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In this work, we investigate how and to which extent a quantum system can be driven along a prescribed path in Hilbert space by a suitably shaped laser pulse. To calculate the optimal, i.e., the variationally best pulse, a properly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Serban , J. Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

We consider a two-level system with a fixed energy spacing (detuning) between the two levels and a single transverse control field which can take values between zero and a maximum amplitude. Using Pontryagin's maximum principle, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Vasileios Evangelakos , Emmanuel Paspalakis , Dionisis Stefanatos

In this paper we solve two equivalent time optimal control problems. On one hand, we design the control field to implement in minimum time the SWAP (or equivalent) operator on a two-level system, assuming that it interacts with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Raffaele Romano , Domenico D'Alessandro

This article contributes to a framework for a computational indirect method based on the Pontryagin maximum principle to efficiently solve a class of state constrained time-optimal control problems in the presence of a time-dependent flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

Through the Pontryagin maximum principle, we solve a minimal-time problem for a linear control system on a cylinder, considered as a homogeneous space of the solvable Lie group of dimension two. The main result explicitly shows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Victor Ayala , Adriano Da Silva , Maria Torreblanca

Quantum entanglement is a key resource for quantum technologies, yet its efficient and high-fidelity generation remains a challenge due to the complexity of quantum dynamics. This paper presents a quantum optimal control framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar , Rafal Wisniewski

Reliable high-fidelity quantum state transformation has always been considered as an inseparable part of quantum information processing. In this regard, Pontryagin maximum principle has proved to play an important role to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

In this study, we address a control-constrained optimal control problem pertaining to the transformation of quantum states. Our objective is to navigate a quantum system from an initial state to a desired target state while adhering to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

Optimal control theory, also known as Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, is applied to the quantum parameter estimation in the presence of decoherence. An efficient procedure is devised to compute the gradient of quantum Fisher information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Chungwei Lin , Yanting Ma , Dries Sels

Recent technological advances have allowed the fabrication of large arrays of coupled qubits serving as prototypes of quantum processors. However, the optimal control of such systems is notoriously hard, which limits the potential of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Andrei A. Stepanenko , Kseniia S. Chernova , Maxim A. Gorlach

The finite-time control problem of quantum systems is investigated in this paper. We first define finite-time stability and present a finite-time Lyapunov stability criterion for finite-dimensional quantum systems in coherence vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Sen Kuang , Xiaoke Guan , Daoyi Dong

We study time-minimum optimal control for a class of quantum two-dimensional dissipative systems whose dynamics are governed by the Lindblad equation and where control inputs acts only in the Hamiltonian. The dynamics of the control system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 William Clark , Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Patrick Rooney

We propose an optimal control strategy to generate maximally entangled states in bipartite quantum systems. Leveraging the Pontryagin Principle, we derive time-dependent control fields that maximize the entanglement measure, specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar , Rafal Wisniewski

Optimal control theory provides recipes to achieve quantum operations with high fidelity and speed, as required in quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and computation. While technical advances have achieved the ultrastrong driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 M. Hirose , P. Cappellaro

Control of quantum systems is a central element of high-precision experiments and the development of quantum technological applications. Control pulses that are typically temporally or spatially modulated are often designed based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Frederic Sauvage , Florian Mintert

In this study, we theoretically analyzed a control protocol based on ``time-dependent resonance" in nearly adiabatic two-level quantum systems, demonstrating that it exhibits properties equivalent to adiabatic control. This protocol is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Takayuki Suzuki

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 propose an analysis of the time-optimal control of a dissipative two-level quantum system whose dynamics is governed by the Lindblad equation. This simple system allows one to use tools of geometric control theory and to construct its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 D. Sugny , C. Kontz , H. R. Jauslin

In this paper, we derive a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. Our framework is actually much more general, and we treat optimal control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

A formalism based on Pontryagin's maximum principle is applied to determine the time-optimal protocol that drives a general initial state to a target state by a Hamiltonian with limited control, i.e., there is a single control field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yebin Wang