Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Quantum feedback control'

I study the rate at which information can be extracted from a finite-dimensional open quantum system using the quantum trajectory description of a continuous measurement. I derive the rate at which information is extracted for a measurement without any control; this sets the benchmark to which the subsequent control protocols are compared. Next I consider control protocols that increase the rate of information extraction. The first such protocol applies feedback so the state and the measurement basis are unbiased at all times. The use of unbiased bases means that this protocol is essentially quantum mechanical in nature. For observables with equally spaced eigenvalues, the “speed-up” in the information extraction afforded by unbiased basis feedback, is proportional to the square of the observed system’s Hilbert space. The second protocol considered optimally permutes the eigenvalues of the quantum state in the logical basis. As the measured observable and state commute at all times this protocol is essentially classical in nature. The speed-up provided by this protocol is also quadratic. The final protocol I consider is a new type of control. It merges open-loop quantum control and quantum filtering. This method also affords an improvement in the rate of information extraction.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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The prospect of a universal quantum computer is alluring, yet formidable. Smaller scale quantum information processing, however, has been demonstrated. Quantum networks, interlinking flying and stationary qubits, and linear optical quantum computing (LOQC) are both good candidates for scaling up such computations. A strongly coupled atom-cavity system is a promising approach for applications in these fields, both as a node in a quantum network, and as a source of photons for LOQC. This thesis demonstrates the versatile capabilities of an atom-cavity system comprising a single ⁸⁷Rb atom within a macroscopic high-finesse Fabry-Pérot cavity. It operates intermittently for periods of up to 100 μs, with single-photon repetition rates of 1 MHz and an intra-cavity production efficiency of up to 85%. Exploiting the long coherence time of around 500 ns, the photons are subdivided into d time bins, with arbitrary amplitudes and phases, thus encoding arbitrary qudits. High fidelity quantum logic is shown, operating a controlled-NOT gate integrated into a photonic chip with a classical fidelity of 95.9^+1.4_-1.7 %. Additionally, the generation of entanglement is verified and non-classical correlations between events separated by periods exceeding the travel time across the chip by three orders of magnitude are observed. Photonic quantum simulation is performed, using temporally encoded qudits to mimic the correlation statistics of both fermions and anyons, in addition to bosons. Finally measurement-based quantum feedback is demonstrated and used to actively control the routing of temporal qubits.

Quantum engineering has seen rapid growth in the past two decades. Physicists, mathematicians and engineers have been working in unison to control a number of diverse systems in the quantum regime. Quantum control involving feedback has become particularly topical, as using information gained from a system can lead to more stable operation of a control protocol. Quantum feedback can be split into two paradigms: measurement based feedback and coherent feedback. Although it is increasingly evident that retaining the coherence of the feedback signal provides an intrinsic advantage over measurement-based feedback, coherent feedback is still a new paradigm. In particular, there are a limited number of options for coherently estimating a state within a feedback loop. As a step towards better understanding and implementation of quantum feedback, this thesis reports on modelling, estimation and control of quantum systems. The first topic is physical realisability of a variety of quantum systems, especially finite level systems and their outgrowths. Bilinear quantum stochastic differential equations (QSDEs) have to be employed to characterise these systems, which is a significant complement to the previous work on linear QSDEs. In light of the fact that direct and indirect couplings play a vital role in quantum network and control, we also provide state-space models for different classes of coupled open quantum systems incorporating both bidirectional and directional interactions. The second topic is coherent observers and optimal filtering. It is well established that classically estimation using the Kalman filter can provide improved performance over direct feedback schemes, and similar demonstrations have been performed for measurement-based quantum feedback. In this thesis I present coherent observers, including least mean squares estimators, which are driven by the coherent output of a specified quantum plant and designed such that some subset of the observer and plant's expectation values converge in the asymptotic limit. Not only can estimators "observe" mean quantities of quantum plant, but also they can "estimate" quantum correlations such as entanglement. This is of much importance to coherent feedback design in the absence of measurement steps without loss of fidelity. Last but not least, several topics regarding stabilisation and control design of quantum systems are discussed in my thesis. To be specific, tools for quantum stability analysis (e.g. Lyapunov conditions) are provided. Both measurement-based feedback and coherent feedback control design are taken into account. A measurement-based optimal controller for opto-mechanical systems aimed at synchronising different mechanical modes is presented, which is application-oriented. Moreover, A general observer-based coherent feedback control framework is studied, and I demonstrate a pole-placement approach via coherent observers that can be applied to various scenarios.

