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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

Quantum Annealing (QA) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) are two special cases of the following control problem: apply a combination of two Hamiltonians to minimize the energy of a quantum state. Which is more…

Effective epidemic control is crucial for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, particularly when pharmaceutical interventions such as vaccines or treatments are limited. Non-pharmaceutical strategies, including mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-03 Deborah Volpe , Giacomo Orlandi , Mattia Boggio , Carlo Novara , Lorenzo Zino , Giovanna Turvani

We address a wide spectrum of quantum control strategies, including various open-loop protocols and advanced adaptive methods. These methodologies apply to few-qubit scenarios and naturally scale to larger N-qubit systems. We benchmark them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Atta ur Rahman , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Cong-feng Qiao

We introduce a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for continuous optimization. The algorithm is based on the dynamics of a quantum system moving in an energy potential which encodes the objective function. By approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillaume Verdon , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Kamil Brádler , Nathan Killoran

Optimal control theory is a versatile tool that presents a route to significantly improving figures of merit for quantum information tasks. We combine it here with the geometric theory for local equivalence classes of two-qubit operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 M. M. Müller , D. M. Reich , M. Murphy , H. Yuan , J. Vala , K. B. Whaley , T. Calarco , C. P. Koch

Optimal control theory provides a framework for numerical discovery of device controls that implement quantum logic gates, but common objective functions used for optimization often assign arbitrarily high costs to otherwise useful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Paul Kairys , Travis S. Humble

Quantum computing is an advancing area of research in which computer hardware and algorithms are developed to take advantage of quantum mechanical phenomena. In recent studies, quantum algorithms have shown promise in solving linear systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Katherine Asztalos , René Steijl , Romit Maulik

Resolving signals with closely spaced frequencies is central to applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. Recent results have shown that quantum sensing protocols can exhibit superresolution, the ability to discriminate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Joseph T. Iosue , Paraj Titum , Taohan Lin , Clare Lau , Leigh M. Norris

The Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem is a structured system identification problem that aims to identify the underlying objective function based on observed optimal trajectories. This provides a data-driven way to model experts'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

The wave-function Monte-Carlo method, also referred to as the use of "quantum-jump trajectories", allows efficient simulation of open systems by independently tracking the evolution of many pure-state "trajectories". This method is ideally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Michael H. Goerz , Kurt Jacobs

Quantum information technologies demand highly accurate control over quantum systems. Achieving this requires control techniques that perform well despite the presence of decohering noise and other adverse effects. Here, we review a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Edwin Barnes , Fernando A. Calderon-Vargas , Wenzheng Dong , Bikun Li , Junkai Zeng , Fei Zhuang

Precise manipulation of quantum effects at the atomic and nanoscale has become an essential task in ongoing scientific and technological endeavours. Quantum control methods are thus routinely exploited for research in areas such as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Callum W. Duncan , Pablo M. Poggi , Marin Bukov , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner , Steve Campbell

Optimal control theory is a promising candidate for a drastic improvement of the performance of quantum information tasks. We explore its ultimate limit in paradigmatic cases, and demonstrate that it coincides with the maximum speed limit…

Optimal Control Theory is a powerful mathematical tool, which has known a rapid development since the 1950s, mainly for engineering applications. More recently, it has become a widely used method to improve process performance in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 U. Boscain , M. Sigalotti , D. Sugny

A black-box optimization algorithm such as Bayesian optimization finds extremum of an unknown function by alternating inference of the underlying function and optimization of an acquisition function. In a high-dimensional space, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Syun Izawa , Koki Kitai , Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura , Koji Tsuda

Quantum optimization has emerged as a promising frontier of quantum computing, providing novel numerical approaches to mathematical optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alexey Bochkarev , Raoul Heese , Sven Jäger , Philine Schiewe , Anita Schöbel

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a promising technology for solving complex optimization problems that arise in various engineering fields. Therefore, it holds significant promise to transform the computational foundations of power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Nikolaos G. Paterakis , Petros Karamanakos , Corey O'Meara , Georgios Papafotiou

Major players in the global aerospace industry are shifting their focus toward achieving net carbon-neutral operations by 2050. A considerable portion of the overall carbon emission reduction is expected to come from new aircraft…

We discuss the opportunities for parallelization in the recently proposed QPALM-OCP algorithm, a solver tailored to quadratic programs arising in optimal control. A significant part of the computational work can be carried out independently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Pieter Pas , Kristoffer Fink Løwenstein , Daniele Bernardini , Panagiotis Patrinos