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We present a numerically-optimized multipulse framework for the quantum control of a single-electron charge qubit. Our framework defines a set of pulse sequences, necessary for the manipulation of the ideal qubit basis, that avoids errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Aleksander Lasek , Hugo V. Lepage , Kexin Zhang , Thierry Ferrus , Crispin H. W. Barnes

Most quantum processors requires pulse sequences for controlling quantum states. Here, we present an alternative algorithm for computing an optimal pulse sequence in order to perform a specific task, being an implementation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 John P. S. Peterson , Roberto S. Sarthour , Raymond Laflamme

Low-frequency $1/f^\alpha$ charge noise significantly hinders the performance of voltage-controlled spin qubits in quantum dots. Here, we utilize fractional calculus to design voltage control pulses yielding the highest average fidelities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Bohdan Khromets , Jonathan Baugh

In this paper, we present a unified computational method based on pseudospectral approximations for the design of optimal pulse sequences in open quantum systems. The proposed method transforms the problem of optimal pulse design, which is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Jr-Shin Li , Justin Ruths , Dionisis Stefanatos

Reaching high speed, high fidelity qubit operations requires precise control over the shape of the underlying pulses. For weakly anharmonic systems, such as superconducting transmon qubits, short gates lead to leakage to states outside of…

We propose a selective dynamical decoupling scheme on a chain of permanently coupled qubits with XX type interactions, which is capable of dynamically suppressing any coupling in the chain by applying sequences of local pulses to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Holger Frydrych , Michael Marthaler , Gernot Alber

High-fidelity gate operations are essential to the realization of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In addition, the physical resources required to implement gates must scale efficiently with system size. A longstanding goal of the…

Quantum optimal control for gate optimization aims to provide accurate, robust, and fast pulse sequences to achieve gate fidelities on quantum systems below the error correction threshold. Many methods have been developed and successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Dirk Heimann , Felix Wiebe , Tahereh Abad , Elie Mounzer , Tangyou Huang , Frank Kirchner , Shivesh Kumar

In a Josephson phase qubit the coherent manipulations of the computational states are achieved by modulating an applied ac current, typically in the microwave range. In this work we show that it is possible to find optimal modulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Shabnam Safaei , Simone Montangero , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

Applying optimal control algorithms on realistic quantum systems confronts two key challenges: to efficiently adopt physical constraints in the optimization and to minimize the variables for the convenience of experimental tune-ups. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yao Song , Junning Li , Yong-Ju Hai , Qihao Guo , Xiu-Hao Deng

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

Achieving fast and high-fidelity qubit operations is crucial for unlocking the potential of quantum computers. In particular, reaching low gate errors in two-qubit gates has been a long-standing challenge in the field of superconducting…

The single flux quantum (SFQ) digital superconducting logic family has been proposed for the scalable control of next-generation superconducting qubit arrays. In the initial implementation, SFQ-based gate fidelity was limited by…

We present an efficient approach to optimising pulse sequences for implementing fast entangling two-qubit gates on trapped ion quantum information processors. We employ a two-phase procedure for optimising gate fidelity, which we…

High-fidelity quantum gates are crucial for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing; however, decoherence significantly reduces gate fidelities during long operation times. Although optimal control techniques can theoretically minimize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Niril George , Joseph L. Allen , Robert Kosut , Eran Ginossar

We employ quantum optimal control theory to realize quantum gates for two protected superconducting circuits: the heavy-fluxonium qubit and the 0-$\pi$ qubit. Utilizing automatic differentiation facilitates the simultaneous inclusion of…

We employ pulse shaping to abate single-qubit gate errors arising from the weak anharmonicity of transmon superconducting qubits. By applying shaped pulses to both quadratures of rotation, a phase error induced by the presence of higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 J. M. Chow , L. DiCarlo , J. M. Gambetta , F. Motzoi , L. Frunzio , S. M. Girvin , R. J. Schoelkopf

Two-qubit gates in trapped-ion quantum computers are generated by applying spin-dependent forces that temporarily entangle the internal state of the ion with its motion. Laser pulses are carefully designed to generate a maximally entangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Mingyu Kang , Qiyao Liang , Bichen Zhang , Shilin Huang , Ye Wang , Chao Fang , Jungsang Kim , Kenneth R. Brown

We present a continuous-time, neural-network-based approach to optimal control in quantum systems, with a focus on pulse engineering for quantum gates. Leveraging the framework of neural ordinary differential equations, we construct control…

Qudit gates for high-dimensional quantum computing can be synthesized with high precision using numerical quantum optimal control techniques. Large circuits are broken down into modules and the tailored pulses for each module can be used as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 A. Barış Özgüler , Joshua A. Job