Agrachev's universal gap conjecture for quantum control systems

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Let Σ\Sigma be a finite-dimensional quantum control system on Cn\mathbb{C}^n of the form

x˙=Ax+i=1pBixui,\dot{x}=Ax+\sum_{i=1}^{p}B_i x\,u_i,

where AA and the BiB_i are skew-adjoint matrices, and normalize the drift by A=1\lVert A\rVert=1. Let T(Σ)T(\Sigma) be the supremum, over pairs of points on the unit sphere S2n1CnS^{2n-1}\subset\mathbb{C}^n, of the minimum time needed to connect them using trajectories of Σ\Sigma with arbitrary LL^\infty controls. Agrachev's universal gap conjecture. There exists a universal gap δ>0\delta>0 for the minimum time: for every dimension nn and every quantum system Σ\Sigma, either T(Σ)=0T(\Sigma)=0 or T(Σ)δT(\Sigma)\geq\delta. The conjecture asserts a dimension-independent positive lower bound for every nonzero minimum controllability time, complementing the case in which the system without drift is controllable and T(Σ)=0T(\Sigma)=0.

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Jean-Paul Gauthier and Francesco Rossi, “A universal gap for non-spin quantum control systems”, arXiv:1812.06086 (2020).

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