Ces dernières années, les progrès réalisés dans le contrôle de l'interaction lumière-matière au niveau quantique ont conduit à de nombreuses avancées en optique quantique, en particulier dans l'étude de phénomènes quantiques fondamentaux, dans la conception de systèmes quantiques artificiels et dans les applications en information quantique. Il a notamment été possible d'augmenter considérablement l'intensité de l'interaction lumière-matière et de contrôler le couplage de systèmes quantiques à leur environnement, afin d'obtenir des états non conventionnels et fortement non classiques. Cependant, pour exploiter ces états quantiques en vue d'applications technologiques, il est crucial de pouvoir mesurer et contrôler ces systèmes avec précision. Dans ce contexte, ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'étude de nouveaux protocoles pour la mesure et le contrôle de systèmes quantiques dans lesquels des fortes interactions et des symétries particuliers conduisent à la génération d'états fortement non classiques. Nous nous intéressons dans un premier temps au régime de couplage ultra-fort de l'électrodynamique quantique en cavité (et de circuit). Plus précisément, l'état de fondamental n'est plus le vide standard, car il devient énergiquement favorable qu'il contienne des photons.Dans ce régime on peut même obtenir des chat de Schrödinger comme état fondamental.En revanche, pour assurer la conservation de l'énergie, les photons contenus dans ce vide exotique sont liés à la cavité et ne peuvent pas s'échapper dans l'environnement. Cela signifie qu'ils ne peuvent être mesurés par simple photodétection. Nous proposons dans ce travail un protocole spécialement conçu pour surmonter cette difficulté. Nous montrons qu'il est possible de déduire les propriétés photoniques de l'état fondamental à partir du déplacement de Lamb d'un système à deux niveaux auxiliaire.Les résonateurs optiques à paires de photons constituent une autre classe de systèmes dans lesquels la symétrie de parité conduit à des états quantiques non conventionnels. Grâce à "l'ingénierie de réservoir", il est aujourd'hui possible de contrôler l'interaction d'un système avec son environnement, de façon à le stabiliser dans des états quantiques particulièrement intéressants. En particulier, quand un résonateur (une cavité optique) est couplé à l'environnement par échange de paires de photons, il est possible de créer de chats de Schrödinger optiques dans la dynamique transitoire du système. Les corrélations quantiques de ces états sont par contre rapidement perdues en raison de la présence inévitable de dissipation à un photon. Protéger le système contre cette perturbation est le but du protocole de feedback basé sur la parité que nous présentons dans cette thèse
In recent years, the field of quantum optics has thrived thanks to the possibility of controlling light-matter interaction at the quantum level.This is relevant for the study of fundamental quantum phenomena, the generation of artificial quantum systems, and for quantum information applications.In particular, it has been possible to considerably increase the intensity of light-matter interaction and to shape the coupling of quantum systems to the environment, so to realise unconventional and highly nonclassical states.However, in order to exploit these quantum states for technological applications, the question of how to measure and control these systems is crucial.Our work is focused on proposing and exploring new protocols for the measurement and the control of quantum systems, in which strong interactions and peculiar symmetries lead to the generation of highly nonclassical states.The first situation that we consider is the ultrastrong coupling regime in cavity (circuit) quantum electrodynamics.In this regime, it becomes energetically favourable to have photons and atomic excitations in the ground state, that is no more represented by the standard vacuum.In particular, in case of parity symmetry, the ground state is given by a light-matter Schrödinger cat state.However, according to energy conservation, the photons contained in these exotic vacua are bound to the cavity, and cannot be emitted into the environment.This means that we can not explore and control them by simple photodetection.In our work we propose a protocol that is especially designed to overcome this issue.We show that we can infer the photonic properties of the ground state from the Lamb shift of an ancillary two-level system.Another class of systems in which the fundamental parity symmetry leads to very unconventional quantum states is given by two-photon driven-dissipative resonators.Thanks to the reservoir engineering, it is today possible to shape the interaction with the environment to stabilize the system in particularly interesting quantum states.When a resonator (an optical cavity) exchanges with the environment by pairs of photons, it has been possible to observe the presence of optical Schrödinger cat states in the transient dynamics of the system.However, the quantum correlations of these states quickly decays due to the unavoidable presence of one-photon dissipation.Protecting the system against this perturbation is the goal of the parity triggered feedback protocol that we present in this thesis

