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Coherent carrier control in quantum nanostructures is studied within the framework of Optimal Control. We develop a general solution scheme for the optimization of an external control (e.g., lasers pulses), which allows to channel the…

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Control of quantum systems is a central element of high-precision experiments and the development of quantum technological applications. Control pulses that are typically temporally or spatially modulated are often designed based on…

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We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

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Coherent control of quantum computations can be used to improve some quantum protocols and algorithms. For instance, the complexity of implementing the permutation of some given unitary transformations can be strictly decreased by allowing…

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Applying optimal control algorithms on realistic quantum systems confronts two key challenges: to efficiently adopt physical constraints in the optimization and to minimize the variables for the convenience of experimental tune-ups. In…

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The lack of a direct map between control fields and desired control objectives poses a significant challenge in applying quantum control theory to quantum technologies. Here, we propose an analytical framework to precisely control a limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qian-Qian Hong , Daoyi Dong , Niels E. Henriksen , Franco Nori , Jun He , Chuan-Cun Shu

The problem of quantum state preparation is one of the main challenges in achieving the quantum advantage. Furthermore, classically, for multi-level problems, our ability to solve the corresponding quantum optimal control problems is rather…

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

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Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

We develop an hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve an optimal population transfer problem for a molecule subject to a laser pulse. The evolution of the molecular wavefunction under the laser pulse is simulated on a quantum computer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Davide Castaldo , Marta Rosa , Stefano Corni

We present a gradient-based optimal-control technique for open quantum systems that utilizes quantum trajectories to simulate the quantum dynamics during optimization. Using trajectories allows for optimizing open systems with less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Mohamed Abdelhafez , David I. Schuster , Jens Koch

Quantum optimal control is a technique for controlling the evolution of a quantum system and has been applied to a wide range of problems in quantum physics. We study a binary quantum control optimization problem, where control decisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

The realization of high-fidelity quantum control is crucial for quantum information processing, particularly in noisy environments where control strategies must simultaneously achieve precise manipulation and effective noise suppression.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 JunDong Zhong , ZhaoMing Wang

The optimal control problem for open quantum systems can be formulated as a time-dependent Lindbladian that is parameterized by a number of time-dependent control variables. Given an observable and an initial state, the goal is to tune the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Wenhao He , Tongyang Li , Xiantao Li , Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang , Ke Wang

The effective use of current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices is often limited by the noise which is caused by interaction with the environment and affects the fidelity of quantum gates. In transmon qubit systems, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Elisha Siddiqui Matekole , Yao-Lung L. Fang , Meifeng Lin

Optimal control techniques provide a means to tailor the control pulses required to generate customized quantum gates, which helps to improve the resilience of quantum simulations to gate errors and device noise. However, the significant…

An optimal dynamical decoupling of a quantum system coupled to a noisy environment must take into account also the imperfections of the control pulses. We present a new formalism which describes, in a closed-form expression, the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ido Almog , Gil Loewenthal , Jonathan Coslovsky , Yoav Sagi , Nir Davidson

Optimal control theory is usually formulated as an indirect method requiring the solution of a two-point boundary value problem. Practically, the solution is obtained by iterative forward and backward propagation of quantum wavepackets.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Alejandro R. Ramos Ramos , Oliver Kühn

We consider the optimal control of quantum systems interacting non-linearly with an electromagnetic field. We propose new monotonically convergent algorithms to solve the optimal equations. The monotonic behavior of the algorithm is ensured…

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We present an efficient strategy for controlling a vast range of non-integrable quantum many body one-dimensional systems that can be merged with state-of-the-art tensor network simulation methods like the density Matrix Renormalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Patrick Doria , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero