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We propose an efficient strategy to find optimal control functions for state-to-state quantum control problems. Our procedure first chooses an input state trajectory, that can realize the desired transformation by adiabatic variation of the…

Rapid and efficient preparation, manipulation and transfer of quantum states through an array of quantum dots (QDs) is a demanding requisite task for quantum information processing and quantum computation in solid-state physics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Yue Ban , Xi Chen , Gloria Platero

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) were first developed in quantum dynamics to realize rapid transformations with suppressed residual excitations. Here we show how the same idea can be implemented in classical nonlinear dissipative Lagrangian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jincheng Shi , Yicheng Pan , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

The design of quantum control methods has been shown to greatly improve the performance of many evolving quantum technologies. To this end, the usage of adiabatic dynamics to drive quantum systems is seriously limited by the action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

Different techniques to speed up quantum adiabatic processes are currently being explored for applications in atomic, molecular and optical physics, such as transport, cooling and expansions, wavepacket splitting, or internal state control.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 S. Ibáñez , Xi Chen , J. G. Muga

A shortcut to adiabaticity is a driving protocol that reproduces in a short time the same final state that would result from an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. A powerful technique to engineer such shortcuts relies on the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Sebastian Deffner , Christopher Jarzynski , Adolfo del Campo

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) provide control protocols to guide the dynamics of a quantum system through an adiabatic reference trajectory in an arbitrary prescheduled time. Designing STA proves challenging in complex quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 C. W. Duncan , A. del Campo

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are relevant in the context of quantum systems, particularly regarding their control when they are subjected to time-dependent external conditions. In this paper, we investigate the completion of a…

We consider fast high-fidelity quantum control by using a shortcut to adiabaticity (STA) technique and optimal control theory (OCT). Three specific examples, including expansion of cold atoms from the harmonic trap, atomic transport by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Qi Zhang , Xi Chen , David Guéry-Odelin

We study the environment assisted local transitionless dynamics in closed spin systems driven through quantum critical points. In general shortcut to adaiabaticity (STA) in quantum critical systems requires highly non-local control…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-14 Victor Mukherjee , Simone Montangero , Rosario Fazio

Shortcuts to adiabaticity~(STA) enables fast and robust coherent control of quantum system, which has been well placed in quantum technologies. In particular, inverse engineering STA provides much more freedom for the optimization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Si-Qi Chen , He Lu

Robust quantum control is essential for the development of quantum computers, which rely on precise manipulation of qubits. One form of quantum control is stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which ordinarily is a state transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Khayla Black , Xi Chen , Tim Byrnes

Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bo Xing , Jesús G. Parejo , Sofía Martínez-Garaot , Paola Cappellaro , Mikel Palmero

Multi-squeezed states, also known as generalized squeezed states, are valuable quantum non-Gaussian resources, because they can feature non-classical properties such as large phase-space Wigner negativities. In this work, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Chuan Chen , Jian-Yu Lu , Xu-Yang Chen , Zhen-Yu Wang

A $\textit{shortcut to adiabaticity}$ is a recipe for generating adiabatic evolution at an arbitrary pace. Shortcuts have been developed for quantum, classical and (most recently) stochastic dynamics. A shortcut might involve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-30 Ayoti Patra , Christopher Jarzynski

The operation of near-term quantum technologies requires the development of feasible, implementable, and robust strategies of controlling complex many body systems. To this end, a variety of techniques, so-called "shortcuts to adiabaticty",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Artur Soriani , Eduardo Miranda , Sebastian Deffner , Marcus V. S. Bonança

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) is a widely used protocol to realize high-fidelity and robust quantum control in various quantum systems. However, further application of this protocol in superconducting qubits is limited by…

Adiabatic process has found many important applications in modern physics, the distinct merit of which is that it does not need accurate control over the timing of the process. However, it is a slow process, which limits the application in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Xiao Zhou , Bao-Jie Liu , L. -B. Shao , Xin-Ding Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue

The technique of shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) has attracted broad attention due to their possible applications in quantum information processing and quantum control. However, most studies published so far have been only focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hong Li , H. Z. Shen , S. L. Wu , X. X. Yi

In view of the compelling need for coherent atom transport as a prerequisite for a variety of emerging quantum technologies, we investigate such transport on the example of an adjustable family of two-dimensional optical lattices [L.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Sascha H. Hauck , Vladimir M. Stojanovic