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Many proposals have been put forth for controlling quantum phenomena, including open-loop, adaptive feedback, and real-time feedback control. Each of these approaches has been viewed as operationally, and even physically, distinct from the…
We investigate the control landscapes of closed, finite level quantum systems beyond the dipole approximation by including a polarizability term in the Hamiltonian. Theoretical analysis is presented for the $n$ level case and formulas for…
We study unconstrained control of a two-level quantum system and analyse critical points of the objective functional which represents quantum average of system observable at some final time $T$. In Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 285, 233-240…
We establish three tractable, jointly sufficient conditions for the control landscapes of non-linear control systems to be trap free comparable to those now well known in quantum control. In particular, our results encompass end-point…
The growing successes in performing quantum control experiments motivated the development of control landscape analysis as a basis to explain these findings.When a quantum system is controlled by an electromagnetic field, the observable as…
Why does controlling quantum phenomena appear easy to achieve? Why do effective quantum controls appear easy to find? Why is chemical synthesis and property optimization easier than expected? How to explain the commonalities across the…
Optimization is ubiquitous in quantum information science and technology, however, the corresponding optimization landscape can encounter false traps, i.e., local but not global optima, likely to prevent used optimizers from finding optimal…
This review investigates the landscapes of prevalent hybrid quantum-classical optimization algorithms in many rapidly developing quantum technologies, where the objective function is either computed by a natural quantum system or a quantum…
This paper explains some fundamental ideas of {\em feedback} control of quantum systems through the study of a relatively simple two-level system coupled to optical field channels. The model for this system includes both continuous and…
In optimal quantum control, control landscape phase transitions (CLPTs) indicate sharp changes occurring in the set of optimal protocols, as a physical model parameter is varied. Here, we demonstrate the existence of a new class of CLPTs,…
The interplay between unitary dynamics and quantum measurements induces diverse phenomena in open quantum systems with no counterparts in closed quantum systems at equilibrium. Here, we generally classify Kraus operators and their effective…
In this work, we consider the problem of ultrafast controlled generation of single-qubit phase shift quantum gates. Globally optimal control is a control which realizes the gate with maximal possible fidelity. Trap is a control which is…
Many phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology involve seeking an optimal control to maximize an objective for a classical or quantum system which is open and interacting with its environment. The complexity of finding an optimal control…
This paper considers the control landscape of quantum transitions in multi-qubit systems driven by unitary transformations with single-qubit interaction terms. The two-qubit case is fully analyzed to reveal the features of the landscape…
There is a strong interest in optimal manipulating of quantum systems by external controls. Traps are controls which are optimal only locally but not globally. If they exist, they can be serious obstacles to the search of globally optimal…
In this work we study extrema of objective functionals for ultrafast manipulation by a qubit. Traps are extrema of the objective functionals which are optimal for manipulation by quantum systems only locally but not globally. Much effort in…
Methods of optimal control are applied to a model system of interacting two-level particles (e.g., spin-half atomic nuclei or electrons or two-level atoms) to produce high-fidelity quantum gates while simultaneously negating the detrimental…
Control landscape phase transitions (CLPTs) occur as abrupt changes in the cost function landscape upon varying a control parameter, and can be revealed by non-analytic points in statistical order parameters. A prime example are quantum…
We study the controlled dynamics of the {\it ensembles of points} of a Riemannian manifold $M$. Parameterized ensemble of points of $M$ is the image of a continuous map $\gamma:\Theta \to M$, where $\Theta$ is a compact set of parameters.…
Numerical and experimental realizations of quantum control are closely connected to the properties of the mapping from the control to the unitary propagator. For bilinear quantum control problems, no general results are available to fully…