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Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement. Using a quantum noise model to describe the stochastic evolution of the open quantum system and working in parallel with classical indeterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Edwards , V. P. Belavkin

A central challenge in quantum computing is to identify more computational problems for which utilization of quantum resources can offer significant speedup. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical scheme to tackle the quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jun Li , Xiaodong Yang , Xinhua Peng , Chang-Pu Sun

Inhomogeneity, in its many forms, appears frequently in practical physical systems. Readily apparent in quantum systems, inhomogeneity is caused by hardware imperfections, measurement inaccuracies, and environmental variations, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Justin Ruths , Jr-Shin Li

Quantum control aims to manipulate quantum systems toward specific quantum states or desired operations. Designing highly accurate and effective control steps is vitally important to various quantum applications, including energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

In this paper, we present efficient quantum algorithms that are exponentially faster than classical algorithms for solving the quantum optimal control problem. This problem involves finding the control variable that maximizes a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

We show that if an efficient classical representation of the dynamics exists, optimal control problems on many-body quantum systems can be solved efficiently with finite precision. We show that the size of the space of parameters necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 S. Lloyd , S. Montangero

We describe algorithms, and experimental strategies, for the Pareto optimal control problem of simultaneously driving an arbitrary number of quantum observable expectation values to their respective extrema. Conventional quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raj Chakrabarti , Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz

Quantum optimal control is a technique for controlling the evolution of a quantum system and has been applied to a wide range of problems in quantum physics. We study a binary quantum control optimization problem, where control decisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

Starting with the basic control system model often employed in NMR pulse design, we derive more realistic control system models taking into account effects such as off-resonant excitation for systems with fixed inter-qubit coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 Sonia Schirmer

Conventional approaches for controlling open quantum systems use coherent control which affects the system's evolution through the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics. Such control, although being extremely efficient for a large variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alexander Pechen , Herschel Rabitz

We develop a methodology for performing approximate optimal control simulations for quantum systems with multiple interacting degrees of freedom. The quantum dynamics are modeled using the first-order Magnus approximation in the interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Andrew Ma , Alicia B. Magann , Tak-San Ho , Herschel Rabitz

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

In this series of lectures, we would like to introduce the audience to quantum optimal control. The first lecture will cover basic ideas and principles of optimal control with the goal of demystifying its jargon. The second lecture will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Frank K. Wilhelm , Susanna Kirchhoff , Shai Machnes , Nicolas Wittler , Dominique Sugny

In this paper, we demonstrate an approach to quantum robust control based on the tools of geometric optimal control. The central objects of interest are the sensitivity functions defined as the coefficients in the Taylor expansion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

Coherent carrier control in quantum nanostructures is studied within the framework of Optimal Control. We develop a general solution scheme for the optimization of an external control (e.g., lasers pulses), which allows to channel the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alfio Borzi , Georg Stadler , Ulrich Hohenester

Quantum control can be employed in quantum metrology to improve the precision limit for the estimation of unknown parameters. The optimal control, however, typically depends on the actual values of the parameters and thus needs to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Han Xu , Lingna Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Constantin Brif , Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

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

Quantum optimal control plays a crucial role in the development of quantum technologies, particularly in the design and implementation of fast and accurate gates for quantum computing. Here, we present a method to synthesize gates using the…