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Real-time dynamics of quantum observables provide direct access to excitation spectra and correlation functions in quantum many-body systems, but currently available quantum devices are limited to short evolution times due to decoherence.…

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It is shown that a family of analytically solvable pulses can be used to obtain high fidelity quantum phase gates with surprising robustness against imperfections in the system or pulse parameters. Phase gates are important because they can…

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In this proceedings we present quantum machine learning optimization experiments using stochastic gradient descent with the parameter shift rule algorithm. We first describe the gradient evaluation algorithm and its optimization procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Matteo Robbiati , Stavros Efthymiou , Andrea Pasquale , Stefano Carrazza

Quantum computing allows for the manipulation of highly correlated states whose properties quickly go beyond the capacity of any classical method to calculate. Thus one natural problem which could lend itself to quantum advantage is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kevin Lively , Tim Bode , Jochen Szangolies , Jian-Xin Zhu , Benedikt Fauseweh

Parametric fluctuations or stochastic signals are introduced into the control pulse sequence to investigate the feasibility of random control over quantum open systems. In a large parameter error region, the out-of-order control pulses work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Jun Jing , C. Allen Bishop , Lian-Ao Wu

Quantum computing has been pursued with various hardware platforms, and an optical system is one of the most reasonable choices for large-scale computation. In the optical continuous-variable computation scheme, the incorporation of…

Probabilistic ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers have been introduced over the past decade as uncertainty-aware numerical integrators. They typically proceed by assuming a functional prior to the ODE solution, which is then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Yvann Le Fay , Simo Särkkä , Adrien Corenflos

In a quantum processor, the device design and external controls together contribute to the quality of the target quantum operations. As we continuously seek better alternative qubit platforms, we explore the increasingly large device and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Xiaotong Ni , Hui-Hai Zhao , Lei Wang , Feng Wu , Jianxin Chen

A particular superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)qubit, indicated as double SQUID qubit, can be manipulated by rapidly modifying its potential with the application of fast flux pulses. In this system we observe coherent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-08 F. Chiarello , E. Paladino , M. G. Castellano , C. Cosmelli , A. D'Arrigo , G. Torrioli , G. Falci

Entanglement generation at a macroscopic scale offers an exciting avenue to develop new quantum technologies and study fundamental physics on a tabletop. Cavity quantum optomechanics provides an ideal platform to generate and exploit such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Clarke , P. Sahium , K. E. Khosla , I. Pikovski , M. S. Kim , M. R. Vanner

We utilize genetic algorithms to find optimal dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences for a single-qubit system subjected to a general decoherence model under a variety of control pulse conditions. We focus on the case of sequences with equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Gregory Quiroz , Daniel A. Lidar

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) are successful algorithms for studying physical systems on quantum computers. Recently, they were extended to the measurement-based model of quantum computing, bringing resource graph states and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Albie Chan , Zheng Shi , Luca Dellantonio , Wolfgang Dür , Christine A. Muschik

An essential metric for the quality of a particle-identification experiment is its statistical power to discriminate between signal and background. Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is a basic method for this purpose in many nuclear,…

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The logarithm-determinant is an widely-present operation in many areas of physics and computer science. Derivatives of the logarithm-determinant compute physically relevant quantities in statistical physics models, quantum field theories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Thomas E. Baker , Jaimie A. Greasley

We introduce the quantum stochastic differential equation (QSDE) approach to exactly analyze of the response of quantum systems to a continuous-mode two-photon input. The QSDE description of the two-photon process allows us to integrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Yu Pan , Daoyi Dong , Guofeng Zhang

High-fidelity control of superconducting qubits requires carefully shaped microwave pulses that account for multiple error channels. In this work, we present a pedagogical introduction to pulse-shaping techniques for transmon qubits, aiming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Animesh Patra , Ankur Raina

We introduce the concept of a quantum pulse gate (QPG), a method for accessing the intrinsic broadband spectral mode structure of ultrafast quantum states of light. This mode structure can now be harnessed for applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-07 Andreas Eckstein , Benjamin Brecht , Christine Silberhorn

We develop a new class of genetic algorithm that computationally determines efficient pulse sequences to implement a quantum gate U in a three-qubit system. The method is shown to be quite general, and the same algorithm can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-04 Ashok Ajoy , Anil Kumar

In order to achieve the high-fidelity quantum control needed for a broad range of quantum information technologies, reducing the effects of noise and system inhomogeneities is an essential task. It is well known that a system can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Junkai Zeng , Xiu-Hao Deng , Antonio Russo , Edwin Barnes

We present a new optimization method for small-to-intermediate scale variational algorithms on noisy near-term quantum processors which uses a Gaussian process surrogate model equipped with a classically-evaluated quantum kernel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Alistair W. R. Smith , A. J. Paige , M. S. Kim