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We present a general framework for finding the time-optimal evolution and the optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum system with a given set of initial and final states. Our formulation is based on the variational principle and is analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Carlini , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike , Yosuke Okudaira

We present a general theoretical framework for finding the time-optimal unitary evolution of the quantum systems when the Hamiltonian is subject to arbitrary constraints. Quantum brachistochrone (QB) is such a framework based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Hiroaki Wakamura , Tatsuhiko Koike

Efficient control of qubits plays a key role in quantum information processing. In the current work, an alternative set of differential equations are derived for an optimal quantum control of single or multiple qubits with or without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Ding Wang , Haowei Shi , Yueheng Lan

The quantum brachistochrone problem addresses the fundamental challenge of achieving the quantum speed limit in applications aiming to realize a given unitary operation in a quantum system. Specifically, it looks into optimization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 S. Malikis , V. Cheianov

We present a general formalism based on the variational principle for finding the time-optimal quantum evolution of mixed states governed by a master equation, when the Hamiltonian and the Lindblad operators are subject to certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 A. Carlini , A. Hosoya , T. Koike , Y. Okudaira

We study quantum brachistochrone problem for the spin-1 system in a magnetic field of a constant absolute value. Such system gives us a possibility to examine in detail the statement of papers [A. Carlini {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Frydryszak , V. M. Tkachuk

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

This paper covers some new results from the theory of time optimal quantum control, with particular application to relativistic particles including Majorana fermions. We give a brief review of the state of affairs regarding experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 P. G. Morrison

Most methods of optimal control cannot obtain accurate time-optimal protocols. The quantum brachistochrone equation is an exception, and has the potential to provide accurate time-optimal protocols for essentially any quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Xiaoting Wang , Michele Allegra , Kurt Jacobs , Seth Lloyd , Cosmo Lupo , Masoud Mohseni

A new formalism for the optimal control of quantum mechanical physical observables is presented. This approach is based on an analogous classical control technique reported previously[J. Botina, H. Rabitz and N. Rahman, J. chem. Phys. Vol.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jair Botina , Herschel Rabitz , Naseem Rahman

An analysis of the motion of a relativistic electron under a linear constraint in four dimensions is presented. Interesting results are given that show that the state of the electron is well defined under the formalism of time optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Peter G. Morrison

In quantum control, quantum speed limits provide fundamental lower bounds on the time that is needed to implement certain unitary transformations. Using Lie algebraic methods, we link these speed limits to symmetries of the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Marco Wiedmann , Daniel Burgarth

Recently, Bender et al. have considered the quantum brachistochrone problem for the non-Hermitian $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum system and have shown that the optimal time evolution required to transform a given initial state $|\psi_i\rangle$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-07 Alexander I. Nesterov

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 dissertation presents and prove the viability of a non-standard method for controlling the state of a quantum system by modifying its boundary conditions instead of relying on the action of external fields. The standard approach to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Aitor Balmaseda

We present an approach to compute time-optimal control of a quantum system which combines quantum brachistochrone and Lax pair techniques and enables efficient investigation of large-scale quantum systems. We illustrate our method by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Andrei A. Stepanenko , Kseniia S. Chernova , Maxim A. Gorlach

We consider an optimal control problem constrained by a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) with Robin boundary conditions. We use a well-posed space-time variational formulation in Lebesgue--Bochner spaces with minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Nina Beranek , M. Alexander Reinhold , Karsten Urban

We present a novel framework for optimal control in both classical and quantum systems. Our approach leverages the Dirac--Bergmann algorithm: a systematic method for formulating and solving constrained dynamical systems. In contrast to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Davit Aghamalyan , Aleek Maity , Varun Narasimhachar , V V Sreedhar

Recently, the quantum brachistochrone problem is discussed in the literature by using non-Hermitian Hamilton operators of different type. Here, it is demonstrated that the passage time is tunable in realistic open quantum systems due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ingrid Rotter

According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle between time and energy fluctuation, a concept of the quantum speed limit (QSL) has been established to determine the minimum evolutionary time between quantum states. Considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fu-Quan Dou , Min-Peng Han , Chuan-Cun Shu
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