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A spatially-selective and internal-state-selective triggering pulse is an important component to realize the unitary dynamical state-locking process which may be used to realize the reversible and unitary halting protocol and construct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Xijia Miao

In this article, we develop a numerical method to find optimal control pulses that accounts for the separation of timescales between the variation of the input control fields and the applied Hamiltonian. In traditional numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 F. Motzoi , J. M. Gambetta , S. T. Merkel , F. K. Wilhelm

High-precision quantum control is essential for quantum computing and quantum information processing. However, its practical implementation is challenged by environmental noise, which affects the stability and accuracy of quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Zhao-Wei Wang , Hong-Yang Ma , Yun-An Yan , Lian-Ao Wu , Zhao-Ming Wang

We present a comprehensive framework for constructing various architectures of globally driven quantum computers, with a focus on superconducting qubits. Our approach leverages static inhomogeneities in the Rabi frequencies of qubits…

In recent years, control methods based on different optimization techniques have shed light on the possibilities of processing information in many quantum systems. When exploring the transmission of quantum states, faster transmission times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Sofía Perón Santana , Ariel Fiuri , Martín Domínguez , Omar Osenda

In this paper, we explore how to constructively manipulate qubits by rotating Bloch spheres. It is revealed that three-rotation and one-rotation Hamiltonian controls can be constructed to steer qubits when two tunable Hamiltonian controls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Ming Zhang , Zairong Xi , Jia-Hua Wei

Different platforms for quantum computation are currently being developed with a steadily increasing number of physical qubits. To make today's devices practical for quantum software engineers, novel programming tools with maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Cubeddu , Will Finigan , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

We propose and analyze a new approach to the coherent control and manipulation of quantum degrees of freedom in disordered, interacting systems in the many-body localized phase. Our approach leverages a number of unique features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Soonwon Choi , Norman Y. Yao , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Mikhail D. Lukin

We present a switching control strategy based on Lyapunov control for arbitrary state transitions in open qubit systems. With coherent vector representation, we propose a switching control strategy, which can prevent the state of the qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Guangpu Wu , Shibei Xue , Shan Ma , Sen Kuang , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen

We present and implement a new scheme for independent control of both the final and the transient population utilizing the symmetry properties of the system. By proper pulse shaping, utilizing the invariance of the two-photon absorption to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Andrey Gandman , Leonid Rybak , Michal Bronstein , Naser Shakour , Zohar Amitay

We introduce a novel control method for robust quantum information processing suited for quantum integrated photonics. We utilize off-resonant detunings as control parameters to derive a new family of composite pulses for high-fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Elica Kyoseva , Hadar Greener , Haim Suchowski

Minimizing the time required for quantum state preparation is crucial to mitigate decoherence and enable practical quantum algorithms on near-term hardware. In this work, we introduce a technique for quantum state preparation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 K. De La Ossa Doria , T. Merlo Vergara , D. Goyeneche

Recent technological advances have allowed the fabrication of large arrays of coupled qubits serving as prototypes of quantum processors. However, the optimal control of such systems is notoriously hard, which limits the potential of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Andrei A. Stepanenko , Kseniia S. Chernova , Maxim A. Gorlach

We present a new class of control pulses designed to transfer co-located ensembles without relying on frequency selectivity, thereby allowing much faster state-transitions. A geometric approach allows us to construct sequences which are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 K. L. Wood , W. A. Terrano

Fast tuning of the transition frequency of superconducting qubits using magnetic flux is essential, for example, for realizing high-fidelity two-qubit gates with low leakage or for reducing errors in dispersive qubit readout. To apply…

One major objective of controlling classical chaotic dynamical systems is exploiting the system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in order to arrive at a predetermined target state. In a recent letter [Phys.~Rev.~Lett. 130, 020201…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Steven Tomsovic , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

In this work, we propose a comprehensive design for narrowband and passband composite pulse sequences by involving the dynamics of all states in the three-state system. The design is quite universal as all pulse parameters can be freely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Cheng Zhang , Li-Tuo Shen , Jie Song , Yan Xia , Zhi-Cheng Shi

Qubit reset is crucial in quantum technology and is typically achieved by coupling the qubit to a dissipative environment. However, the achievable speed and fidelity are limited by qubit-environment entanglement. We use exact tensor-network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Eoin O'Neill , Paul Eastham

A scheme for controlling the entanglement of a two-qubit system by a local magnetic pulse is proposed. We show that the entanglement of the two-qubit system can be increased by sacrificing the coherence in ancillary degree of freedom, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shi-Jian Gu , Hai-Qing Lin

This work studies pulse based variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), which are designed to determine the ground state of a quantum mechanical system by combining classical and quantum hardware. In contrast to more standard gate based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Robert de Keijzer , Oliver Tse , Servaas Kokkelmans