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Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics is one of the most fundamental and significant tasks for characterising quantum materials. Recently, a series of quantum algorithms employing block-encoding of Hamiltonians have succeeded in providing…

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Formation control methods of connected and automated vehicles have been proposed to smoothly switch the structure of vehicular formations in different scenarios. In the previous research, simulations are often conducted to verify the…

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Predicting the response of an observed system to a known input is a fruitful first step to accurately control the system's dynamics. Despite the recent advances in fully data-driven algorithms, the most interpretable way to reach this goal…

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In this work we present an effective Hamiltonian description of the quantum dynamics of a generalized Lambda system undergoing adiabatic evolution. We assume the system to be initialized in the dark subspace and show that its holonomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 V. O. Shkolnikov , Guido Burkard

In this work, we investigate how and to which extent a quantum system can be driven along a prescribed path in Hilbert space by a suitably shaped laser pulse. To calculate the optimal, i.e., the variationally best pulse, a properly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Serban , J. Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alfio Borzi , Georg Stadler , Ulrich Hohenester

Advancing quantum technologies requires precise and robust coherent control of quantum systems. Robust higher-order Hamiltonian engineering is essential for high-precision control and for accessing effective dynamics absent at zeroth order.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jiahui Chen , David Cory

Building on recent advances in quantum algorithms which measure and reuse qubits and in efficient classical simulation leveraging projective measurements, we extend these frameworks to real-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Bo Xiao , Benedikt Kloss , E. Miles Stoudenmire

We present deterministic algorithms for the simultaneous control of an arbitrary number of quantum observables. Unlike optimal control approaches based on cost function optimization, quantum multiobservable tracking control (MOTC) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raj Chakrabarti , Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz

We present a low-space overhead simulation algorithm based on the truncated Dyson series for time-dependent quantum dynamics. This algorithm is applied to simulating time-independent Hamiltonians by transitioning to the interaction picture,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Guang Hao Low , Nathan Wiebe

We investigate how unitary control can improve parameter estimation by designing the effective spectrum of the imprinting Hamiltonian. We show that, for commuting Hamiltonians, the general problem of spectral manipulation via unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Paul Aigner , Wolfgang Dür

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Frederic Sauvage , Florian Mintert

Analog quantum simulators with global control fields have emerged as powerful platforms for exploring complex quantum phenomena. Despite these advances, a fundamental theoretical question remains unresolved: to what extent can such systems…

We describe a simple quantum algorithm to simulate time-dependent Hamiltonian, extending the methodology of quantum signal processing. The framework achieves optimal scaling up to some factor with respect to other parameters, and nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nhat A. Nghiem

The importance of feedback control is being increasingly appreciated in quantum physics and applications. This paper describes the use of optimal control methods in the design of quantum feedback control systems, and in particular the paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. James

We apply the method of transitionless quantum driving for time-dependent quantum systems to spin systems. For a given Hamiltonian, the driving Hamiltonian is constructed so that the adiabatic states of the original system obey the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Kazutaka Takahashi

We experimentally observe Floquet Raman transitions in the weakly driven solid state spin system of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. The periodically driven spin system simulates a two-band Wannier-Stark ladder model, and allows us to…

We study the interplay between rotating wave approximation and optimal control. In particular, we show that for a wide class of optimal control problems one can choose the control field such that the Hamiltonian becomes time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Maximilian Keck , Matthias M. Müller , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

This paper considers linear-quadratic control of a non-linear dynamical system subject to arbitrary cost. I show that for this class of stochastic control problems the non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be transformed into a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. J. Kappen

Demonstrating the ability of existing quantum platforms to perform certain computational tasks intractable to classical computers represents a cornerstone in quantum computing. Despite the growing number of such proposed "quantum supreme"…