This thesis presents the theory of LQG (linear-quadratic-Gaussian) and Markovian feedback control for quantum systems. We devote Part I to a review of both classical and quantum feedback but with an emphasis on LQG and linear systems control. The language of classical stochastic control is that of probability theory and stochastic differential equations. Thus we first introduce the essential mathematics (within the context of measurement and control) such as the Kushner– Stratonovich and Langevin equations. We then specialize to linear classical systems and introduce traditional engineering principles such as stabilizing solutions of Riccati equations, controllability, certainty equivalence, and the like. The classical Kushner–Stratonovich and Langevin equations have well-known quantum analogues — the stochastic master equation and the quantum Langevin equation. These, and other relevant tools for doing quantum feedback control are reviewed. Subsequently the concepts of stabilizing solutions of Riccati equations, controllability, separation theorem, amongst other related notions are shown to be adaptable for quantum systems. An essential difference between quantum and classical feedback lies in the in-loop measurement. Quantum measurements induce quantum backaction, non-existent in classsical measurements. This means the measurement strength and strategy in a quantum feedback loop should be optimized for a given control objective. We illustrate each of these points with examples in LQG control. Part II is devoted to the theory of diffusive quantum measurements (measurements that have Gaussian distributed outcomes) and Markovian feedback control for nonlinear systems. A new and general representation of diffusive quantum measurements is derived. This representation is compared with an old representation (which we introduce in Part I) and shown to possess advantages over the old representation. We also propose a quantum optical scheme as a universal method for physically realizing diffusive quantum measurements. Our new representation of diffusive measurements is then applied to build a general theory of multiple-input multiple-output Markovian quantum feedback. Previously known results of Markovian feedback are reproduced as special cases of this more general framework.This work has not previously been submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in the thesis itself.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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This thesis considers two types of applications of quantum feedback control; feedback creation of nonclassical states of light, and controlling nonclassical properties of an ensemble of atoms. An electro-optical feedback loop will create an in-loop field with nonclassical photon statistics similar to squeezed light, resulting in fluorescence line-narrowing of a two-level atom coupled to such light. We extend this theory to study a three-level atom coupled to broadband squashed light, and confirm the two-level atom line-narrowing using a more realistic non-Markovian description of the feedback loop. The second type of application utilizes continuous QND measurement of atomic ensembles. If we measure the collective spin, then the system experiences conditional spin squeezing dependent on the measurement results. We show that feedback based on these results can continuously drive the system into the same conditioned state, resulting in deterministically reproducible spin squeezing. If we measure the atom number fluctuations of a BEC, then, due to the nonlinearity of atomic self interactions, this is also information about phase fluctuations. We show that feedback based on this information can greatly reduce the collisional broadening of the linewidth of an atom laser out-coupled from the condensate.

