IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.50, No.6, 768-780, 2005
Feedback control of quantum state reduction
Feedback control of quantum mechanical systems must take into account the probabilistic nature of quantum measurement. We formulate quantum feedback control as a problem of stochastic nonlinear control by considering separately a quantum filtering problem and a state feedback control problem for the filter. We explore the use of stochastic Lyapunov techniques for the design of feedback controllers for quantum spin systems and demonstrate the possibility of stabilizing one outcome of a quantum measurement with unit probability.
Keywords:Lyapunov functions;quantum filtering;quantum mechanics;quantum probability;stochastic nonlinear control