Workshop Proposal: Control of Quantum Systems Conference, Harvard University; August 7-12, 2006

该提案要求为2006年8月在哈佛大学举行的为期五天的量子控制研讨会提供资金。讲习班的目标是在控制理论家之间促进对设计控制计划的方法的应用驱动需求的理解，并认识到实施这些方法的实际制约因素。我们还希望在实验者和理论界对控制理论中分析/设计方法的范围和实用性做出评价。最后，我们希望开始发展量子控制的概念和数学语言。研究报告将与辅导课程相结合。我们正在从几个来源申请资金，希望我们能够支付来自剑桥以外的大约55名与会者和大约20名当地与会者的旅费和生活费。智力价值研讨会的目的是让来自物理、化学、控制理论、动力系统、随机学、信号处理和信息科学的不同领域的研究人员识别数学模型和控制问题，其研究和解决方案将对涉及量子系统控制和操作的技术和实验产生重大影响。经验表明，控制理论方法的系统使用导致了从磁共振到量子信息处理等领域的最先进方法的显著改进。研讨会的目的是在这些成功的基础上，建立量子力学系统的统一语言和系统理论，这些系统可能会对原子、分子和光学物理、化学中的相干光谱学、磁共振、量子通信、信息和计算等领域产生影响。这次会议的重要影响是辅导课程，旨在教育学生和研究人员在物理、化学和磁共振领域，控制理论的分析和设计方法。还将为工程学的研究人员和学生提供涉及量子系统控制和操作的应用程序中出现的基本模型的教程。以应用为导向的从业者通常使用的模型和分析的类型与控制理论家研究的模型和分析之间存在着巨大的差距。研讨会旨在弥合这一差距。

The proposal requests funds for a five day workshop on quantum control to be held at Harvard Universityin August of 2006. The goal of the workshop is to foster an understanding among control theorists ofapplication-driven needs for methods to design control schemes and an appreciation of the practicalconstraints on their implementation. We also hope to build an appreciation among experimentalistsand theoretical for the range and utility of analysis/design methods from control theory. Finally, wehope to begin the development conceptual and mathematical languages for quantum control. researchpresentations will be integrated with tutorial lectures. We are requesting funds from several sources withthe expectation that we will be able to cover the travel and living expenses of about 55 attendees fromoutside Cambridge and about 20 local.Intellectual Merit The workshop aims to bring researchers from diverse field of physics, chemistry,control theory, dynamical systems, stochastics, signal processing and information science to identifymathematical models and control problems whose study and solution will have significant bearing ontechnologies and experiments involving control and manipulation of quantum systems. Experience hasshown that systematic use of methods of control theory that lead to significant improvement in the stateof the art methods in fields ranging from magnetic resonance to quantum information processing. Theworkshop aims to build on these successes to create a unified language and system theory of quantummechanical systems with potential impact on areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics, coherentspectroscopies in chemistry, magnetic resonance, quantum communication, information and computation.Broader Impact Important component of this meeting are tutorial sessions that aim to educate studentsand researchers in areas of physics, chemistry and magnetic resonance, the analysis and design methodsof control theory. There will also be tutorial session on basic models that arise in applications involvingcontrol and manipulation of quantum systems to researchers and students in engineering. There is aformidable gap between the types of models and analysis commonly utilized by application-orientedpractitioners and those studied by control theorists. The workshop aims to bridge this gap.