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Braiding of Majorana zero modes provides a promising platform for quantum information processing, which is topologically protected against errors. Strictly speaking, however, the scheme relies on infinite braiding times as it utilizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Torsten Karzig , Armin Rahmani , Felix von Oppen , Gil Refael

Quantum annealing is a continuous-time heuristic quantum algorithm for solving or approximately solving classical optimization problems. The algorithm uses a schedule to interpolate between a driver Hamiltonian with an easy-to-prepare…

Quantum control of systems plays important roles in modern science and technology. The ultimate goal of quantum control is to achieve high fidelity universal control in the time-optimal way. Although high fidelity universal control has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianpei Geng , Yang Wu , Xiaoting Wang , Kebiao Xu , Fazhan Shi , Yijin Xie , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Optimal control methods for implementing quantum modules with least amount of relaxative loss are devised to give best approximations to unitary gates under relaxation. The potential gain by optimal control using relaxation parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 T. Schulte-Herbrueggen , A. Spoerl , N. Khaneja , S. J. Glaser

At present, several models for quantum computation have been proposed. Adiabatic quantum computation scheme particularly offers this possibility and is based on a slow enough time evolution of the system, where no transitions take place. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. J. Salas Peralta

The Ground-state criticality of many-body systems is a resource for quantum-enhanced sensing, namely the Heisenberg precision limit, provided that one has access to the whole system. We show that for partial accessibility, the sensing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Utkarsh Mishra , Abolfazl Bayat

We propose a feedback control mechanism for the squeezing of the phononic mode of a mechanical oscillator. We show how, under appropriate working conditions, a simple adiabatic approach is able to induce mechanical squeezing. We then go…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Marco G. Genoni , Matteo Bina , Stefano Olivares , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

We propose applying the adiabatic algorithm to prepare high-energy eigenstates of integrable models on a quantum computer. We first review the standard adiabatic algorithm to prepare ground states in each magnetization sector of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Maximilian Lutz , Lorenzo Piroli , Georgios Styliaris , J. Ignacio Cirac

Various constraints concerning control fields can be imposed in the realistic implementations of quantum control systems. One of the most important is the restriction on the frequency spectrum of acceptable control parameters. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

We show that adiabatic evolution of a low-dimensional lattice of quantum spins with a spectral gap can be simulated efficiently. In particular, we show that as long as the spectral gap \Delta E between the ground state and the first excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias J. Osborne

Simple, precise, and robust control is demanded for operating a large quantum information processor. However, existing routes to high-fidelity quantum control rely heavily on arbitrary waveform generators that are difficult to scale up.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi-Ming Chen , Herschel Rabitz , Re-Bing Wu

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

This article provides a review of recent developments in the formulation and execution of optimal control strategies for the dynamics of quantum systems. A brief introduction to the concept of optimal control, the dynamics of of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Robert Roloff , Markus Wenin , Walter Pötz

We propose a simple construction of shortcuts to adiabaticity tracking instantaneous stationary states in classical spin systems without knowing tracked stationary states. In our construction, control fields of counter-diabatic driving are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Takuya Hatomura , Takashi Mori

A large class of optimisation problems can be mapped to the Ising model where all details are encoded in the coupling of spins. The task of the original mathematical optimisation is then equivalent to finding the ground state of the…

Finding minimal time and establishing the structure of the corresponding optimal controls which can transfer a given initial state of a quantum system into a given target state is a key problem of quantum control. In this work, this problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 L. V. Lokutsievskiy , A. N. Pechen , M. I. Zelikin

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and data science. While existing methods such as Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Davide Cugini , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mario Motta , Dario Gerace

We present and discuss different protocols for preparing an arbitrary quantum state of a qubit using only a restricted set of measurements, with no unitary operations at all. We show that an arbitrary state can indeed be prepared, provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

We show how a digitized version of Quantum Annealing can be made optimal, realizing the best possible solution allowed by quantum mechanics in the shortest time, without any prior knowledge on the location and properties of the spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-28 Glen Bigan Mbeng , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro