# Accelerated Newton-Raphson GRAPE methods for optimal control

**Authors:** David L. Goodwin, Mads Sloth Vinding  
**arXiv:** [2207.09882](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09882)  
**Date:** 2022-07-20  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/2207.09882v2/

## Abstract

A Hessian based optimal control method is presented in Liouville space to mitigate previously undesirable polynomial scaling of computation time. This new method, an improvement to the state-of-the-art Newton-Raphson GRAPE method, is derived with respect to two exact time-propagator derivative techniques: auxiliary matrix and ESCALADE methods. We observed that compared to the best current implementation of Newton-Raphson GRAPE method, for an ensemble of 2-level systems, with realistic conditions, the new auxiliary matrix and ESCALADE Hessians can be 4-200 and 70-600 times faster, respectively.