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  1. Quantum optimal control of squeezing in cavity optomechanics

    Article • July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  2. Dilute Measurement-Induced Cooling into Many-Body Ground States

    Article • PRX Quantum, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  3. Improving potential energy surfaces using measured Feshbach resonance states

    Article • Science Advances, March 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christiane P Koch

  4. Determining the ability for universal quantum computing: Testing controllability via dimensional expressivity

    Article • Quantum, December 2023, Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften

    Christiane P Koch

  5. Optimizing for an arbitrary Schrödinger cat state

    Article • Physical Review Research, October 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  6. Graph test of controllability in qubit arrays: a systematic way to determine the minimum number of external controls

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, July 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  7. Tomography of Feshbach resonance states

    Article • Science, April 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christiane P Koch

  8. Correction: Increasing ion yield circular dichroism in femtosecond photoionisation using optimal control theory

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Christiane P Koch

  9. Pump-probe spectroscopy of chiral vibrational dynamics

    Article • Science Advances, December 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christiane P Koch

  10. Optimal control for Hamiltonian parameter estimation in non-commuting and bipartite quantum dynamics

    Article • SciPost Physics, December 2022, Stichting SciPost

    Christiane P Koch

  11. Rydberg Atom-Enabled Spectroscopy of Polar Molecules via Förster Resonance Energy Transfer

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, November 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Christiane P Koch

  12. Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

    Article • EPJ Quantum Technology, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  13. Reservoir-engineering shortcuts to adiabaticity

    Article • Physical Review Research, July 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  14. Lie algebra for rotational subsystems of a driven asymmetric top

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, May 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  15. Full quantum control of enantiomer-selective state transfer in chiral molecules despite degeneracy

    Article • Communications Physics, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  16. Rational Pulse Design for Enantiomer-Selective Microwave Three-Wave Mixing

    Article • Symmetry, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Christiane P Koch

  17. Engineering strong beamsplitter interaction between bosonic modes via quantum optimal control theory

    Article • Physical Review Research, April 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  18. Resource-Efficient Dissipative Entanglement of Two Trapped-Ion Qubits

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  19. Increasing ion yield circular dichroism in femtosecond photoionisation using optimal control theory

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Christiane P Koch

  20. Fano interference in quantum resonances from angle-resolved elastic scattering

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  21. Coherent control of ultrafast bond making and subsequent molecular dynamics: demonstration of final-state branching ratio control

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  22. Corrigendum: Controlling open quantum systems: tools, achievements, limitations (2016 J. Phys. Condens. Matter 28 213001)

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, June 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  23. Corrigendum: Optimal control theory for a unitary operation under dissipative evolution (2014 New J. Phys. 16 055012)

    Article • New Journal of Physics, March 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  24. Fundamental bounds on qubit reset

    Article • Physical Review Research, February 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  25. Determining the nature of quantum resonances by probing elastic and reactive scattering in cold collisions

    Article • Nature Chemistry, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  26. Optimally controlled quantum discrimination and estimation

    Article • Physical Review Research, September 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  27. Fast Navigation in a Large Hilbert Space Using Quantum Optimal Control

    Article • Physical Review X, June 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  28. Simulation of open-quantum-system dynamics using the quantum Zeno effect

    Article • Physical Review Research, May 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  29. Suppression of hole decoherence in ultrafast photoionization

    Article • April 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  30. Phase protection of Fano-Feshbach resonances

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  31. Branching ratio coherent control in ultrafast bond making

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, January 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  32. A Python implementation of Krotov's method for quantum optimal control

    Article • SciPost Physics, December 2019, Stichting SciPost

    Christiane P Koch

  33. Multicolor Quantum Control for Suppressing Ground State Coherences in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  34. Optimized sampling of mixed-state observables

    Article • November 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  35. Reservoir engineering using quantum optimal control for qubit reset

    Article • New Journal of Physics, September 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch, Tapio Ala-Nissila

  36. Quantum control of molecular rotation

    Article • Reviews of Modern Physics, September 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  37. Perfect control of photoelectron anisotropy for randomly oriented ensembles of molecules by XUV REMPI and polarization shaping

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  38. How to select chiral molecules of one handedness only

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  39. Controlling ultracold p -wave collisions with nonresonant light: Predictions of an asymptotic model

    Article • March 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  40. Defining the p -wave scattering volume in the presence of dipolar interactions

    Article • March 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  41. Cold temperatures invert product ratios in Penning ionisation reactions with argon

    Article • Molecular Physics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  42. Time-optimal control of the purification of a qubit in contact with a structured environment

    Article • March 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  43. Quantum Optimal Control for Mixed State Squeezing in Cavity Optomechanics

    Article • Advanced Quantum Technologies, February 2019, Wiley

    Christiane P Koch

  44. Erratum: Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. II. Application [Phys. Rev. A 91 , 062307 (2015)]

    Article • January 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  45. Quantum Control of Photoelectron Circular Dichroism

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  46. Quantum optimal control of the dissipative production of a maximally entangled state

    Article • New Journal of Physics, December 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  47. Optimal storage of a single photon by a single intra-cavity atom

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  48. Dissipative quantum dynamics and optimal control using iterative time ordering: an application to superconducting qubits

    Article • The European Physical Journal B, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  49. Fast and accurate circularization of a Rydberg atom

    Article • May 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  50. Beating the limits with initial correlations

    Article • New Journal of Physics, November 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  51. Charting the circuit QED design landscape using optimal control theory

    Article • npj Quantum Information, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  52. Hybrid benchmarking of arbitrary quantum gates

    Article • June 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  53. Controlling thes-wave scattering length with nonresonant light: Predictions of an asymptotic model

    Article • February 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  54. Theoretical description of circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions of randomly oriented chiral molecules after multi-photon photoionization

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  55. Directly probing anisotropy in atom–molecule collisions through quantum scattering resonances

    Article • Nature Physics, October 2016, Nature

    Christiane P Koch

  56. Maximizing hole coherence in ultrafast photoionization of argon with an optimization by sequential parametrization update

    Article • August 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  57. Controlling open quantum systems: tools, achievements, and limitations

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  58. Photoassociation Spectroscopy in Penning Ionization Reactions at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, February 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Christiane P Koch

  59. Quantum optimal control of photoelectron spectra and angular distributions

    Article • January 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  60. Training Schrödinger’s cat: quantum optimal control

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  61. Molecular hydrogen interacts more strongly when rotationally excited at low temperatures leading to faster reactions

    Article • Nature Chemistry, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  62. Hybrid optimization schemes for quantum control

    Article • EPJ Quantum Technology, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  63. Coherent control of bond making: the performance of rationally phase-shaped femtosecond laser pulses

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  64. Exploiting Non-Markovianity for Quantum Control

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  65. Laser pulses for coherent xuv Raman excitation

    Article • Physical Review A, July 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  66. Coherent Control of Bond Making

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  67. Erratum: Optimal Strategies for Estimating the Average Fidelity of Quantum Gates [Phys. Rev. Lett.111, 200401 (2013)]

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  68. Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. I. Functionals

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  69. Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. II. Application

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  70. Asymptotic model for shape resonance control of diatomics by intense non-resonant light

    Article • New Journal of Physics, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  71. Cold interactions between anYb+ion and a Li atom: Prospects for sympathetic cooling, radiative association, and Feshbach resonances

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  72. Femtosecond wavepacket interferometry using the rotational dynamics of a trapped cold molecular ion

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  73. Predissociation dynamics of lithium iodide

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  74. Robustness of high-fidelity Rydberg gates with single-site addressability

    Article • Physical Review A, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  75. Optimal quantum control of Bose-Einstein condensates in magnetic microtraps: Comparison of gradient-ascent-pulse-engineering and Krotov optimization schemes

    Article • Physical Review A, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  76. Efficient Monte Carlo characterization of quantum operations for qudits

    Article • Physical Review A, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  77. Optimal qudit operator bases for efficient characterization of quantum gates

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, September 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  78. Arbitrary-quantum-state preparation of a harmonic oscillator via optimal control

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  79. Controlling the transport of an ion: classical and quantum mechanical solutions

    Article • New Journal of Physics, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  80. Optimal control theory for a unitary operation under dissipative evolution

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  81. Controlling Magnetic Feshbach Resonances in Polar Open-Shell Molecules with Nonresonant Light

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  82. Time optimization and state-dependent constraints in the quantum optimal control of molecular orientation

    Article • Journal of Modern Optics, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Christiane P Koch

  83. Cooling molecular vibrations with shaped laser pulses: optimal control theory exploiting the timescale separation between coherent excitation and spontaneous emission

    Article • New Journal of Physics, December 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  84. Optimal Strategies for Estimating the Average Fidelity of Quantum Gates

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  85. Steering the optimization pathway in the control landscape using constraints

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  86. Optimal control under spectral constraints: enforcing multi-photon absorption pathways

    Article • Journal of Modern Optics, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Christiane P Koch

  87. Femtosecond two-photon photoassociation of hot magnesium atoms: A quantum dynamical study using thermal random phase wavefunctions

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  88. Minimum number of input states required for quantum gate characterization

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  89. Renormalization approach to non-Markovian open-quantum-system dynamics

