Palindromic control and mirror symmetries in finite difference discretizations of 1-D Schrödinger equations

Abstract

We consider discrete potentials as controls in systems of finite difference equations which are discretizations of a 1-D Schrodinger equation. We give examples of palindromic potentials which have corresponding steerable initial-terminal pairs which are not mirror-symmetric. For a set of palindromic potentials, we show that the corresponding steerable pairs that satisfy a localization property are mirror-symmetric. We express the initial and terminal states in these pairs explicitly as scalar multiples of vector-valued functions of a parameter in the control.