Laser and Diffusion Driven Optimal Discrimination of Similar Quantum Systems in Resonator

A method for solving the problem of efficient population transfer from the ground to some excited state by available technical means (varying resonator length) is proposed. We consider a mixture of similar quantum systems distributed in a stationary gas flow in the resonator with variable resonator length, which implements tailored laser field close to the optimal one. In difference from previous works, in this work piezoelectric transducer (PZT; or actuator) is used as mean of control to manipulate variable resonator length. The external actions are optimized to selectively prepare different stationary states of different species which are then separated using their diffusion with rates which differ due to different masses. This system provides an example of the general problem of optimizing states of distributed systems with stationary gas flow with diffusion.