This thesis considers two types of applications of quantum feedback control; feedback creation of nonclassical states of light, and controlling nonclassical properties of an ensemble of atoms. An electro-optical feedback loop will create an in-loop field with nonclassical photon statistics similar to squeezed light, resulting in fluorescence line-narrowing of a two-level atom coupled to such light. We extend this theory to study a three-level atom coupled to broadband squashed light, and confirm the two-level atom line-narrowing using a more realistic non-Markovian description of the feedback loop. The second type of application utilizes continuous QND measurement of atomic ensembles. If we measure the collective spin, then the system experiences conditional spin squeezing dependent on the measurement results. We show that feedback based on these results can continuously drive the system into the same conditioned state, resulting in deterministically reproducible spin squeezing. If we measure the atom number fluctuations of a BEC, then, due to the nonlinearity of atomic self interactions, this is also information about phase fluctuations. We show that feedback based on this information can greatly reduce the collisional broadening of the linewidth of an atom laser out-coupled from the condensate.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Science
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Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à la stabilisation par rétroaction des systèmes quantiques ouverts soumis à des mesures imparfaites en temps continu. Tout d'abord, nous introduisons la théorie du filtrage quantique pour décrire l'évolution temporelle de l'opérateur de densité conditionnelle représentant un état quantique en interaction avec un environnement. Ceci est décrit par une équation différentielle stochastique à valeurs matricielles. Deuxièmement, nous étudions le comportement asymptotique des trajectoires quantiques associées à des systèmes de spin à N niveaux pour des états initiaux donnés, pour les cas avec et sans loi de rétroaction. Dans le cas sans loi de rétroaction, nous montrons la propriété de réduction de l'état quantique à vitesse exponentielle. Ensuite, nous fournissons des conditions suffisantes sur la loi de contrôle assurant une convergence presque sûre vers un état pur prédéterminé correspondant à un vecteur propre de l'opérateur de mesure. Troisièmement, nous étudions le comportement asymptotique des trajectoires de systèmes ouverts à plusieurs qubits pour des états initiaux donnés. Dans le cas sans loi de rétroaction, nous montrons la réduction exponentielle de l'état quantique pour les systèmes N-qubit avec deux canaux quantiques. Dans le cas particulier des systèmes à deux qubits, nous donnons des conditions suffisantes sur la loi de contrôle assurant la convergence asymptotique vers un état cible de Bell avec un canal quantique, et la convergence exponentielle presque sûre vers un état cible de Bell avec deux canaux quantiques. Ensuite, nous étudions le comportement asymptotique des trajectoires des systèmes quantiques ouverts de spin-1/2 avec les états initiaux inconnus soumis à des mesures imparfaites en temps continu, et nous fournissons des conditions suffisantes au contrôleur pour garantir la convergence de l'état estimé vers l'état quantique réel lorsque le temps tend vers l'infini. En conclusion, nous discutons de manière heuristique du problème de stabilisation exponentielle des systèmes de spin à N niveaux avec les états initiaux inconnus et nous proposons des lois de rétroaction candidates afin de stabiliser le système de manière exponentielle
In this thesis, we focus on the feedback stabilization of open quantum systems undergoing imperfect continuous-time measurements. First, we introduce the quantum filtering theory to obtain the time evolution of the conditional density operator representing a quantum state in interaction with an environment. This is described by a matrix-valued stochastic differential equation. Second, we study the asymptotic behavior of quantum trajectories associated with N-level quantum spin systems for given initial states, for the cases with and without feedback law. For the case without feedback, we show the exponential quantum state reduction. Then, we provide sufficient conditions on the feedback control law ensuring almost sure exponential convergence to a predetermined pure state corresponding to an eigenvector of the measurement operator. Third, we study the asymptotic behavior of trajectories of open multi-qubit systems for given initial states. For the case without feedback, we show the exponential quantum state reduction for N-qubit systems with two quantum channels. Then, we focus on the two-qubit systems, and provide sufficient conditions on the feedback control law ensuring asymptotic convergence to a target Bell state with one quantum channel, and almost sure exponential convergence to a target Bell state with two quantum channels. Next, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of trajectories of open quantum spin-1/2 systems with unknown initial states undergoing imperfect continuous-time measurements, and provide sufficient conditions on the controller to guarantee the convergence of the estimated state towards the actual quantum state when time goes to infinity. Finally, we discuss heuristically the exponential stabilization problem for N-level quantum spin systems with unknown initial states and propose candidate feedback laws to stabilize exponentially the system

