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In this work we derive a lower bound for the minimum time required to implement a target unitary transformation through a classical time-dependent field in a closed quantum system. The bound depends on the target gate, the strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Christian Arenz , Benjamin Russell , Daniel Burgarth , Herschel Rabitz

We study the robustness of the evolution of a quantum system against small uncontrolled variations in parameters in the Hamiltonian. We show that the fidelity susceptibility, which quantifies the perturbative error to leading order, can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Pablo M. Poggi , Gabriele De Chiara , Steve Campbell , Anthony Kiely

Quantum control for error correction is critical for the practical use of quantum computers. We address quantum optimal control for single-shot multi-qubit gates by framing as a feasibility problem for the Hamiltonian model and then solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Raymond J. Spiteri , Marina Schmidt , Joydip Ghosh , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum controls realize the unitary or nonunitary operations employed in quantum computers, quantum simulators, quantum communications, and other quantum information devices. They implement the desired quantum dynamics with the help of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 T S Mahesh , Priya Batra , M. Harshanth Ram

A discrete-time method for solving problems in optimal quantum control is presented. Controlling the time discretized markovian dynamics of a quantum system can be reduced to a Markov-decision process. We demonstrate this method in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Jon R. Grice , David A. Meyer

We solve the problem concerning a time optimal return of a particle with a prescribed velocity to the origin by applying a magnitude-bounded force. The equations of controlled motion are derived and explicitly integrated, and the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-11-20 Aleksandr Koshelev

In this paper, we derive sharp lower bounds, also known as quantum speed limits, for the time it takes to transform a quantum system into a state such that an observable assumes its lowest average value. We assume that the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Dan Allan , Niklas Hörnedal , Ole Andersson

Quantum metrology comprises a set of techniques and protocols that utilize quantum features for parameter estimation which can in principle outperform any procedure based on classical physics. We formulate the quantum metrology in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Chungwei Lin , Yanting Ma , Dries Sels

Trajectories of a Bohmian particle confined in time-dependent cylindrical and spherical traps are computed for both contracting and expanding boxes. Quantum effective force is considered in arbitrary directions. It is seen that in contrast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 S. V. Mousavi

In this article we consider a 2-D quantum particle confined a disc whose radius can be deformed continuously in time. We study the problem of controllability of such a quantum particle via deformations of the initial disc, i.e., when we set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Iván Moyano

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries, finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of a set of external fields. We approach the problem using…

In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wei Gong , Dongdong Liang

The optimal control problem for open quantum systems can be formulated as a time-dependent Lindbladian that is parameterized by a number of time-dependent control variables. Given an observable and an initial state, the goal is to tune the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Wenhao He , Tongyang Li , Xiantao Li , Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang , Ke Wang

The objective of this article is to apply recent developments in geometric optimal control to analyze the time minimum control problem of dissipative two-level quantum systems whose dynamics is governed by the Lindblad equation. We focus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 B. Bonnard , D. Sugny

This paper summarizes a research program that has been underway for a decade. The objective is to find a fast and accurate scheme for solving quantum problems which does not involve a Monte Carlo algorithm. We use an alternative strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Lawrence R. Mead , Kimball A. Milton

In this paper we study and solve an optimal control problem motivated by applications in quantum and classical physics. Although apparently simple, this optimal control problem is not easy to solve and we resort to various elaborated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Arnaud Lazarus , Emmanuel Trélat

This paper discusses the energy optimal control problem for the class of quantum systems that possess dynamical symmetry of SU(1,1), which are widely studied in various physical problems in the quantum theory. Based on the maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-13 Jian-Wu Wu , Chun-Wen Li , Jing Zhang , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

The control of any type of quantum hardware invariably necessitates time-dependent driving. If the basis depends on the control parameter, the presence of a time-dependent control field yields an extra term in the Schr\"odinger equation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-25 Ahmed Kenawy , Fabian Hassler , Roman-Pascal Riwar