An efficient computational method for the optimal control of higher dimensional quantum systems

Abstract

The process of obtaining solutions to optimal control problems via mesh based techniques suffers from the well known problem of the curse of dimensionality. This issue is especially severe in quantum systems whose dimensions grow exponentially with the number of interacting elements (qubits) that they contain. In this article we develop a modification of recently introduced curse-of-dimensionality-free max-plus techniques, to the control of quantum systems. This method yields a more manageable growth that is related to the cardinality of the control set. Its efficacy is demonstrated by obtaining an approximate solution to a previously intractable problem on a 2 qubit system.