Thesis (MTech (Electrical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.
This research investigates the absorption spectra of rubidium and the feedback control of an external cavity diode laser. This research is a necessary prerequisite for laser (Doppler) cooling and trapping of rubidium atoms. Cooling rubidium atoms down to such low temperatures can be achieved using the Doppler cooling technique. Here a laser is tuned to remain resonant with a speci c atomic transition. To do this, the absorption spectra of rubidium must therefore be observed. All of the above require a reasonable knowledge about topics such as atomic physics, laser cooling and trapping, feedback control systems, and absorption spectroscopy. A discussion of these topics is provided. We have utilised an experimental setup which allowed for measurements of the Doppler broadened and Doppler free absorption spectra of rubidium, as well the analysis of the Zeeman e ect on the Doppler free spectra. The setup consisted of a saturated absorption spectrometer for high resolution spectroscopy and a Michelson interferometer for calibrating our measurements. In analysing the Zeeman e ect we added a set of Helmholtz coils to the saturated absorption spectroscopy arrangement to measure the splitting of the hyper ne energy levels.
French South African Institute of Technology (F'SATI) National Research Foundation

Since their initial demonstration in 1994, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have become prominent sources of mid-infrared radiation. Over the years, a large scientific and engineering effort has led to a dramatic improvement in their efficiency and power output, with continuous wave operation at room temperature and Watt-level output power now standard. However, beyond this progress, new functionalities and capabilities need to be added to this compact source to enable its integration into consumer-ready systems. Two main areas of development are particularly relevant from an application standpoint and were pursued during the course of this thesis: wavelength control and wavefront engineering of QCLs. The first research direction, wavelength control, is mainly driven by spectroscopic applications of QCLs, such as trace gas sensing, process monitoring or explosive detection. We demonstrated three different capabilities, corresponding to different potential spectroscopic measurement techniques: widely tunable single longitudinal mode lasing, simultaneous lasing on multiple well-defined longitudinal modes, and simultaneous lasing over a broad and continuous range of the spectrum. The second research direction, wavefront engineering of QCLs, i.e. the improvement of their beam quality, is relevant for applications necessitating transmission of the QCL output over a large distance, for example for remote sensing or military countermeasures. To address this issue, we developed plasmonic lenses directly integrated on the facets of QCLs. The plasmonic structures designed are analogous to antenna arrays imparting directionality to the QCLs, as well as providing means for polarization control. Finally, a research interest in plasmonics led us to design passive flat optical elements using plasmonic antennas. All these projects are tied together by the involvement of Fourier analysis as an essential design tool to predict the interaction of light with various gratings and periodic arrays of grooves and scatterers.
Engineering and Applied Sciences

Cette thèse s'intéresse au problème de préparation et de stabilisation de systèmes quantiques. Nous considérons des modèles correspondant à des expériences actuelles en électrodynamique quantique en cavité, circuits Josephson, et de contrôle quantique cohérent par laser femtoseconde. Nous posons les problèmes dans le contexte de la théorie du contrôle et nous proposons des lois de commande qui préparent ou stabilisent des états cibles. En particulier, nous nous intéressons à des états cibles qui n'ont pas d'analogue classique: des états superpositions et intriqués. De plus, nous proposons une commande pour la stabilisation d'un sous-espace de l'espace des états, contribuant ainsi au domaine de la correction d'erreur quantique. Ces résultats ont été obtenu en étroite collaboration avec des expérimentateurs. Des mesures expérimentales préliminaires sont en bon accord avec certaines prédictions théoriques de cette thèse.

