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Optimal control theory is a versatile tool that presents a route to significantly improving figures of merit for quantum information tasks. We combine it here with the geometric theory for local equivalence classes of two-qubit operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 M. M. Müller , D. M. Reich , M. Murphy , H. Yuan , J. Vala , K. B. Whaley , T. Calarco , C. P. Koch

High-fidelity quantum operations are the cornerstone of fault-tolerant quantum computation. In open quantum systems, traditional optimal control only passively resists decoherence, leaving environment-induced uncertainty as a fundamental…

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

We introduce a novel algorithm for the task of coherently controlling a quantum mechanical system to implement any chosen unitary dynamics. It performs faster than existing state of the art methods by one to three orders of magnitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierre de Fouquieres

The ability to accurately control a quantum system is a fundamental requirement in many areas of modern science such as quantum information processing and the coherent manipulation of molecular systems. It is usually necessary to realize…

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yao Song , Junning Li , Yong-Ju Hai , Qihao Guo , Xiu-Hao Deng

Model predictive control (MPC) is one of the most successful modern control methods. It relies on repeatedly solving a finite-horizon optimal control problem and applying the beginning piece of the optimal input. In this paper, we develop a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Eya Guizani , Julian Berberich

The paper examines the prominent algorithm D-MORPH to search for the optimal control of a quantum system in order to implement desired unitary evolution of the quantum system at the final time, and reveals new mathematical expressions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Konstantin Zhdanov

An incoherent control scheme for state control of locally controllable quantum systems is proposed. This scheme includes three steps: (1) amplitude amplification of the initial state by a suitable unitary transformation, (2) projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Daoyi Dong , Chenbin Zhang , Herschel Rabitz , Alexander Pechen , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Preparing desired quantum states and quantum operations (processes) is essential for numerous tasks in quantum computation. Several approaches have been developed for optimal control of quantum states, whereas optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 M. Farnia , V. Rezvani , A. T. Rezakhani

Quantum control is valuable for various quantum technologies such as high-fidelity gates for universal quantum computing, adaptive quantum-enhanced metrology, and ultra-cold atom manipulation. Although supervised machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Pantita Palittapongarnpim , Peter Wittek , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Shakib Vedaie , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum optimal control includes the family of pulse-shaping algorithms that aim to unlock the full potential of a variety of quantum technologies. Our Quantum Optimal Control Suite (QuOCS) unites experimental focus and model-based…

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

Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way possible, has evolved into one of the cornerstones for enabling…

Quantum hypothesis testing plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies, making decisions or drawing conclusions about quantum systems based on observed data. Recently, quantum control techniques have been successfully applied to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Han Xu , Benran Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

Optical techniques have been employed to coherently control the quantum transport through nanojunctions. Conventional works on optical control of quantum transport usually applied a tailored electrical pulses to perform specific tasks. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Yu Zhang

In this paper, we present a unified computational method based on pseudospectral approximations for the design of optimal pulse sequences in open quantum systems. The proposed method transforms the problem of optimal pulse design, which is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Jr-Shin Li , Justin Ruths , Dionisis Stefanatos

Toward scalable quantum computing, the control of quantum systems needs to be robust against both coherent errors induced by parametric uncertainties and incoherent errors induced by environmental decoherence. This poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Yidian Fan , Re-Bing Wu

Coherent quantum control over many-particle quantum systems requires high fidelity dynamics. One way of achieving this is to use adiabatic schemes where the system follows an instantaneous eigenstate of the Hamiltonian over timescales that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Tom Dowdall , Albert Benseny , Thomas Busch , Andreas Ruschhaupt

Adiabatic quantum control is a very important approach for quantum physics and quantum information processing. It holds the advantage with robustness to experimental imperfections but accumulates more decoherence due to the long evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Hao Zhang , Xue-Ke Song , Qing Ai , Haibo Wang , Guo-Jian Yang , Fu-Guo Deng