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This work focuses on optimizing the gates of a quantum circuit with a given topology to approximate the unitary time evolution governed by a Hamiltonian. Recognizing that unitary matrices form a mathematical manifold, we employ Riemannian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Fabian Putterer , Max M. Zumpe , Isabel Nha Minh Le , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

Quantum Lyapunov control was developed in order to transform a quantum system from arbitrary initial states to a target state. The idea is to find control fields that steer the Lyapunov function to zero as $t\rightarrow \infty$, meanwhile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. C. Hou , M. A. Khan , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , X. X. Yi

Quantum control for error correction is critical for the practical use of quantum computers. We address quantum optimal control for single-shot multi-qubit gates by framing as a feasibility problem for the Hamiltonian model and then solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Raymond J. Spiteri , Marina Schmidt , Joydip Ghosh , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Barry C. Sanders

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Boris O. Volkov , Oleg V. Morzhin , Alexander N. Pechen

The controlled-not gate and the single qubit gates are considered elementary gates in quantum computing. It is natural to ask how many such elementary gates are needed to implement more elaborate gates or circuits. Recall that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang Song , Andreas Klappenecker

Optimal implementation of quantum gates is crucial for designing a quantum computer. We consider the matrix representation of an arbitrary multiqubit gate. By ordering the basis vectors using the Gray code, we construct the quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juha J. Vartiainen , Mikko Mottonen , Martti M. Salomaa

In variational quantum algorithms, parameterization is typically applied to single-qubit gates.In this study, we instead parameterize a generalized controlled gate and propose an algorithm to locally minimize the cost function by maximally…

We present a monotonic numerical algorithm including time optimization for generating quantum gates for open systems. Such systems are assumed to be governed by Lindblad master equations for the density operators on a large Hilbert-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Paulo Sergio Pereira da Silva , Pierre Rouchon

The performance of a quantum information processor depends on the precise control of phases introduced into the system during quantum gate operations. As the number of operations increases with the complexity of a computation, the phases of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 I. V. Inlek , G. Vittorini , D. Hucul , C. Crocker , C. Monroe

We investigate the quantum computing paradigm consisted of obtaining a target state that encodes the solution of a certain computational task by evolving the system with a combination of the problem-Hamiltonian and the driving-Hamiltonian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Marllos E. F. Fernandes , Emanuel F. de Lima , Leonardo K. Castelano

High-fidelity gate implementation requires sophisticated control pulses that steer the quantum system to undergo the desired transformation. Quantum Optimal Control allows to derive these control pulses in an open-loop fashion based on…

We consider the problem of carrying an initial Bloch vector to a final Bloch vector in a specified amount of time under the action of three control fields (a vector control field). We show that this control problem is solvable and therefore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 K. M. Fonseca-Romero , G. Useche-Laverde , F. Torres-Ardila

Optimal control theory is developed for the task of obtaining a primary objective in a subspace of the Hilbert space while avoiding other subspaces of the Hilbert space. The primary objective can be a state-to-state transition or a unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-13 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff , Christiane P. Koch

An efficient optimal-control theory based on the Krotov method is introduced for a non-Markovian open quantum system with a time-nonlocal master equation in which the control parameter and the bath correlation function are correlated. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Bin Hwang , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Variational compression can significantly lower implementation overheads for encoding the time evolution of Hamiltonians into quantum circuits. However, they usually lack global convergence guarantees and well-established scaling behavior.…

We report on the first experimental realization of optimal linear-optical controlled phase gates for arbitrary phases. The realized scheme is entirely flexible in that the phase shift can be tuned to any given value. All such controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Karel Lemr , Antonin Cernoch , Jan Soubusta , Konrad Kieling , Jens Eisert , Miloslav Dusek

Quantum computation is based on implementing selected unitary transformations which represent algorithms. A generalized optimal control theory is used to find the driving field that generates a prespecified unitary transformation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff

This paper presents novel methods for optimizing multi-controlled quantum gates, which naturally arise in high-level quantum programming. Our primary approach involves rewriting $U(2)$ gates as $SU(2)$ gates, utilizing one auxiliary qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Evandro C. R. Rosa , Eduardo I. Duzzioni , Rafael de Santiago

We introduce a new scheme for quantum circuit design called controlled gate networks. Rather than trying to reduce the complexity of individual unitary operations, the new strategy is to toggle between all of the unitary operations needed…

We present a simple proof of the minimum time for the quantum evolution between two arbitrary states. This proof is performed in the absence of any geometrical arguments. Then, being in the geometric framework of quantum evolutions based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing