TY - JOUR T1 - Nonisotropic 3-level quantum systems: complete solutions for minimum time and minimum energy JF - Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 5 (2005) 957-990 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ugo Boscain A1 - Thomas Chambrion A1 - Grégoire Charlot AB - We apply techniques of subriemannian geometry on Lie groups and of optimal synthesis on 2-D manifolds to the population transfer problem in a three-level quantum system driven by two laser pulses, of arbitrary shape and frequency. In the rotating wave approximation, we consider a nonisotropic model i.e. a model in which the two coupling constants of the lasers are different. The aim is to induce transitions from the first to the third level, minimizing 1) the time of the transition (with bounded laser amplitudes),\\n2) the energy of lasers (with fixed final time). After reducing the problem to real variables, for the purpose 1) we develop a theory of time optimal syntheses for distributional problem on 2-D-manifolds, while for the purpose 2) we use techniques of subriemannian geometry on 3-D Lie groups. The complete optimal syntheses are computed. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2259 U1 - 1988 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -