Bichromatically driven double well: parametric perspective of the strong field control landscape reveals the influence of chaotic states

J Chem Phys. 2008 Apr 28;128(16):164117. doi: 10.1063/1.2907861.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to understand the influence of chaotic states in control problems involving strong fields. Towards this end, we numerically construct and study the strong field control landscape of a bichromatically driven double well. A novel measure based on correlating the overlap intensities between Floquet states and an initial phase space coherent state with the parametric motion of the quasienergies is used to construct and interpret the landscape features. "Walls" of no control, which are robust under variations of the relative phase between the fields, are seen on the control landscape and associated with multilevel interactions involving chaotic Floquet states.