Welcome to the Krotov package’s documentation!

Contents:

• Krotov Python Package
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Contributing
  • Report Bugs
  • Submit Feedback
  • Fix Bugs / Implement Features
  • Pull Request Guidelines
  • Get Started!
  • Testing
  • Write Documentation
  • Contribute Examples
  • Versioning
  • Developers’ How-Tos
• Credits
  • Development Lead
  • Development Team
• Features
• History
  • 0.1.0 (2018-12-24)
  • 0.0.1 (2018-11-06)
• Krotov’s Method
  • Functionals
  • Conditions for the update equation
  • First order update equation
  • Second order update equation
  • Time discretization
  • Choice of λₐ
  • Rotating wave approximation
  • Optimization in Liouville space
• Using Krotov with QuTiP
• Krotov vs GRAPE and CRAB
  • Gradient-based optimization
  • Gradient-free optimization
  • Choosing an optimization method
• Time Propagation
• Time Discretization Schemes
• Examples
  • Optimization of a State-to-State Transfer in a Two-Level-System
  • Optimization of a state-to-state transfer in a lambda system with RWA
  • Optimization of a dissipative state-to-state transfer in a Lambda system
  • Optimization of Dissipative Qubit Reset
  • Optimization of an X-Gate for a Transmon Qubit
• How-Tos
  • How to optimize towards a quantum gate
  • How to optimize complex control fields
  • How to exclude a control from the optimization
  • How to define a new optimization functional
  • How to optimize towards a two-qubit gate up to single-qubit corrections
  • How to penalize population in a forbidden subspace
  • How to optimize towards an arbitrary perfect entangler
• References

API

• API of the Krotov package

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index