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A new class of cost functionals for optimal control of quantum systems which produces controls which are sparse in frequency and smooth in time is proposed. This is achieved by penalizing a suitable time-frequency representation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Gero Friesecke , Felix Henneke , Karl Kunisch

We present a systematic method for dealing with time dependent quantum dynamics, based on the quantum brachistochrone and matrix mechanics. We derive the explicit time dependence of the Hamiltonian operator for a number of constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Peter G. Morrison

We present a time-parallelization method that enables to accelerate the computation of quantum optimal control algorithms. We show that this approach is approximately fully efficient when based on a gradient method as optimization solver:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Mohamed-Kamel Riahi , Julien Salomon , S. J. Glaser , D Sugny

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Constantin Brif , Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally quantized, time evolution is governed by a well-known Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Christiane P. Koch , Mikhail Lemeshko , Dominique Sugny

We study the interplay between rotating wave approximation and optimal control. In particular, we show that for a wide class of optimal control problems one can choose the control field such that the Hamiltonian becomes time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Maximilian Keck , Matthias M. Müller , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

The study of real-time dynamics of fermions remains one of the last frontiers beyond the reach of classical simulations and is key to our understanding of quantum behavior in chemistry and materials, with implications for quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-05 Matteo D'Anna , Jannes Nys , Juan Carrasquilla

In this study, we show that quantum walk can describe a Majorana fermion when the coin operator constrained by Lorentz covariance and the initial state satisfies the Majorana condition. The time evolution of a Majorana fermion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Wei-Ting Wang , Xiao-Gang He , Hsien-Chung Kao , Ching-Ray Chang

A quantum simulator is a device engineered to reproduce the properties of an ideal quantum model. It allows the study of quantum systems that cannot be efficiently simulated on classical computers. While a universal quantum computer is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 J. Casanova , C. Sabin , J. Leon , I. L. Egusquiza , R. Gerritsma , C. F. Roos , J. J. Garcia-Ripoll , E. Solano

This study reconsiders the decay of an ordinary particle in bradyons, tachyons and luxons in the field of the relativistic quantum mechanics. Lemke already investigated this from the perspective of covariant kinematics. Since the decay…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Luca Nanni

Coherent control of quantum transitions -- indispensable in quantum technology -- generally relies on the interaction of quantum systems with electromagnetic radiation. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that the non-radiative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dennis Rätzel , Daniel Hartley , Osip Schwartz , Philipp Haslinger

The speed limit of quantum state transfer (QST) in a system of interacting particles is not only important for quantum information processing, but also directly linked to Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that are crucial for understanding various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Casey Jameson , Bora Basyildiz , Daniel Moore , Kyle Clark , Zhexuan Gong

We investigate how the concepts of optimal control of measurables of a system with a time dependent Hamiltonian may be mixed with the level set technique to keep the desired entity invariant. We derive sets of equations for this purpose and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fariel Shafee

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

Optimal quantum control of continuous variable systems poses a formidable computational challenge because of the high-dimensional character of the system dynamics. The framework of quantum invariants can significantly reduce the complexity…

Experiments in coherent nuclear and electron magnetic resonance,and quantum computing in general correspond to control of quantum mechanical systems, guiding them from initial to final target states by unitary transformations. The control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Haidong Yuan , Daxiu Wei , Yajuan Zhang , Steffen Glaser , Navin Khaneja

A quantum gate is realized by specific unitary transformations operating on states representing qubits. Considering a quantum system employed as an element in a quantum computing scheme, the task is therefore to enforce the pre-specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff

We investigate simultaneous estimation of multi-parameter quantum estimation with time-dependent Hamiltonians. We analytically obtain the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix for two-parameter in time-dependent three-level systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

We study some aspects of the Quantum Brachistochrone Problem. Physical realizability of the faster pseudo Hermitian version of the problem is also discussed. This analysis, applied to simple quantum gates, supports an informational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Fabio Masillo

Quantum technologies will ultimately require manipulating many-body quantum systems with high precision. Cold atom experiments represent a stepping stone in that direction: a high degree of control has been achieved on systems of increasing…