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  90. Interatomic potentials, electric properties and spectroscopy of the ground and excited states of the Rb2 molecule: ab initio calculations and effect of a non-resonant field*

    Article • Molecular Physics, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Christiane P Koch

  91. Comparative study of monotonically convergent optimization algorithms for the control of molecular rotation

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  92. Enhancing photoassociation rates by nonresonant-light control of shape resonances

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  93. Optimized production of ultracold ground-state molecules: Stabilization employing potentials with ion-pair character and strong spin-orbit coupling

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  94. Rovibrational dynamics of the strontium molecule in the ${\rm A}\sideset{^1}{_{u}^{+}}{\Sigma}$AΣu+1, c3Πu, and ${\rm a}\sideset{^3}{_{u}^{+}}{\Sigma}$aΣu+3 manifold from state-of-the-art ab initio calculations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  95. Formation of deeply bound ultracold Sr2molecules by photoassociation near the1S+3P1intercombination line

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  96. Coherent Control of Ultracold Photoassociation

    Article • Chemical Reviews, April 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Christiane P Koch

  97. Controllability on relaxation-free subspaces: On the relationship between adiabatic population transfer and optimal control

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  98. Monotonically convergent optimization in quantum control using Krotov's method

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  99. Generating Molecular Rovibrational Coherence by Two-Photon Femtosecond Photoassociation of Thermally Hot Atoms

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  100. Optimizing entangling quantum gates for physical systems

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  101. Prospects for fast Rydberg gates on an atom chip

    Article • Quantum Information Processing, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  102. The quantum speed limit of optimal controlled phasegates for trapped neutral atoms

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  103. Formation of ultracold SrYb molecules in an optical lattice by photoassociation spectroscopy: theoretical prospects

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Christiane Koch, Christiane P Koch

  104. Femtosecond coherent control of thermal photoassociation of magnesium atoms

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Christiane P Koch

  105. Erratum: Stabilization of ultracold molecules using optimal control theory [Phys. Rev. A70, 013402 (2004)]

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  106. Vibrational stabilization of ultracold KRb molecules: A comparative study

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  107. Correlation dynamics after short-pulse photoassociation

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  108. A Chebychev propagator with iterative time ordering for explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  109. Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Two-Body Correlations in Ultracold Gases

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  110. Photoassociation and coherent transient dynamics in the interaction of ultracold rubidium atoms with shaped femtosecond pulses. II. Theory

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  111. Characteristic oscillations in the coherent transients of ultracold rubidium molecules using red and blue detuned pulses for photoassociation

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, October 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  112. Spectrally resolved coherent transient signal for ultracold rubidium molecules

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch

  113. Stimulating the production of deeply bound RbCs molecules with laser pulses: the role of spin–orbit coupling in forming ultracold molecules

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  114. A Chebychev propagator for inhomogeneous Schrödinger equations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  115. Two-photon coherent control of femtosecond photoassociation

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Christiane P Koch

  116. Perspectives for coherent optical formation of strontium molecules in their electronic ground state

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  117. Engineering an all-optical route to ultracold molecules in their vibronic ground state

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  118. Protecting coherence in optimal control theory: State-dependent constraint approach

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  119. Enhancement of the formation of ultracoldRb285molecules due to resonant coupling

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  120. Photoassociation with chirped laser pulses: calculation of the absolute number of molecules per pulse

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, September 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  121. Theoretical model for ultracold molecule formation via adaptive feedback control

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, September 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Christiane P Koch

  122. Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below theD1line

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  123. Making ultracold molecules in a two-color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  124. Two-dimensional surrogate Hamiltonian investigation of laser-induced desorption of NO∕NiO(100)

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  125. Creating Ground State Molecules with Optical Feshbach Resonances in Tight Traps

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  126. Dissipative quantum dynamics with the surrogate Hamiltonian approach. A comparison between spin and harmonic baths

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  127. Stabilization of ultracold molecules using optimal control theory

    Article • Physical Review A, July 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  128. Surrogate Hamiltonian study of electronic relaxation in the femtosecond laser induced desorption of NO/NiO(100)

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  129. Femtosecond Photodesorption of Small Molecules from Surfaces: A Theoretical Investigation from First Principles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  130. A complete quantum description of an ultrafast pump-probe charge transfer event in condensed phase

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Christiane P Koch

  131. Spin-boson Hamiltonian and optical absorption of molecular dimers

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Christiane P Koch

  132. Spectrum, lifetime distributions and relaxation in a dimer with strong excitonic–vibronic coupling

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, April 1999, Elsevier

    Christiane P Koch

  133. Analysis and control of small isolated molecular systems

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Christiane P Koch