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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

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

Quantum estimation involving multiple parameters remains an important problem of both theoretical and practical interest. In this work, we study the problem of simultaneous estimation of two parameters that are respectively associate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Yink Loong Len

Characterizing quantum dynamics is essential for quantifying arbitrary properties of a quantum process -- such as its ability to exhibit quantum-mechanical dynamics or generate entanglement. However, current methods require a number of…

Relevant metrological scenarios involve the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters. The fundamental ingredient to achieve quantum-enhanced performances is based on the use of appropriately tailored quantum probes. However, reaching…

In this paper, we study time-optimal control problems related to system of two coupled qubits where the time scales involved in performing unitary transformations on each qubit are significantly different. In particular, we address the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert Zeier , Haidong Yuan , Navin Khaneja

Recently proposed quantum-chaotic sensors achieve quantum enhancements in measurement precision by applying nonlinear control pulses to the dynamics of the quantum sensor while using classical initial states that are easy to prepare. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Jonas Schuff , Lukas J. Fiderer , Daniel Braun

This paper presents a joint optimisation framework for optimal estimation and stochastic optimal control with imperfect information. It provides a estimation and control scheme that can be decomposed into a classical optimal estimation step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Emilien Flayac , Karim Dahia , Bruno Hérissé , Frédéric Jean

Recent advancements in quantum hardware and classical computing simulations have significantly enhanced the accessibility of quantum system data, leading to an increased demand for precise descriptions and predictions of these systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Zheng An , Jiahui Wu , Zidong Lin , Xiaobo Yang , Keren Li , Bei Zeng

We propose and analyze a versatile and efficient multiparameter quantum sensing protocol, which simultaneously estimates many non-commuting and time-dependent signals that are coherently or incoherently coupled to sensing particles. Even in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Wenjie Gong , Bingtian Ye , Daniel Mark , Soonwon Choi

Quantum optimal control represents a powerful technique to enhance the performance of quantum experiments by engineering the controllable parameters of the Hamiltonian. However, the computational overhead for the necessary optimization of…

We propose the first near-optimal quantum algorithm for estimating in Euclidean norm the mean of a vector-valued random variable with finite mean and covariance. Our result aims at extending the theory of multivariate sub-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Arjan Cornelissen , Yassine Hamoudi , Sofiene Jerbi

We propose nearly-optimal control strategies for changing states of a quantum system. We argue that quantum control optimization can be studied analytically within some protocol families that depend on a small set of parameters for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen Sun , Avadh Saxena , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

A central feature of quantum mechanics is that a measurement is intrinsically probabilistic. As a result, continuously monitoring a quantum system will randomly perturb its natural unitary evolution. The ability to control a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 S. J. Weber , A. Chantasri , J. Dressel , A. N. Jordan , K. W. Murch , I. Siddiqi

We show that optimal control of the electron dynamics is able to prepare molecular ground states, within chemical accuracy, with evolution times approaching the bounds imposed by quantum mechanics. We propose a specific parameterization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Davide Castaldo , Marta Rosa , Stefano Corni

This paper proposes an efficient method for the simultaneous estimation of the state of a quantum system and the classical parameters that govern its evolution. This hybrid approach benefits from efficient numerical methods for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jason F Ralph , Simon Maskell , Kurt Jacobs

The simulation of quantum dynamics on a digital quantum computer with parameterized circuits has widespread applications in fundamental and applied physics and chemistry. In this context, using the hybrid quantum-classical algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tangyou Huang , Yongcheng Ding , Léonce Dupays , Yue Ban , Man-Hong Yung , Adolfo del Campo , Xi Chen

We propose an analysis of the time-optimal control of SU(2) quantum operations. By using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we show how to determine the optimal trajectory reaching a given target state. Explicit analytical solutions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Garon , S. J. Glaser , D. Sugny

In this paper, we study numerical approximations for optimal control of a class of stochastic partial differential equations with partial observations. The system state evolves in a Hilbert space, whereas observations are given in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Feng Bao , Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian