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A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

Control of open quantum systems is an essential ingredient to the realization of contemporary quantum science and technology. We demonstrate such control by employing a thermodynamically consistent framework, taking into account the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We describe quantum controllability under the influences of the quantum decoherence induced by the quantum control itself. It is shown that, when the controller is considered as a quantum system, it will entangle with its controlled system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fei Xue , S. X. Yu , C. P. Sun

In this paper, we demonstrate an approach to quantum robust control based on the tools of geometric optimal control. The central objects of interest are the sensitivity functions defined as the coefficients in the Taylor expansion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

Precision control of quantum systems is the driving force for both quantum technology and the probing of physics at the quantum and nano-scale. We propose an implementation independent method for in situ quantum control that leverages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Christopher Ferrie , Osama Moussa

In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Martin Gugat , Michael Schuster , Enrique Zuazua

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Constantin Brif , Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

The KWC system is a well-known generic framework for phase-field models of grain boundary motion, whose original formulation is given as a parabolic gradient flow of a free energy. In the original KWC system, the results of uniqueness have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Harbir Antil , Daiki Mizuno , Ken Shirakawa

Despite significant progress in theoretical and laboratory quantum control, engineering quantum systems remains principally challenging due to manifestation of noise and uncertainties associated with the field and Hamiltonian parameters. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Andrew Koswara , Vaibhav Bhutoria , Raj Chakrabarti

A theoretical framework and numerical techniques to solve optimal control problems with a spatial trace term in the terminal cost and governed by regularized nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws are provided. Depending on the spatial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Sébastien Court , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

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 study the controllability of a closed control-affine quantum system driven by two or more external fields. We provide a sufficient condition for controllability in terms of existence of conical intersections between eigenvalues of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ugo Boscain , Jean-Paul Gauthier , Francesco Rossi , Mario Sigalotti

Classical simulations of time-dependent quantum systems are widely used in quantum control research. In particular, these simulations are commonly used to host iterative optimal control algorithms. This is convenient for algorithms that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tyler Jones , Kaiah Steven , Xavier Poncini , Matthew Rose , Arkady Fedorov

Differential sensitivity techniques originally developed to study the robustness of energy landscape controllers are generalized to the important case of closed quantum systems subject to continuously varying controls. Vanishing sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Sean Patrick O'Neil , Edmond Jonckheere , Sophie Schirmer

We describe algorithms, and experimental strategies, for the Pareto optimal control problem of simultaneously driving an arbitrary number of quantum observable expectation values to their respective extrema. Conventional quantum optimal…

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

We propose a technique to design control algorithms for a class of finite dimensional quantum systems so that the control law does not present discontinuities. The class of models considered admits a group of symmetries which allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Domenico D'Alessandro , Benjamin Sheller

We study the application of a generalized form of the level set method used in classical physical contexts to quantum optimal control situations. The set of OCT equations needed to keep the expectation value of an observable constant is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fariel Shafee

Various constraints concerning control fields can be imposed in the realistic implementations of quantum control systems. One of the most important is the restriction on the frequency spectrum of acceptable control parameters. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

Current studies about the continuous-variable systems in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics heavily revolved around the singularities in the eigenspectrum by mimicking their discrete-variable counterparts. Discussions over the nonunitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

This paper is concerned with the coherent quantum linear-quadratic-Gaussian control problem of minimising an infinite-horizon mean square cost for a measurement-free field-mediated interconnection of a quantum plant with a stabilising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen