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We are grateful to K. Takahashi and R. Kosloff for stimulating discussions. We acknowledge funding by Grants No. IT472-10 and No. FIS2009-12773-C02-01, and theUPV/EHU Program No. UFI 11/55. E.T. is supported by the Basque Government postdoctoral program. S.M.-G. acknowledges support from a UPV/EHU fellowship.
We use the dynamical algebra of a quantum system and its dynamical invariants to inverse engineer feasible Hamiltonians for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are speeded up processes that end up with the same populations as slow, adiabatic ones. AsWe use the dynamical algebra of a quantum system and its dynamical invariants to inverse engineer feasible Hamiltonians for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are speeded up processes that end up with the same populations as slow, adiabatic ones. As application examples, we design families of shortcut Hamiltonians that drive two- and three-level systems between initial and final configurations, imposing physically motivated constraints on the terms (generators) allowed in the Hamiltonian.[+][-]