Optimal control landscape for the generation of unitary transformations with constrained dynamics

Michael Hsieh,1,2 Rebing Wu,5 Herschel Rabitz,6 and Daniel Lidar1,2,3,4 1Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 2Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 4Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 5Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China 6Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA (Received 19 May 2010; published 30 June 2010)