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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

We characterize the quantum gate fidelity in a state-independent manner by giving an explicit expression for its variance. The method we provide can be extended to calculate all higher order moments of the gate fidelity. Using these results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Easwar Magesan , Robin Blume-Kohout , Joseph Emerson

Robust, accurate and efficient quantum tomography is key for future quantum technologies. Traditional methods are impractical for even medium sized systems and are not robust against noise and errors. Here we report on an experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Robert J. Chapman , Christopher Ferrie , Alberto Peruzzo

The rapid growth in size of quantum devices demands efficient ways to control them, which is challenging for systems with thousands of qubits or more. Here, we present a simple yet powerful solution: robust, site-dependent control of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Wenjie Gong , Soonwon Choi

As quantum circuits become more integrated and complex, additional error sources that were previously insignificant start to emerge. Consequently, the fidelity of quantum gates benchmarked under pristine conditions falls short of predicting…

Mitigating noise-induced decoherence is the central challenge in controlling open quantum systems. While existing robust protocols often require precise noise models, we introduce a universal framework for noise-agnostic quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Lixiang Ding , Jingtao Fan , Xingze Qiu

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

High-fidelity control of quantum systems is essential for scalable quantum technologies. We introduce a shooting-based method which yields smooth control pulses designed to implement gates on discrete quantum systems, and demonstrate its…

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

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

Coherent control errors, for which ideal Hamiltonians are perturbed by unknown multiplicative noise terms, are a major obstacle for reliable quantum computing. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the robustness of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Julian Berberich , Daniel Fink , Christian Holm

Control pulses that nominally optimize fidelity are sensitive to routine hardware drift and modeling errors. Robust quantum optimal control seeks error-insensitive control pulses that maintain fidelity thresholds and obey hardware…

Fastness and robustness are both critical in the implementation of high-fidelity gates for quantum computation, but in practice, a trade-off has to be made between them. In this paper, we investigate the underlying robust time-optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Xi Cao , Jiangyu Cui , Man Hong Yung , Re-Bing Wu

This paper considers a class of uncertain linear quantum systems subject to uncertain perturbations in the system Hamiltonian. We present a method to design a coherent robust H-infinity controller so that the closed loop system is robustly…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Chengdi Xiang , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

The central challenge of quantum computing is implementing high-fidelity quantum gates at scale. However, many existing approaches to qubit control suffer from a scale-performance trade-off, impeding progress towards the creation of useful…

Developments in the foundations of quantum mechanics have identified several attributes and tests associated with the "quantumness" of systems, including entanglement, nonlocality, quantum erasure, Bell test, etc. Here we introduce and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Torsten Scholak , Paul Brumer

The implementation of quantum gates with fidelities that exceed the threshold for reliable quantum computing requires robust gates whose performance is not limited by the precision of the available control fields. The performance of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-30 Alexandre M. Souza , Roberto S. Sarthour , Ivan S. Oliveira , Dieter Suter

Geometric phase is a promising element to induce high-fidelity and robust quantum operations due to its built-in noise-resilience feature. Unfortunately, its practical applications are usually circumscribed by requiring complex interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Tao Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Robust and high-fidelity control of electron spins in solids is the cornerstone for facilitating applications of solid-state spins in quantum information processing and quantum sensing. However, precise control of spin systems is always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Yifan Zhang , Hao Wu , Xiaodong Yang , Ye-Xin Wang , Chang Liu , Qing Zhao , Jiyang Ma , Jun Li , Bo Zhang

Quantum computers are poised to radically outperform their classical counterparts by manipulating coherent quantum systems. A realistic quantum computer will experience errors due to the environment and imperfect control. When these errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson