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Control of quantum systems is a central element of high-precision experiments and the development of quantum technological applications. Control pulses that are typically temporally or spatially modulated are often designed based on…

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Rare events are essential for understanding the behavior of non-equilibrium and industrial systems. It is of ongoing interest to develop methods for effectively searching for rare events. With the advent of quantum computing and its…

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We explore the use of policy gradient methods in reinforcement learning for quantum control via energy landscape shaping of XX-Heisenberg spin chains in a model agnostic fashion. Their performance is compared to finding controllers using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 I. Khalid , C. A. Weidner , E. A. Jonckheere , S. G. Schirmer , F. C. Langbein

We present a classical control mechanism for Quantum devices using Reinforcement Learning. Our strategy is applied to the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) in order to optimize an objective function that encodes a solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Artur Garcia-Saez , Jordi Riu

By exploiting the exotic quantum states of a probe, it is possible to realize efficient sensors that are attractive for practical metrology applications and fundamental studies. Similar to other quantum technologies, quantum sensing is…

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We investigate the role of information in active feedback control of quantum many-body systems using reinforcement learning. Active feedback breaks detailed balance, enabling the engineering of steady states and dynamical phases of matter…

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Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

Quadratic programming is a workhorse of modern nonlinear optimization, control, and data science. Although regularized methods offer convergence guarantees under minimal assumptions on the problem data, they can exhibit the slow…

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Quantum Computing aims to streamline machine learning, making it more effective with fewer trainable parameters. This reduction of parameters can speed up the learning process and reduce the use of computational resources. However, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Michael Kölle , Timo Witter , Tobias Rohe , Gerhard Stenzel , Philipp Altmann , Thomas Gabor

Quantum physics holds the promise of enabling certain tasks with better performance than possible when only classical resources are employed. The quantum phenomena present in many experiments signify nonclassical behavior, but do not always…

Ensuring the stability of power systems is gaining more attraction today than ever before, due to the rapid growth of uncertainties in load and renewable energy penetration. Lately, wide area measurement system-based centralized controlling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Yousaf Hashmy , Zhe Yu , Di Shi , Yang Weng

Optical techniques for the quantum control of the dynamics of multiexciton states in a semiconductor quantum dot are explored in theory. Composite bichromatic phase-locked pulses are shown to reduce the time of elementary quantum operations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Piermarocchi , Pochung Chen , Y. S. Dale , L. J. Sham

Quantum systems can be exquisite sensors thanks to their sensitivity to external perturbations. This same characteristic also makes them fragile to external noise. Quantum control can tackle the challenge of protecting quantum sensors from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 F. Poggiali , P. Cappellaro , N. Fabbri

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

An optimal dynamical decoupling of a quantum system coupled to a noisy environment must take into account also the imperfections of the control pulses. We present a new formalism which describes, in a closed-form expression, the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ido Almog , Gil Loewenthal , Jonathan Coslovsky , Yoav Sagi , Nir Davidson

Deep reinforcement learning is becoming increasingly popular for robot control algorithms, with the aim for a robot to self-learn useful feature representations from unstructured sensory input leading to the optimal actuation policy. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Steven Bohez , Tim Verbelen , Elias De Coninck , Bert Vankeirsbilck , Pieter Simoens , Bart Dhoedt

Quantum entanglement, in the form of spin squeezing, is known to improve the sensitivity of atomic instruments to static or slowly-varying quantities. Sensing transient events presents a distinct challenge, requires different analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Julia Amoros-Binefa , Morgan W. Mitchell , Jan Kolodynski

Quantum physics enables parameter estimation with precisions beyond the capability of classical sensors. Quantum criticality is a key resource for this quantum-enhanced sensing, but experimental realization has been challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Lei Xiao , Saubhik Sarkar , Kunkun Wang , Abolfazl Bayat , Peng Xue

Precision metrology underpins scientific and technological advancements. Quantum metrology offers a pathway to surpass classical sensing limits by leveraging quantum states and measurement strategies. However, measuring multiple…

Quantum control requires high-precision and robust control pulses to ensure optimal system performance. However, control sequences generated with a system model may suffer from model bias, leading to low fidelity. While model-free…