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Shortcuts to adiabaticity is a general method for speeding up adiabatic quantum protocols, and has many potential applications in quantum information processing. Unfortunately, analytically constructing shortcuts to adiabaticity for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 F. Setiawan , Peter Groszkowski , Hugo Ribeiro , Aashish A. Clerk

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…

Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bo Xing , Jesús G. Parejo , Sofía Martínez-Garaot , Paola Cappellaro , Mikel Palmero

The analytical expression for shortcuts to adiabaticity for any switching time and any thermally isolated system performing a finite-time and weakly driven process is presented. It is based on the analytical solution of the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Pierre Nazé

We formulate the theory of shortcuts to adiabaticity in classical mechanics. For a reference Hamiltonian, the counterdiabatic term is constructed from the dispersionless Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy. Then the adiabatic theorem holds…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Manaka Okuyama , Kazutaka Takahashi

Shortcuts to adiabaticity are alternative fast processes which reproduce the same final state as the adiabatic process in a finite or even shorter time, which have been extended from Hermitian systems to non-Hermitian systems in recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 T. Z. Luan , H. Z. Shen , X. X. Yi

Shortcuts to adiabaticity provide a general approach to mimic adiabatic quantum processes via arbitrarily fast evolutions in Hilbert space. For these counter-diabatic evolutions, higher speed comes at higher energy cost. Here, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

The evolution of a system induced by counter-diabatic driving mimics the adiabatic dynamics without the requirement of slow driving. Engineering it involves diagonalizing the instantaneous Hamiltonian of the system and results in the need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Adolfo del Campo

Precise manipulation of quantum effects at the atomic and nanoscale has become an essential task in ongoing scientific and technological endeavours. Quantum control methods are thus routinely exploited for research in areas such as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Callum W. Duncan , Pablo M. Poggi , Marin Bukov , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner , Steve Campbell

Quantum algorithms are prominent in the pursuit of achieving quantum advantage in various computational tasks. However, addressing challenges, such as limited qubit coherence and high error rate in near-term devices, requires extensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Julián Ferreiro-Vélez , Iñaki Iriarte-Zendoia , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

High control in the preparation and manipulation of states is an experimental and theoretical important task in many quantum protocols. Shortcuts to adiabaticity methods allow to obtain desirable states of a adiabatic dynamics but in short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Jonas F. G. Santos

We propose a simple construction of shortcuts to adiabaticity tracking instantaneous stationary states in classical spin systems without knowing tracked stationary states. In our construction, control fields of counter-diabatic driving are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Takuya Hatomura , Takashi Mori

The design of quantum control methods has been shown to greatly improve the performance of many evolving quantum technologies. To this end, the usage of adiabatic dynamics to drive quantum systems is seriously limited by the action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are a collection of quantum control techniques that achieve high fidelity outside of the adiabatic regime. Recently an extension to shortcuts to adiabaticity was proposed by the authors [Phys. Rev. Research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Chris Whitty , Anthony Kiely , Andreas Ruschhaupt

A universal scheme is introduced to speed up the dynamics of a driven open quantum system along a prescribed trajectory of interest. This framework generalizes counterdiabatic driving to open quantum processes. Shortcuts to adiabaticity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 S. Alipour , A Chenu , A. T. Rezakhani , A. del Campo

The existence of singularities in the spectrum of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians leads to a non-trivial spectral topology which can be exploited to generate topological operations. However, their implementation has remained elusive due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Vishnu Chavva , Hugo Ribeiro

Shortcut to adiabaticity in various quantum systems has attracted much attention with the wide applications in quantum information processing and quantum control. In this paper, we concentrate on stimulated Raman shortcut-to-adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yi-Chao Li , Xi Chen

We give a pedagogical introduction to dynamical invariant formalism of shortcuts to adiabaticity. For a given operator form of the Hamiltonian with undetermined coefficients, the dynamical invariant is introduced to design the coefficients.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Kazutaka Takahashi

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

Shortcuts to adiabaticity provides a flexible method to accelerate and improve a quantum control task beyond adiabatic criteria. Here we propose the reverse-engineering approach to design the longitudinal coupling between a set of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 F. A. Cárdenas-López , J. C. Retamal , Xi. Chen