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In this note we give an introduction to the topic of quantum control, explaining what its objectives are, and describing some of its limitations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. I. Solomon , S. G. Schirmer

Coherent control, aka quantum control, is a central concept in quantum computing that is attracting increasing attention from both the quantum foundations and quantum software communities. Defining coherent control in the presence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kathleen Barsse , Romain Péchoux , Simon Perdrix

Feedback control in open quantum dynamics is crucial for the advancement of various coherent platforms. However, currently only a handful of feedback master equations exist in the literature, which are restricted to specific types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Alberto J. B. Rosal , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi

We give an introduction to feedback control in quantum systems, as well as an overview of the variety of applications which have been explored to date. This introductory review is aimed primarily at control theorists unfamiliar with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kurt Jacobs

We present a formulation of feedback in quantum systems in which the best estimates of the dynamical variables are obtained continuously from the measurement record, and fed back to control the system. We apply this method to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Doherty , K. Jacobs

In this paper, we analyze classical and quantum physical systems from an optimal control perspective. Specifically, we explore whether their associated dynamics can correspond to an open or closed-loop feedback evolution of a control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Mauricio Contreras G. , Marcelo Villena

The development of estimation and control theories for quantum systems is a fundamental task for practical quantum technology. This vision article presents a brief introduction to challenging problems and potential opportunities in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Daoyi Dong , Ian R Petersen

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Constantin Brif , Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

The limits of quantum feedback control have immediate consequences for quantum information science at large, yet remain largely unexplored. Here, we combine quantum filtering theory and moment-sum-of-squares techniques to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Flemming Holtorf , Frank Schäfer , Julian Arnold , Christopher Rackauckas , Alan Edelman

Conventional approaches for controlling open quantum systems use coherent control which affects the system's evolution through the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics. Such control, although being extremely efficient for a large variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alexander Pechen , Herschel Rabitz

We describe quantum controllability under the influences of the quantum decoherence induced by the quantum control itself. It is shown that, when the controller is considered as a quantum system, it will entangle with its controlled system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fei Xue , S. X. Yu , C. P. Sun

Feedback is the core concept in cybernetics and its effective use has made great success in but not limited to the fields of engineering, biology, and computer science. When feedback is used to quantum systems, two major types of feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Lijun Liu , Zairong Xi

Quantum control theory is profitably reexamined from the perspective of quantum information, two results on the role of quantum information technology in quantum feedback control are presented and two quantum feedback control schemes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dao-Yi Dong , Chen-Bin Zhang , Zong-Hai Chen

The theory of controlled quantum open systems describes quantum systems interacting with quantum environments and influenced by external forces varying according to given algorithms. It is aimed, for instance, to model quantum devices which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Robert Alicki

A goal of the emerging field of quantum control is to develop methods for quantum technologies to function robustly in the presence of noise. Central issues are the fundamental limitations on the available information about quantum systems…

Control of open quantum systems is an essential ingredient to the realization of contemporary quantum science and technology. We demonstrate such control by employing a thermodynamically consistent framework, taking into account the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We investigate feedback control of linear quantum systems subject to feedback-loop time delays. In particular, we examine the relation between the potentially achievable control performance and the time delays, and provide theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kazunori Nishio , Kenji Kashima , Jun-ichi Imura

We present a new analysis on the quantum control for a quantum system coupled to a quantum probe. This analysis is based on the coherent control for the quantum system and a hyperthesis that the probe can be prepared in specified initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 J. Nie , H. C. Fu , X. X. Yi

Quantum feedback is a technique for measuring a qubit and applying appropriate feedback depending on the measurement results. Here, we propose a new on-chip quantum feedback method where the measurement-result information is not taken from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 K. Kakuyanagi , A. Kemp , T. Baba , Y. Matsuzaki , H. Nakano , K. Semba , S. Saito

Coherent feedback is a non-measurement based, hence a back-action free, method of control for quantum systems. A typical application of this control scheme is squeezing enhancement, a purely non-classical effect in quantum optics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Sanae Iida , Mitsuyoshi Yukawa , Hidehiro Yonezawa , Naoki Yamamoto , Akira Furusawa