A Survey of Quantum Lyapunov Control Methods

Abstract: The condition of a quantum Lyapunov-based control which can be well used in a closed quantum system is that the method can make the system convergent but not just stable. In the convergence study of the quantum Lyapunov control, two situations are classified: non-degenerate cases and degenerate cases. In this paper, for these two situations, respectively, the target state is divided into four categories: eigenstate, the mixed state which commutes with the internal Hamiltonian, the superposition state, and the mixed state which does not commute with the internal Hamiltonian state. For these four categories, the quantum Lyapunov control methods for the closed quantum systems are summarized and analyzed. Especially, the convergence of the control system to the different target states is reviewed, and how to make the convergence conditions be satisfied is summarized and analyzed.