Suppression of Multiphoton Resonances in Driven Quantum Systems via Pulse Shape Optimization

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Aug 4;119(5):053203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.053203. Epub 2017 Aug 3.

Abstract

This Letter demonstrates control over multiphoton absorption processes in driven two-level systems, which include, for example, superconducting qubits or laser-irradiated graphene, through spectral shaping of the driving pulse. Starting from calculations based on Floquet theory, we use differential evolution, a general purpose optimization algorithm, to find the Fourier coefficients of the driving function that suppress a given multiphoton resonance in the strong field regime. We show that the suppression of the transition probability is due to the coherent superposition of high-order Fourier harmonics which closes the dynamical gap between the Floquet states of the two-level system.