ar X iv : 0 80 8 . 18 40 v 1 [ m at h . N A ] 1 3 A ug 2 00 8 Beyond bilinear controllability : applications to quantum control

Quantum control is traditionally expressed through bilinear models and their associated Lie algebra controllability criteria. But, the first order approximation are not always sufficient and higher order developpements are used in recent works. Motivated by these applications, we give in this paper a criterion that applies to situations where the evolution operator is expressed as sum of possibly non-linear real functionals of the same control that multiplies some time independent (coupling) operators. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 34H05, 93B05; Secondary 35Q40.