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Thursday, November 08, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Postdoc Seminar

Cooling through optimal control of quantum evolution

Armin Rahmanisisan
T-4 and CNLS

Nonadiabatic unitary evolution with tailored time-dependent Hamiltonians can prepare systems of cold atomic gases with various desired properties. For a system of two one-dimensional quasicondensates coupled with a time-varying tunneling amplitude, we show that the optimal protocol, for maximizing any figure of merit in a given time, is bang-bang, i.e., the coupling alternates between only two values through a sequence of sudden quenches. Minimizing the energy of one of the quasicondensates with such nonadiabatic protocols, and then decoupling it at the end of the process, can result in effective cooling beyond the current state of the art. Thanks,

Host: Kipton Barros, T-4 and CNLS