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We study the implementation of one-, two-, and three-qubit quantum gates for interacting qubits using optimal control. Different Markovian and non-Markovian environments are compared and efficient optimisation algorithms utilising analytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Frederik Floether , Pierre de Fouquieres , Sophie Schirmer

Optimal control theory is a powerful tool for improving figures of merit in quantum information tasks. Finding the solution to any optimal control problem via numerical optimization depends crucially on the choice of the optimization…

A foundational assumption of quantum error correction theory is that quantum gates can be scaled to large processors without exceeding the error-threshold for fault tolerance. Two major challenges that could become fundamental roadblocks…

Optimal control theory provides recipes to achieve quantum operations with high fidelity and speed, as required in quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and computation. While technical advances have achieved the ultrastrong driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 M. Hirose , P. Cappellaro

Quantum optimal control theory allows to design accurate quantum gates. We employ it to design high-fidelity two-bit gates for Josephson charge qubits in the presence of both leakage and noise. Our protocol considerably increases the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Montangero , Tommaso Calarco , Rosario Fazio

Dynamic control via optimized, piecewise-constant pulses is a common paradigm for open-loop control to implement quantum gates. While numerous methods exist for the synthesis of such controls, there are many open questions regarding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 S. P. O'Neil , C. A. Weidner , E. A. Jonckheere , F. C. Langbein , S. G. Schirmer

Implementing fast and high-fidelity quantum operations using open-loop quantum optimal control relies on having an accurate model of the quantum dynamics. Any deviations between this model and the complete dynamics of the device, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Elie Genois , Noah J. Stevenson , Noah Goss , Irfan Siddiqi , Alexandre Blais

Quantum systems are inherently sensitive to environmental noise and imperfections in external control fields, posing a significant challenge for the practical implementation of quantum technologies. These noise sources degrade the fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Aviv Aroch , Shimshon Kallush , Ronnie Kosloff

Quantum controls realize the unitary or nonunitary operations employed in quantum computers, quantum simulators, quantum communications, and other quantum information devices. They implement the desired quantum dynamics with the help of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 T S Mahesh , Priya Batra , M. Harshanth Ram

The implementation of fault-tolerant quantum gates on encoded logic qubits is considered. It is shown that transversal implementation of logic gates based on simple geometric control ideas is problematic for realistic physical systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Nigmatullin , S. G. Schirmer

The optimal implementation of quantum gates for closed $N$-qubit systems is one of the key challenges for practical realization of many quantum information processing tasks. In the present article, based on the generalized Bloch vectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Elena R. Loubenets , Sergey Kuznetsov

Efforts to scale-up quantum computation have reached a point where the principal limiting factor is not the number of qubits, but the entangling gate infidelity. However, the highly detailed system characterization required to understand…

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

Fastness and robustness are both critical in the implementation of high-fidelity gates for quantum computation, but in practice, a trade-off has to be made between them. In this paper, we investigate the underlying robust time-optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Xi Cao , Jiangyu Cui , Man Hong Yung , Re-Bing Wu

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

The optimal quantum control theory is employed to determine electric pulses capable of producing quantum gates with high fidelity (higher than 0.9997). Particularly, these quantum gates were chosen to perform the permutation algorithm (Z.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. M. Rivera-Ruiz , E. F. de Lima , F. F. Fanchini , V. Lopez-Richard , L. K. Castelano

The ability to characterise a Hamiltonian with high precision is crucial for the implementation of quantum technologies. In addition to the well-developed approaches utilising optimal probe states and optimal measurements, the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shushen Qin , Marcus Cramer , Christiane P. Koch , Alessio Serafini

Precision control of quantum systems is the driving force for both quantum technology and the probing of physics at the quantum and nano-scale. We propose an implementation independent method for in situ quantum control that leverages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Christopher Ferrie , Osama Moussa

Quantum systems can be exquisite sensors thanks to their sensitivity to external perturbations. This same characteristic also makes them fragile to external noise. Quantum control can tackle the challenge of protecting quantum sensors from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 F. Poggiali , P. Cappellaro , N. Fabbri

Optimal quantum control theory carries a huge promise for quantum technology. Its experimental application, however, is often hindered by imprecise knowledge of the its input variables, the quantum system's parameters. We show how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 D. J. Egger , F. K. Wilhelm