Ultracold atomic Fermi gases are the leading platform for analogue quantum simulation, and provide a promising avenue to study the origin of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. However, current experimental approaches to cooling Fermi gases use evaporative cooling, which is limited by poor thermalisation properties of fermions and is non-number-conserving. This prevents the creation of useful analogue simulators of many collective phenomena. This thesis is the first theoretical investigation into the use of continuous-measurement feedback control as an alternative means of cooling an atomic Fermi gas. Since tractable simulation of Fermi gas dynamics requires simplifications to the full quantum field theory, we derive and simulate a fermionic equivalent to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, generalising a model of feedback-controlled BECs by Haine et al. to multimode ultracold atomic Fermi gases. We demonstrate that in the absence of measurement effects, a suitable control can drive an interacting Fermi gas arbitrarily close to its ground state. However, although control schemes based upon damping spatial density fluctuations work well for single-spatial-mode BECs, we show that they perform poorly for Fermi gases with a large number of atoms due to counter-oscillation of multiple spatial modes, which must exist due to Pauli exclusion. We generalise a feedback-measurement model of BECs by Szigeti et al. to a multimode atomic Fermi gas, and perform stochastic simulations of measured, feedback-controlled fermions in the single-atom and many-atom mean-field limits. The effects of measurement backaction are an important consideration, since in a realistic experiment knowledge of the system state used for feedback must be obtained from measurement, leading to competition between measurement-induced heating and feedback cooling. We show that weaker and less precise measurements cool the system to a lower equilibrium excitation energy, but are unable to place practical lower bounds on measurement strength due to the lack of a system-filter separation. When measurement-induced heating is accounted for, we find that the equilibrium energy per particle scales superlinearly, suggesting that existing control schemes which work well for bosons would not be effective for fermions. In light of this, we propose several avenues of future investigation to overcome this limitation, leaving open the possibility of feedback control of atomic Fermi gases as a pathway to analogue quantum simulation.

This thesis makes some theoretical contributions towards mixed quantum feedback network synthesis, quantum optical realization of classical linear stochastic systems and quantum feedback control designs. A mixed quantum-classical feedback network is an interconnected system consisting of a quantum system and a classical system connected by interfaces that convert quantum signals to classical signal (using homodyne detectors), and vice versa (using electro-optic modulators). In the area of mixed quantum-classical feedback networks, we present a network synthesis theory, which provides a natural framework for analysis and design for mixed linear systems. Physical realizability conditions are derived for linear stochastic differential equations to ensure that mixed systems can correspond to physical systems. The mixed network synthesis theory developed based on physical realizability conditions shows that how a classical of mixed quantum-classical systems described by linear stochastic differential equations can be built as a interconnection of linear quantum systems and linear classical systems using quantum optical devices as well as electrical and electric devices. However, an important practical problem for the implementation of mixed quantum-classical systems is the relatively slow speed of classical parts implemented with standard electrical and electronic devices, since a mixed system will not work correctly unless the electronic processing of classical devices is fast enough. Therefore, another interesting work is to show how classical linear stochastic systems build using electrical and electric devices can be physically implemented using quantum optical components. A complete procedure is proposed for a stable quantum linear stochastic system realizing a given stable classical linear stochastic system. The thesis explains how it may be possible to realize certain measurement feedback loops fully at the quantum level. In the area of quantum feedback control design, two numerical procedures based on extended linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach are proposed to design a coherent quantum controller in this thesis. The extended synthesis linear matrix inequalities are, in addition to new analysis tools, less conservative in comparison to the conventional counterparts since the optimization variables related to the system parameters in extended LMIs are independent of the symmetric Lyapunov matrix. These features may be useful in the optimal design of quantum optical networks. Time delays are frequently encountered in linear quantum feedback control systems such as long transmission lines between quantum plants and linear controllers, which may have an effect on the performance of closed-loop plant controller systems. Therefore, this thesis investigates the problem of linear quantum measurement-based feedback control systems subject to feedback-loop time delay described by linear stochastic differential equations. Several numerical procedures are proposed to design classical controllers that make quantum measurement-based feedback control systems with time delay stable and also guarantee that their desired control performance specifications are satisfied.

碩士
中原大學
機械工程學系
88
The objective of this paper is to develop the optimal output feedback control theory for the quantum system, which is regarded as a bilinear system. The successive approximation procedure is employed for this optimal control problem. Main characteristic of the output feedback method is that the control input can be directly obtained from the detected outputs that record the system responses. The proposed control method is applied to transfer different states of hydrogen fluoride (HF) molecule, which is modeled as an oscillator interacting with a laser field via electric dipole moment. Finally, numerical results including the probabilities of vibrational states, the optimized laser field amplitude, the total energy and the dissociation yield are provided to validate the theoretical results.

