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Introduction to coherent optimal control

Two main approaches to the control of molecules using wave interference in quantum systems have been proposed and developed in different languages . The first approach (Tannor and Rice 1985 Tannor et al. 1986) uses pairs of ultrashort coherent pulses to manipulate quantum mechanical wave packets in excited electronic states of molecules. These laser pulses are shorter than the coherence lifetime and the inverse rate of the vibrational-energy redistribution in molecules. An ultrashort pulse excites vibrational wave packets, which evolve freely until the desired spacing of the excited molecular bond is reached at some specified instant of time on a subpicosecond timescale. The second approach is based on the wave properties of molecules as quantum systems and uses quantum interference between various photoexcitation pathways (Brumer and Shapiro 1986). Shaped laser pulses can be used to control this interference with a view to achieving the necessary final quantum state of the molecule. The probability of production of the necessary excited quantum state and the required final product depends, for example, on the phase difference between two CW lasers. Both these methods are based on the existence of multiple interfering pathways from the initial [Pg.225]

A detailed consideration and bibliography of this rapidly developing and very interesting field of scientific exploration can be found in a monograph (Rice and Zhao 2000) and a number of reviews (Tannor and Rice 1988 Brixner et al. 2001a Shapiro and Brumer 2003), a comprehensive bibliography of early work being provided by Manz (1997). [Pg.226]


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