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Reliable quantum information technologies depend on precise actuation and techniques to mitigate the effects of undesired disturbances such as environmental noise and imperfect calibration. In this work, we present a general framework based…

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We consider the optimal control of quantum systems interacting non-linearly with an electromagnetic field. We propose new monotonically convergent algorithms to solve the optimal equations. The monotonic behavior of the algorithm is ensured…

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With the advent of quantum technologies, control issues are becoming increasingly important. In this article, we address the control in phase space under a global constraint provided by a minimal energy-like cost function and a local (in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Qi Zhang , Xi Chen , David Guéry-Odelin

We investigate the time-optimal solution of the selective control of two uncoupled spin 1/2 particles. Using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we derive the global time-optimal pulses for two spins with different offsets. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 L. Van Damme , Q. Ansel , S. J. Glaser , D. Sugny

Robust control of quantum systems is an increasingly relevant field of study amidst the second quantum revolution, but there remains a gap between taming quantum physics and robust control in its modern analytical form that culminated in…

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

Considering the problem of the control of a two-state quantum system by an external field, we establish a general and versatile method that allows the derivation of smooth pulses, suitable for ultrafast applications, that feature the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Daems , A. Ruschhaupt , D. Sugny , S. Guerin

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

Precise control of quantum systems is one of the most important milestones for achieving practical quantum technologies, such as computation, sensing, and communication. Several factors deteriorate the control precision and thus their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Shingo Kukita , Haruki Kiya , Yasushi Kondo

Reliable high-fidelity quantum state transformation has always been considered as an inseparable part of quantum information processing. In this regard, Pontryagin maximum principle has proved to play an important role to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

Robust open-loop steering of a finite-dimensional quantum system is a central problem in a growing number of applications of information engineering. In the present paper, we reformulate the problem in the classical control-theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Ticozzi , Augusto Ferrante , Michele Pavon

The optimal control of two-level systems by time-dependent laser fields is studied using a variational theory. We obtain, for the first time, general analytical expressions for the optimal pulse shapes leading to global maximization or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Garcia , Ilia Grigorenko

Using the Pontryagin maximum principle, the generic structure of optimal policies is deduced for typical quantum control tasks involving coherent lasers, magnetic fields and reservoir engineering. In addition, the periodic optimization is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Tamar Seideman

We derive the explicit solution of the problem of time-optimal control by a common magnetic fields for two independent spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles. Our approach is based on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and a novel symmetry reduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Yunlan Ji , Ji Bian , Min Jiang , Domenico D'Alessandro , Xinhua Peng

In this paper, the Pontryagin-type maximum principle for optimal control of quantum stochastic systems in fermion fields is obtained. These systems have gained significant prominence in numerous quantum applications ranging from physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Penghui Wang , Shan Wang

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have highlighted the importance of mitigating system imperfections, including parameter uncertainties and decoherence effects, to improve the performance of experimental platforms. However, most…

In various physical implementations of quantum information processing, qubits are realized in a Lambda type system configuration as two stable lower energy levels coupled indirectly via an unstable higher energy level, that is, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Julia Cen , Domenico D'Alessandro

We show that if an efficient classical representation of the dynamics exists, optimal control problems on many-body quantum systems can be solved efficiently with finite precision. We show that the size of the space of parameters necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 S. Lloyd , S. Montangero

Coherent carrier control in quantum nanostructures is studied within the framework of Optimal Control. We develop a general solution scheme for the optimization of an external control (e.g., lasers pulses), which allows to channel the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alfio Borzi , Georg Stadler , Ulrich Hohenester