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A quantum control landscape is defined as the observable as a function(al) of the system control variables. Such landscapes were introduced to provide a basis to understand the increasing number of successful experiments controlling quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Rebing Wu , Alexander Pechen , Herschel Rabitz , Michael Hsieh , Benjamin Tsou

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

It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering it provides a systematic way for driving a system from a given initial state into a desired target state with minimized expenditure of energy…

We develop a real space renormalisation group analysis of disordered models of glasses, in particular of the spin models at the origin of the Random First Order Transition theory. We find three fixed points respectively associated to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-05 Maria Chiara Angelini , Giulio Biroli

A new control method that considers all sources of uncertainty and noises that might affect the time evolutions of quantum physical systems is introduced. Under the proposed approach, the dynamics of quantum systems are characterised by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Randa Herzallah , Abdessamad Belfakir

We define an ensemble of random Clifford quantum circuits whose output state undergoes an entanglement phase transition between two volume-law phases as a function of measurement rate. Our setup maps exactly the output state to the ground…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-06 Jeremy Côté , Stefanos Kourtis

Structural defects control the kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of glasses. For instance, rare quantum tunneling two-level systems (TLS) govern the physics of glasses at very low temperature. Because of their extremely low…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-19 Simone Ciarella , Dmytro Khomenko , Ludovic Berthier , Felix C. Mocanu , David R. Reichman , Camille Scalliet , Francesco Zamponi

Emerging reinforcement learning techniques using deep neural networks have shown great promise in control optimization. They harness non-local regularities of noisy control trajectories and facilitate transfer learning between tasks. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Sergio Boixo , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Hartmut Neven

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

Finding the ground state of spin glasses is a challenging problem with broad implications. Many hard optimization problems, including NP-complete problems, can be mapped, for instance, to the Ising spin glass model. We present a graph-based…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-05 Seyed Ehsan Ghasempouri , Gerhard W. Dueck , Stijn De Baerdemacker

Constructing high-fidelity control fields that are robust to control, system, and/or surrounding environment uncertainties is a crucial objective for quantum information processing. Using the two-state Landau-Zener model for illustrative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll

In superconducting devices running variational workloads, gate and readout fidelities drift on hour timescales, while existing runtime schedulers treat backend quality as static. The temporal dimension of calibration remains unresolved. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaolong Deng

Predicting the outcomes of quantum measurements is a cornerstone of quantum information theory and a key resource for quantum technologies. Here, we introduce a comprehensive framework for quantifying the predictability of measurements on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Dennis I. Martínez-Moreno , Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Diego G. Bussandri

We provide a rigorous analysis of the quantum optimal control problem in the setting of a linear combination $s(t)B+(1-s(t))C$ of two noncommuting Hamiltonians $B$ and $C$. This includes both quantum annealing (QA) and the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Domenico D'Alessandro , Daniel A. Lidar

Manipulation of infinite dimensional quantum systems is important to controlling complex quantum dynamics with many practical physical and chemical backgrounds. In this paper, a general investigation is casted to the controllability problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Re-Bing Wu , Tzyh-Jong Tarn , Chun-Wen Li

Quantum computing devices require exceptional control of their experimental parameters to prepare quantum states and simulate other quantum systems. Classical optimization procedures used to find such optimal control parameters, have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Matthew Duschenes , Juan Carrasquilla , Raymond Laflamme

Spin-glasses are universal models that can capture complex behavior of many-body systems at the interface of statistical physics and computer science including discrete optimization, inference in graphical models, and automated reasoning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Gavin S. Hartnett , Masoud Mohseni

Quantum probes that enable enhanced exploration and characterization of complex systems are central to modern science, spanning applications from biology to astrophysics and chemical design. In large many-body quantum systems, interactions…

Quantum optimal control is a set of methods for designing time-varying electromagnetic fields to perform operations in quantum technologies. This tutorial paper introduces the basic elements of this theory based on the Pontryagin maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Q. Ansel , E. Dionis , F. Arrouas , B. Peaudecerf , S. Guérin , D. Guéry-Odelin , D. Sugny

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