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Universally Robust Control of Open Quantum Systems

Quantum Physics 2026-03-18 v2 Quantum Gases

Abstract

Mitigating noise-induced decoherence is the central challenge in controlling open quantum systems. While existing robust protocols often require precise noise models, we introduce a universal framework for noise-agnostic quantum control that achieves high-fidelity operations without prior environmental noise characterization. This framework capitalizes on the dynamical modification of the system-environment coupling through control drives, an effect rigorously encoded in the dynamical equation. Since the derived noise sensitivity metric remains independent of the coupling details between the system and the environment, our protocol demonstrates provable robustness against arbitrary Markovian noises. Numerical validation through quantum state transfer and gate operations reveals near-unity fidelity (> ⁣99%>\!99\%) across diverse noise regimes, achieving orders-of-magnitude error suppression compared to target-only approaches. This framework bridges critical gaps between theoretical control design and experimental constraints, establishing a hardware-agnostic pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum technologies across platforms such as superconducting circuits, trapped ions, and solid-state qubits.

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@article{arxiv.2508.07379,
  title  = {Universally Robust Control of Open Quantum Systems},
  author = {Lixiang Ding and Jingtao Fan and Xingze Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07379},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures, close to published version

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