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Adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) started as an approach to solving optimization problems, and has evolved into an important universal alternative to the standard circuit model of quantum computing, with deep connections to both classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

The system undergoes adiabatic evolution when its population in the instantaneous eigenbasis of its time-dependent Hamiltonian changes only negligibly. Realization of such dynamics requires slow-enough changes of the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bogdan Damski

We consider the optimal driving of the ground state of a many-body quantum system across a quantum phase transition in finite time. In this context, excitations caused by the breakdown of adiabaticity can be minimized by adjusting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 András Grabarits , Federico Balducci , Barry C. Sanders , Adolfo del Campo

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) provide control protocols to guide the dynamics of a quantum system through an adiabatic reference trajectory in an arbitrary prescheduled time. Designing STA proves challenging in complex quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 C. W. Duncan , A. del Campo

Adiabatic state engineering is a powerful technique in quantum information and quantum control. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. In this scenario, shortcuts to adiabaticity, such as provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

A shortcut-to-adiabaticity is compared with a numerically optimized protocol for implementing a high-fidelity quantum gate on Rydberg atoms. The counterdiabatic method offers an analytical framework for accelerating high-fidelity gates by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Luis S. Yagüe Bosch , Sandro Wimberger

Open quantum systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian exhibit rich dynamics due to the topology of their complex energy spectrum. By encircling an exceptional point degeneracy, this topology allows for topological state transport,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Serra Erdamar , Maryam Abbasi , Weijian Chen , Niklas Hörnedal , Aurélia Chenu , Kater W. Murch

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

Shortcuts to adiabaticity let a system reach the results of a slow adiabatic process in a shorter time. We propose to quantify the "energy cost" of the shortcut by the energy consumption of the system enlarged by including the control…

We investigate the phase transitions from chaotic to nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder, which can be realized with a Rydberg atom array setting. As the disorder strength increases, the emergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Yijia Zhou , Wei Xia , Lin Li , Weibin Li

Quantum simulation of complex many-body systems beyond classical computational capabilities provides a promising route toward understanding novel quantum phases and their transitions. In particular, analog quantum simulators with global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Shuo Zhang , Yuzhi Tong , Pengfei Zhang , Zeyu Liu

We introduce a quantum algorithm integrating counterdiabatic (CD) protocols with quantum Lyapunov control (QLC) to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. This approach offers versatility, allowing implementation as either a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Pranav Chandarana , Koushik Paul , Kasturi Ranjan Swain , Xi Chen , Adolfo del Campo

Adiabatic process has found many important applications in modern physics, the distinct merit of which is that it does not need accurate control over the timing of the process. However, it is a slow process, which limits the application in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Xiao Zhou , Bao-Jie Liu , L. -B. Shao , Xin-Ding Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Adiabatic protocols are employed across a variety of quantum technologies, from implementing state preparation and individual operations that are building blocks of larger devices, to higher-level protocols in quantum annealing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Ieva Čepaitė

Using shortcuts to adiabaticity, we solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation that is reduced to a classical nonlinear integrable equation. For a given time-dependent Hamiltonian, the counterdiabatic term is introduced to prevent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Manaka Okuyama , Kazutaka Takahashi

The adiabatic approximation exhibits wide applicability in quantum mechanics, providing a simple approach for nontransitional dynamics in quantum systems governed by slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonians. However, the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

Transitionless quantum driving achieves adiabatic evolution in a hurry, using a counter-diabatic Hamiltonian to stifle non-adiabatic transitions. Here this strategy is cast in terms of a generator of adiabatic transport, leading to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Jarzynski

A shortcut to adiabaticity (STA) is concerned with the fast and robust manipulation of the dynamics of a quantum system that reproduces the effect of an adiabatic process. A recently proposed method enables the generation of shortcuts from…

Time-rescaling (TR) has been recently proposed as a method to engineer fast processes, also known as shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA), which enables the coherent control of quantum systems beyond the adiabatic regime [B. L. Bernardo, Phys.…

Pedagogical introduction to counterdiabatic formalism of shortcuts to adiabaticity is given so that the readers are accessible to some of more specialized articles in the rest of this theme issue without a much barrier. A guide to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Mikio Nakahara