2017)). We point out several errors in the proof which compromise the authors' conclusion. Interested readers are highly encouraged to take a look at the "rebuttal" (see Ref. [1]) of this comment published by the authors of the criticized work. This "rebuttal" is a showcase of the way the erroneous and misleading statements under discussion will be wrapped up and injected in their future works, such as R. L. Kosut et.al, arXiv:1810.04362 [quant-ph] (2018).

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@article{arxiv.1811.01416,
  title  = {Comment on "Control landscapes are almost always trap free: a geometric assessment"},
  author = {Dmitry V. Zhdanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01416},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure