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The Gradient Ascent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE) is a celebrated control algorithm with excellent converging rates, owing to a piece-wise-constant ansatz for the control function that allows for cheap objective gradients. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Martin Larocca , Diego Wisniacki

Quantum control is valuable for various quantum technologies such as high-fidelity gates for universal quantum computing, adaptive quantum-enhanced metrology, and ultra-cold atom manipulation. Although supervised machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Pantita Palittapongarnpim , Peter Wittek , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Shakib Vedaie , Barry C. Sanders

The optimization of robust quantum control is often tailored to specific tasks and suffers from inefficiencies due to the complexity of cost functions. Our recent findings indicate a highly effective methodology for the engineering of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Huiqi Xue , Xiu-Hao Deng

Quantum error correction codes are usually designed to correct errors regardless of their physical origins. In large-scale devices, this is an essential feature. In smaller-scale devices, however, the main error sources are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 David Layden , Louisa Ruixue Huang , Paola Cappellaro

Quantum optimal control methods, such as gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE), are used for precise manipulation of quantum states. Many of those methods were pioneered in magnetic resonance spectroscopy where instrumental distortions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Uluk Rasulov , Ilya Kuprov

We present an iterative optimal control method of quantum systems, aimed at an implementation of a desired operation with optimal fidelity. The update step of the method is based on the linear response of the fidelity to the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Nicolas Heimann , Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

This paper studies a quantum risk-sensitive estimation problem and investigates robustness properties of the filter. This is a direct extension to the quantum case of analogous classical results. All investigations are based on a discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Naoki Yamamoto , Luc Bouten

Designing multi-qubit quantum logic gates with experimental constraints is an important problem in quantum computing. Here, we develop a new quantum optimal control algorithm for finding unitary transformations with constraints on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Dylan Lewis , Roeland Wiersema , Sougato Bose

Robust control design for quantum systems has been recognized as a key task in quantum information technology, molecular chemistry and atomic physics. In this paper, an improved differential evolution algorithm, referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Daoyi Dong , Xi Xing , Hailan Ma , Chunlin Chen , Zhixin Liu , Herschel Rabitz

Planning under model uncertainty is a fundamental problem across many applications of decision making and learning. In this paper, we propose the Robust Adaptive Monte Carlo Planning (RAMCP) algorithm, which allows computation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Apoorva Sharma , James Harrison , Matthew Tsao , Marco Pavone

Despite significant progress in theoretical and laboratory quantum control, engineering quantum systems remains principally challenging due to manifestation of noise and uncertainties associated with the field and Hamiltonian parameters. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Andrew Koswara , Vaibhav Bhutoria , Raj Chakrabarti

Properly designed control has been shown to be particularly advantageous for improving AQC accuracy and time complexity scaling. Here, an \emph{in situ} quantum control optimization protocol is developed to indirectly optimize state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gregory Quiroz

Precision control of quantum systems is the driving force for both quantum technology and the probing of physics at the quantum and nano-scale. We propose an implementation independent method for in situ quantum control that leverages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Christopher Ferrie , Osama Moussa

The ability to control quantum systems is necessary for many applications of quantum technologies ranging from gate generation in quantum computation to NMR and laser control of chemical reactions. In many practical situations, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Alexander Pechen

The Robust Phase Estimation (RPE) protocol was designed to be an efficient and robust way to calibrate quantum operations. The robustness of RPE refers to its ability to estimate a single parameter, usually gate amplitude, even when other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Adam M. Meier , Karl A. Burkhardt , Brian J. McMahon , Creston D. Herold

Quantum hypothesis testing plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies, making decisions or drawing conclusions about quantum systems based on observed data. Recently, quantum control techniques have been successfully applied to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Han Xu , Benran Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

Pulses to steer the time evolution of quantum systems can be designed with optimal control theory. In most cases it is the coherent processes that can be controlled and one optimizes the time evolution towards a target unitary process,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Daniel J. Egger , Frank K. Wilhelm

Optimization theory has been widely studied in academia and finds a large variety of applications in industry. The different optimization models in their discrete and/or continuous settings have catered to a rich source of research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Debbie Lim , Joao F. Doriguello , Patrick Rebentrost

Risk-sensitive planning aims to identify policies maximizing some tail-focused metrics in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Such an optimization task can be very costly for the most widely used and interpretable metrics such as threshold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Alexandre Marthe , Samuel Bounan , Aurélien Garivier , Claire Vernade

Robust performance of control schemes for open quantum systems is investigated under classical uncertainties in the generators of the dynamics and nonclassical uncertainties due to decoherence and initial state preparation errors. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Sophie G. Schirmer , Frank C. Langbein , Carrie A. Weidner , Edmond Jonckheere