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In this paper, we introduce a neural network to generate optimal control pulses for general single-qubit quantum logic gates, within a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) quantum computer. By utilizing a neural network, we can efficiently…

High-precision operation of quantum computing systems must be robust to uncertainties and noises in the quantum hardware. In this paper, we show that through a game played between the uncertainties (or noises) and the controls, adversarial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaozhen Ge , Haijin Ding , Herschel Rabitz , Rebing Wu

For paving the way to novel applications in quantum simulation, computation, and technology, increasingly large quantum systems have to be steered with high precision. It is a typical task amenable to numerical optimal control to turn the…

We present GRACE, a simulation-native agent for autonomous experimental design in high-energy and nuclear physics. Given multimodal input in the form of a natural-language prompt or a published experimental paper, the agent extracts a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 Justin Hill , Hong Joo Ryoo

Control design for robotic systems is complex and often requires solving an optimization to follow a trajectory accurately. Online optimization approaches like Model Predictive Control (MPC) have been shown to achieve great tracking…

Every quantum operation that takes a system from one state to another is known to have bounds on operation time, due to Heisenberg uncertainty principle. In open quantum systems (OQS), such bounds have been principally affected by system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Sarfraj Fency , Riddhi Chatterjee , Rangeet Bhattacharyya

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be quite resource-consuming since the total Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Quantum computation places very stringent demands on gate fidelities, and experimental implementations require both the controls and the resultant dynamics to conform to hardware-specific constraints. Superconducting qubits present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Shai Machnes , Elie Assémat , David J. Tannor , Frank K. Wilhelm

We use the numerical gradient ascent method from optimal control theory to extend efficient photon storage in Lambda-type media to previously inaccessible regimes and to provide simple intuitive explanations for our optimization techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 Alexey V. Gorshkov , Tommaso Calarco , Mikhail D. Lukin , Anders S. Sorensen

Derivative computation is a key component of optimization, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and nonlinear solvers. Automatic differentiation (AD) is a powerful technique for evaluating such derivatives, and in recent years,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Kim Liegeois , Brian Kelley , Eric Phipps , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Vassil Vassilev

A gradient ascent method for optimal quantum control synthesis is presented that employs a gradient derived with respect to the coefficients of a functional basis expansion of the control. Restricting the space of allowable controls to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Dennis Lucarelli

Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhan Ni , Jingsong Liang , Chenyu He , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Gradient based optimization methods are the established state-of-the-art paradigm to study strongly entangled quantum systems in two dimensions with Projected Entangled Pair States. However, the key ingredient, the gradient itself, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Anna Francuz , Norbert Schuch , Bram Vanhecke

Current AMR simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient parallelization and memory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-10 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Brandon Shroyer , Adam Frank , Chen Ding

A central challenge in quantum computing is to identify more computational problems for which utilization of quantum resources can offer significant speedup. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical scheme to tackle the quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jun Li , Xiaodong Yang , Xinhua Peng , Chang-Pu Sun

Quantum control can be employed in quantum metrology to improve the precision limit for the estimation of unknown parameters. The optimal control, however, typically depends on the actual values of the parameters and thus needs to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Han Xu , Lingna Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

Achieving high-fidelity control in the presence of strong non-Markovian noise is critical for the optimization of emergent solid-state quantum devices. We present a highly efficient optimization framework that combines automatic…

The development of efficient algorithms that generate robust quantum controls is crucial for the realization of quantum technologies. The commonly used gradient-based optimization algorithms are limited by their sensitivity to the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 M. Harshanth Ram , V. R. Krithika , Priya Batra , T. S. Mahesh

We present a robust pulse optimization method for adiabatic population transfer and adiabatic quantum computation. The approach relies on identifying control pulses that keep the evolving quantum system close to its instantaneous ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Daniel Turyansky , Yehonatan Zolti , Yuval Cohen , Adi Pick

For the study of reactions in High Energy Physics (HEP) automatic computation systems have been developed and are widely used nowadays. GRACE is one of such systems and it has achieved much success in analyzing experimental data. Since we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Yuasa , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , M. Jimbo , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , S. Kawabata , T. Kon , Y. Kurihara , M. Kuroda , N. Nakazawa , Y. Shimizu , H. Tanaka