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Adiabatic quantum computation employs a slow change of a time-dependent control function (or functions) to interpolate between an initial and final Hamiltonian, which helps to keep the system in the instantaneous ground state. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Constantin Brif , Matthew D. Grace , Mohan Sarovar , Kevin C. Young

Adiabatic quantum computing is a universal model for quantum computing whose implementation using a gate-based quantum computer requires depths that are unreachable in the early fault-tolerant era. To mitigate the limitations of near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ioannis Kolotouros , Ioannis Petrongonas , Miloš Prokop , Petros Wallden

We present a general protocol to control closed quantum systems that is based on minimising the adiabatic action. Using tools based on the geometry of quantum evolutions through the quantum adiabatic brachistochrone, we show that high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Ainur Kazhybekova , Steve Campbell , Anthony Kiely

We analyze the efficiency of protocols for adiabatic quantum state transfer assisted by an engineered reservoir. The target dynamics is a quantum trajectory in the Hilbert space and is a fixed point of a time-dependent master equation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Emma C. King , Luigi Giannelli , Raphaël Menu , Johannes N. Kriel , Giovanna Morigi

The design of efficient quantum information processing will rely on optimal nonequilibrium transitions of driven quantum systems. Building on a recently-developed geometric framework for computing optimal protocols for classical systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Patrick R. Zulkowski , Michael R. DeWeese

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…

We consider the optimal driving of the ground state of a many-body quantum system across a quantum phase transition in finite time. In this context, excitations caused by the breakdown of adiabaticity can be minimized by adjusting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 András Grabarits , Federico Balducci , Barry C. Sanders , Adolfo del Campo

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and data science. While existing methods such as Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Davide Cugini , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mario Motta , Dario Gerace

Counter-diabatic driving protocols were proposed as a means to do fast changes in the Hamiltonian without exciting transitions. Such driving in principle allows one to realize arbitrarily fast annealing protocols or implement fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…

Local counterdiabatic driving (CD) provides a feasible approach for realizing approximate reversible/adiabatic processes like quantum state preparation using only local controls and without demanding excessively long protocol times.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Stewart Morawetz , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Motivated by recent progress in the experimental manipulation of cold atoms in optical lattices, we study three different protocols for non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. The protocols we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Maike Ostmann , Jiří Minář , Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Igor Lesanovsky

We present a coherent counter-diabatic quantum protocol to prepare ground states in the lattice gauge mapping of all-to-all Ising models (LHZ) with considerably enhanced final ground state fidelity compared to a quantum annealing protocol.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Andreas Hartmann , Wolfgang Lechner

Many physically interesting models show a quantum phase transition when a single parameter is varied through a critical point, where the ground state and the first excited state become degenerate. When this parameter appears as a coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Gernot Schaller

We adopt a geometric approach to describe the performance of adiabatic quantum machines, operating under slow time-dependent driving and in contact to two or more reservoirs with a temperature bias during all the cycle. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Pablo Terren Alonso , Paolo Abiuso , Marti Perarnau-Llobet , Liliana Arrachea

We present experimental results on the preparation of a desired quantum state in a two-level system with the maximum possible fidelity using driving protocols ranging from generalizations of the linear Landau-Zener protocol to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 N. Malossi , M. G. Bason , M. Viteau , E. Arimondo , R. Mannella , O. Morsch , D. Ciampini

In recent quantum algorithmic developments, a feedback-based approach has shown promise for preparing quantum many-body system ground states and solving combinatorial optimization problems. This method utilizes quantum Lyapunov control to…

Designing multi-qubit quantum logic gates with experimental constraints is an important problem in quantum computing. Here, we develop a new quantum optimal control algorithm for finding unitary transformations with constraints on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Dylan Lewis , Roeland Wiersema , Sougato Bose

Preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian is a problem of great significance in physics with deep implications in the field of combinatorial optimization. The adiabatic algorithm is known to return the ground state for sufficiently long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura , J. Ignacio Cirac

Properly designed control has been shown to be particularly advantageous for improving AQC accuracy and time complexity scaling. Here, an \emph{in situ} quantum control optimization protocol is developed to indirectly optimize state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gregory Quiroz