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In this work, we extend the quantum optimal control theory of molecules subject to ultrashort laser pulses to the case of solvated systems, explicitly including the solvent dielectric properties in the system Hamiltonian. A reliable…

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Within the framework of optimal control theory we develop a simple iterative scheme to determine optimal laser pulses with spectral and fluence constraints. The algorithm is applied to a one-dimensional asymmetric double well where the…

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Quantum optimal control methods are widely used to design experimental control pulses such as laser amplitudes, phases, or detunings, that implement a target unitary evolution. In practice, what makes a pulse "good" depends not only on its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dylan Lewis , Roeland Wiersema

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimum-time optimal control for a dynamical system with initial state uncertainties and propose a sequential convex programming (SCP) solution framework. We seek to minimize the expected terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Kazuya Echigo , Abhishek Cauligi , Behçet Açıkmeşe

The presence of decoherence in quantum computers necessitates the suppression of noise. Dynamically corrected gates via specially designed control pulses offer a path forward, but hardware-specific experimental constraints can cause…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Utkan Güngördü , J. P. Kestner

Resolving signals with closely spaced frequencies is central to applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. Recent results have shown that quantum sensing protocols can exhibit superresolution, the ability to discriminate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Joseph T. Iosue , Paraj Titum , Taohan Lin , Clare Lau , Leigh M. Norris

Quantum pseudorandomness, also known as unitary designs, comprise a powerful resource for quantum computation and quantum engineering. While it is known in theory that pseudorandom unitary operators can be constructed efficiently, realizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jun Li , Zhihuang Luo , Tao Xin , Hengyan Wang , David Kribs , Dawei Lu , Bei Zeng , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum optimal control involves setting up an objective function that evaluates the quality of an operator representing the realized process w.r.t. the target process. Here we propose a stronger objective function which incorporates not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Priya Batra , V. R. Krithika , T. S. Mahesh

Simulating open quantum systems on quantum computers presents a fundamental challenge: open quantum dynamics are intrinsically nonunitary, whereas quantum computers operate through unitary evolution. Conventional approaches overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sameer Dambal , Akira Sone , Yu Zhang

We apply theoretically open-loop quantum optimal control techniques to provide methods for the verification of various quantum coherent transport mechanisms in natural and artificial light-harvesting complexes under realistic experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Filippo Caruso , Simone Montangero , Tommaso Calarco , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Traditional stochastic optimal control methods that attempt to obtain an optimal feedback policy for nonlinear systems are computationally intractable. In this paper, we derive a decoupling principle between the open loop plan, and the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Karthikeya S Parunandi , Suman Chakravorty

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms hold great promise for solving quantum control problems on near-term quantum computers. In this work, we employ the hybrid framework that integrates digital quantum simulation with classical optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tangyou Huang , Jing-Jun Zhu , Zhong-Yi Ni

Quantum optimal control has numerous important applications ranging from pulse shaping in magnetic-resonance imagining to laser control of chemical reactions and quantum computing. Our objective is to address two major challenges that have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Jakub Marecek , Jiri Vala

Quantum state control is a fundamental tool for quantum technologies. In this work, we propose and analyze the use of quantum optimal control to exploit the dipolar interaction of ultracold atoms on a lattice ring, focusing on the…

Many practical applications of optimal control are subject to real-time computational constraints. When applying model predictive control (MPC) in these settings, respecting timing constraints is achieved by limiting the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Anusha Srikanthan , Aren Karapetyan , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni

This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

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Effective epidemic control is crucial for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, particularly when pharmaceutical interventions such as vaccines or treatments are limited. Non-pharmaceutical strategies, including mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-03 Deborah Volpe , Giacomo Orlandi , Mattia Boggio , Carlo Novara , Lorenzo Zino , Giovanna Turvani

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

Experiments in coherent spectroscopy correspond to control of quantum mechanical ensembles guiding them from initial to final target states. The control inputs (pulse sequences) that accomplish these transformations should be designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Navin Khaneja , Timo Reiss , Burkhard Luy , Steffen J. Glaser

Quantum computing requires the optimization of control pulses to achieve high-fidelity quantum gates. We propose a machine learning-based protocol to address the challenges of evaluating gradients and modeling complex system dynamics. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Paul Surrey , Julian D. Teske , Tobias Hangleiter , Hendrik Bluhm , Pascal Cerfontaine