Performance analysis of derandomized evolution strategies in quantum control experiments

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 519-526

  Shir, Ofer M ^a   Back, Thomas ^a,c   Roslund, Jonathan ^b   Rabitz, Herschel ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NuTech Solutions GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMA ES; Derandomized evolution strategies; Experimental quantum control; Laser pulse shaping

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; QUANTUM THEORY;

COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GAS); IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LANDSCAPE INFORMATION; NOISE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS; QUANTUM CONTROL;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 57349155620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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