In recent experiments on ultracold matter, molecules have been produced from ultracold
atoms by photoassociation, Feshbach resonances, and three-body recombination. The …

STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) has proven to be an efficient and robust
technique for transferring population in a three-level system without populating the …

Optimal control theory is developed for the task of obtaining an objective in a subspace of
the Hilbert space while avoiding population transfer to other subspaces. The objective, a …

We have investigated the dissociation mechanisms of the prototypical heavy polar molecule
OCS into the two break-up channels of the dication, OCS2+→ O++ CS+ and OC++ S+, in …

Quantum control originated in the mid-1980s as a set of different laser schemes designed to
manipulate chemical reactions and excite the molecule in specific quantum states. In the last …

A general local control theory for manipulating quantum system dynamics is developed.
Basic concept of the present theory is lying in the realization of monotonous increasing …

We study different mechanisms of adiabatic population transfer in N-level systems by means
of optimal control algorithms. Using two-dimensional topographic maps of the yield of …

We present an analytical pulse design protocol for controlling the vibrational dynamics of
polar diatomic molecules within a given electronic state. Altering the potential energy …

A new approach to locally design a control pulse is proposed. This locally optimized control
pulse is explicitly derived, starting with optimal control formalism, and satisfies the necessary …

Laser control of chemical reactions is a challenging field of research. In particular, the
theoretical description of coupled electronic and nuclear motion in the presence of laser …