碩士
國立交通大學
應用數學系
87
Electronic-controlled route to chaos in a laser diode is further improved by a feedback control technique. By introducing an extra feedback control term cS (t- ), chaotic light output can be achieved by tuning the parameter c without changing the input signal and the bias current. In chaotic region, the power spectra of the photon density shows a broad continuous component and indicates chaotic vibrations in the laser diode. This approach offers an external-controllable chaotic light source for possible digital communication and cryptographic applications.

博士
國立臺灣大學
物理研究所
102
An essential prerequisite for quantum information processing (QIP) is precise coherent control of the dynamics of quantum systems or quantum bits (qubits). This thesis is devoted to the study of quantum control and manipulation of superconducting qubits that are promising candidates for scalable solid-state quantum computing. We study two different types of superconducting qubits and architectures: Circuit cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) and coupled flux qubit systems. In the first part, we present a simple and promising quantum feedback control scheme for deterministic generation and stabilization of a three-qubit entangled W state in the superconducting circuit QED system. We simulate the dynamics of the proposed quantum feedback control scheme using the quantum trajectory approach with an effective stochastic maser equation obtained by a polaron-type transformation method and demonstrate that in the presence of moderate environmental decoherence, the average state fidelity higher than 0.9 can be achieved and maintained for a considerably long time (much longer than the single-qubit decoherence time). This control scheme is also shown to be robust against measurement inefficiency and individual qubit decay rate differences. Finally, the comparison of the polaron-type transformation method to the commonly used adiabatic elimination method to eliminate the cavity mode is presented. In the second part, we apply the quantum optimal control theory based on the Krotov method to implement single-qubit X and Z gates and two-qubit CNOT gates for inductively coupled superconducting flux qubits with fixed qubit transition frequencies and fixed off-diagonal qubit-qubit coupling. The qubits in our scheme are operated at the optimal coherence points and the gate operation times (single-qubit gates <1 ns; CNOT gates 2 ns) are much shorter than the corresponding qubit decoherence time. A CNOT gate or other general quantum gates can be implemented in a ingle run of pulse sequence rather than being decomposed into several single-qubit and some entangled two-qubit operations in series by composite pulse sequences. Quantum gates constructed via our scheme are all with very high delity (very low error) as our optimal control scheme takes into account the fixed qubit detuning and fixed two- qubit interaction as well as all other time-dependent magnetic-eld-induced single- qubit interactions and two-qubit ouplings. In addition, we also investigate the effects of inefficient measurement and additional decoherence on the problems of nonadiabatic elimination of an auxiliary mode coupled to the system of interest in continuous quantum measurements. In contrast to the adiabatic elimination method, the eveloped nonadiabatic elimination approach is particularly important when the eliminated auxiliary mode evolves at a time scale larger than or comparable to the typical system evolution or decay time scale as, in this case, the auxiliary mode has finite memory, and the resultant dynamics of the system alone becomes non-Markovian. We investigate an exactly solvable model of an optomechanical system with a linear interaction with an auxiliary cavity mode to illustrate our approach.

碩士
國立中興大學
電機工程學系所
99
With the aging of the population, the development of automotive technology has become increasingly important for preventing car accident caused by senior drivers. As a basic research of driver assistance system for senior drivers, we propose a novel control design method for steering support. In this method, we consider the stability and limitation of a system, so that senior drivers can driver more safely and comfortably. In the context, we first use a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based method to search the optimal feedback gain under constraints for achieving tracking control. To reduce the convergence time further, the particle swarm optimization algorithm is combined with quantum computing for the purpose. First we use the quantum bit to encode particle position, and use the quantum rotation gate to search the best particle position. Then we use the quantum NOT gate to avoid the premature convergence. Finally, in order to support the system requirements, we design the fitness function for the algorithm that can find the best feedback gains in the shortest time. Simulations and experimental results indicate that the proposed feedback controller based on the quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) is capable of providing satisfactory computational performance for the trajectory tracking and stabilization.