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Recently, the technique of counterdiabatic driving, which provides an effective strategy for accelerating adiabatic quantum evolution, has been widely applied in the preparation of many-body quantum states. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fengzhe Tang , Gangcheng Wang

The evolution of a system induced by counter-diabatic driving mimics the adiabatic dynamics without the requirement of slow driving. Engineering it involves diagonalizing the instantaneous Hamiltonian of the system and results in the need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Adolfo del Campo

We investigate the performance of a quantum thermal machine operating in finite time based on shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques. We compute efficiency and power for a quantum harmonic Otto engine by taking the energetic cost of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

We review a scheme for the systematic design of quantum control protocols based on shortcuts to adiabaticity in few-level quantum systems. The adiabatic dynamics is accelerated by introducing high-frequency modulations in the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Francesco Petiziol , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

We study a quantum Otto cycle that uses a 2-qubit working substance whose Hamiltonian does not commute with itself at different times during unitary strokes. We investigate how the cycle responds to the loss of quantum adiabaticity when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Cleverson Cherubim , Thiago R. de Oliveira , Daniel Jonathan

Suppression of diabatic transitions in quantum adiabatic evolution stands as a significant challenge for ground state preparations. Counterdiabatic driving has been proposed to compensate for diabatic losses and achieve shortcut to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Changhao Li , Jiayu Shen , Ruslan Shaydulin , Marco Pistoia

In noisy quantum systems, achieving high-fidelity state preparation using the adiabatic approach faces a dilemma: either extending the evolution time to reduce diabatic transitions or shortening it to mitigate decoherence effects. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Kang Cai , Prabin Parajuli , Anuvetha Govindarajan , Lin Tian

Controlling the dynamics of quantum many-body systems is crucial for developing quantum technologies. This work demonstrates that counter-diabatic (CD) driving provides a powerful tool for steering collective spin systems along entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Nakshatra Gangopadhay , Sayan Choudhury

The system undergoes adiabatic evolution when its population in the instantaneous eigenbasis of its time-dependent Hamiltonian changes only negligibly. Realization of such dynamics requires slow-enough changes of the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bogdan Damski

Adiabatic protocols are employed across a variety of quantum technologies, from implementing state preparation and individual operations that are building blocks of larger devices, to higher-level protocols in quantum annealing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Ieva Čepaitė , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Andrew J. Daley , Callum W. Duncan

Variational counterdiabatic (CD) driving is a disciplined and widely used method to robustly control quantum many-body systems by mimicking adiabatic processes with high fidelity and reduced duration. Central to this technique is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Naruo Ohga , Takuya Hatomura

The techniques of shortcuts to adiabaticity have been proposed to accelerate the "slow" adiabatic processes in various quantum systems with the applications in quantum information processing. In this paper, we study the counter-diabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Counterdiabatic (CD) driving is a powerful technique for accelerating adiabatic quantum computing. However, it becomes self-limiting in complex optimizations like the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model: long evolution times $T$ needed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Fei Li , Xiao-Wei Li

We introduce a quantum algorithm integrating counterdiabatic (CD) protocols with quantum Lyapunov control (QLC) to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. This approach offers versatility, allowing implementation as either a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Pranav Chandarana , Koushik Paul , Kasturi Ranjan Swain , Xi Chen , Adolfo del Campo

The quantum adiabatic method, which maintains populations in their instantaneous eigenstates throughout the state evolution, is an established and often a preferred choice for state preparation and manipulation. Though it minimizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Abhinav Suresh , Vishal Varma , Priya Batra , T S Mahesh

Counter-diabatic driving protocols were proposed as a means to do fast changes in the Hamiltonian without exciting transitions. Such driving in principle allows one to realize arbitrarily fast annealing protocols or implement fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

We investigate the efficiency of approximate counterdiabatic driving (CD) in accelerating adiabatic passage through exponentially small gaps. First, we analyze a minimal spin-glass bottleneck model that is analytically tractable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 András Grabarits , Federico Balducci , Adolfo del Campo

We use fast periodic control to realize finite-time Otto cycles exhibiting quantum advantage. Such periodic modulation of the working medium - bath interaction Hamiltonian during the thermalization strokes can give rise to non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Arpan Das , Victor Mukherjee

Counterdiabatic driving realizes parameter displacement of an energy eigenstate of a given parametrized Hamiltonian using the adiabatic gauge potential. In this paper, we propose a universal method of digitized counterdiabatic driving,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Takuya Hatomura

Jaynes-Cummings (JC) lattices can be constructed by connecting quantum two-level systems with cavities and have been widely studied for polariton many-body states and multipartite entanglement. Although adiabatic evolution has been studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Govindarajan , L. Tian