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This paper is concerned with stochastic Hamiltonian systems which model a class of open dynamical systems subject to random external forces. Their dynamics are governed by Ito stochastic differential equations whose structure is specified…

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We present a framework for simulating the open dynamics of spin-boson systems by combining variational non-Gaussian states with a quantum trajectories approach. We apply this method to a generic spin-boson Hamiltonian that has both…

A natural formulation of the theory of quantum measurements in continuous time is based on quantum stochastic differential equations (Hudson-Parthasarathy equations). However, such a theory was developed only in the case of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Ricardo Castro Santis , Alberto Barchielli

The information of quantum pathways can be extracted in the framework of the Hamiltonian-encoding and Observable-decoding method. For closed quantum systems, only off-diagonal elements of the Hamiltonian in the Hilbert space is required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Yaoxiong Wang , Ling Yang , Ying Wang , Shouzhi Li , Dewen Cao , Qing Gao , Feng Shuang , Fang Gao

We derive and investigate a general non-Markovian equation for the time-dependence of a Hamiltonian that maximizes the fidelity of a desired quantum gate on any finite-dimensional quantum system in the presence of arbitrary bath and noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Jens Clausen , Guy Bensky , Gershon Kurizki

We develop a general optimization strategy for performing a chosen unitary or non-unitary task on an open quantum system. The goal is to design a controlled time-dependent system Hamiltonian by variationally minimizing or maximizing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Jens Clausen , Guy Bensky , Gershon Kurizki

In this work, we propose a novel variational quantum approach for solving a class of nonlinear optimal control problems. Our approach integrates Dirac's canonical quantization of dynamical systems with the solution of the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Hirmay Sandesara , Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

The sensitivity of the evolution of quantum uncertainties to the choice of the initial conditions is shown via a complex nonlinear Riccati equation leading to a reformulation of quantum dynamics. This sensitivity is demonstrated for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hans Cruz , Dieter Schuch , Octavio Castaños , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

In this paper we present a general framework that allows one to study discretization of certain dynamical systems. This generalizes earlier work on discretization of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on tangent bundles and cotangent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent M. Guibout , Anthony M. Bloch

In this paper, we study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a Poisson random martingale measure and a multidimensional Brownian motion. Firstly, the existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

The motivation for studying non-Hermitian systems and the role of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry is discussed. We investigate the use of a quantum algorithm to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, with applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 James Hancock , Matthew J. Craven , Craig McNeile , Davide Vadacchino

A stochastic representation of the dynamics of open quantum systems, suitable for non-perturbative system-reservoir interaction, non-Markovian effects and arbitrarily driven systems is presented. It includes the case of driving on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jürgen T. Stockburger

This paper is concerned with the generation of Gaussian invariant states in cascades of open quantum harmonic oscillators governed by linear quantum stochastic differential equations. We carry out infinitesimal perturbation analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen , Matthew R. James

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement. Using a quantum noise model to describe the stochastic evolution of the open quantum system and working in parallel with classical indeterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Edwards , V. P. Belavkin

We investigate the optimal control of open quantum systems, in particular, the mutual influence of driving and dissipation. A stochastic approach to open-system control is developed, using a generalized version of Krotov's iterative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Rebecca Schmidt , Antonio Negretti , Joachim Ankerhold , Tommaso Calarco , Jürgen T. Stockburger

Motivated by recent developments in Hamiltonian variational principles, Hamiltonian variational integrators, and their applications such as to optimization and control, we present a new Type II variational approach for Hamiltonian systems,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Brian K. Tran , Melvin Leok

We present control schemes for open quantum systems that combine decoupling and universal control methods with coding procedures. By exploiting a general algebraic approach, we show how appropriate encodings of quantum states result in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lorenza Viola , Emanuel Knill , Seth Lloyd

Open quantum systems host a wide range of intriguing phenomena, yet their simulation on well-controlled quantum devices is challenging, owing to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space and the inherently non-unitary nature of the…

We propose dynamical control schemes for Hamiltonian simulation in many-body quantum systems that avoid instantaneous control operations and rely solely on realistic bounded-strength control Hamiltonians. Each simulation protocol consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Adam D. Bookatz , Pawel Wocjan , Lorenza Viola

The most widely used approach for simulating the dynamics of time-dependent Hamiltonians via quantum computation depends on the quantum-classical hybrid variational quantum time evolution algorithm, in which ordinary differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Minchen Qiao , Zi-Ming Li , Yu-xi Liu