Optimally robust shortcuts to population inversion in two-level quantum systems

A. Ruschhaupt, Xi Chen, D. Alonso, J. G. Muga

Published 2012-06-08Version 1

We examine the stability versus different types of perturbations of recently proposed shortcuts-to-adiabaticity to speed up the population inversion of a two-level quantum system. We find optimally robust processes using invariant based engineering of the Hamiltonian. Amplitude noise and systematic errors require different optimal protocols.