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Preparing quantum states is a fundamental task in various quantum algorithms. In particular, state preparation in quantum harmonic oscillators (HOs) is crucial for the creation of qudits and the implementation of high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nicolas Parra-A , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada

Recent development in quantum information sciences and technologies, especially building programmable quantum computers, provide us new opportunities to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. We propose qubit models to emulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Meng-Jun Hu , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Xiang Li , Yubao Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Haixing Miao

Quantum information processing often requires the preparation of arbitrary quantum states, such as all the states on the Bloch sphere for two-level systems. While numerical optimization can prepare individual target states, they lack the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Tobias Haug , Wai-Keong Mok , Jia-Bin You , Wenzu Zhang , Ching Eng Png , Leong-Chuan Kwek

Quantum optimal control is a promising approach to improve the accuracy of quantum gates, but it relies on complex algorithms to determine the best control settings. CPU or GPU-based approaches often have delays that are too long to be…

Cat states are an important resource for fault-tolerant quantum computing, where they serve as building blocks for a variety of fault-tolerant primitives. Consequently, the ability to prepare high-quality cat states at large fault distances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Tom Peham , Erik Weilandt , Robert Wille

A gate sequence of single-qubit transformations may be condensed into a single microwave pulse that maps a qubit from an initialized state directly into the desired state of the composite transformation. Here, machine learning is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jaden Nola , Uriah Sanchez , Anusha Krishna Murthy , Elizabeth Behrman , James Steck

Most quantum processors requires pulse sequences for controlling quantum states. Here, we present an alternative algorithm for computing an optimal pulse sequence in order to perform a specific task, being an implementation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 John P. S. Peterson , Roberto S. Sarthour , Raymond Laflamme

Preparation of a target quantum many-body state on quantum simulators is one of the significant steps in quantum science and technology. With a small number of qubits, a few quantum states, such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Donggyu Kim , Eun-Gook Moon

Coherent manipulation of an increasing number of qubits for the generation of entangled states has been an important goal and benchmark in the emerging field of quantum information science. The multiparticle entangled states serve as…

We explore the application of quantum optimal control (QOC) techniques to state preparation of lattice field theories on quantum computers. As a first example, we focus on the Schwinger model, quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Jack Y. Araz , Siddhanth Bhowmick , Matt Grau , Thomas J. McEntire , Felix Ringer

Cat states are a valuable resource for quantum metrology applications, promising to enable sensitivity down to the Heisenberg limit. Moreover, Schr\"odinger cat states, based on a coherent superposition of coherent states, show robustness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 S. Zhao , M. G. Krauss , T. Bienaime , S. Whitlock , C. P. Koch , S. Qvarfort , A. Metelmann

We design a quantum repeater architecture, necessary for long distance quantum networks, using the recently proposed microwave cat state qubits, formed and manipulated via interaction between a superconducting nonlinear element and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sourabh Kumar , Nikolai Lauk , Christoph Simon

A key challenge in scaling quantum computers is the calibration and control of multiple qubits. In solid-state quantum dots, the gate voltages required to stabilize quantized charges are unique for each individual qubit, resulting in a…

Achieving precise preparation of quantum many-body states is crucial for the practical implementation of quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, the inherent challenges posed by unavoidable excitations at critical points during…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Meng-Yun Mao , Zheng Cheng , Liangsheng Li , Ning Wu , Wen-Long You

Quantum state tomography is a daunting challenge of experimental quantum computing even in moderate system size. One way to boost the efficiency of state tomography is via local measurements on reduced density matrices, but the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Tao Xin , Sirui Lu , Ningping Cao , Galit Anikeeva , Dawei Lu , Jun Li , Guilu Long , Bei Zeng

Superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states, introduced in Schroedinger's famous Gedankenexperiment, are an epitome of quantum "strangeness" and a natural tool for determining the validity limits of quantum physics. The…

Neural quantum states are a promising framework for simulating many-body quantum dynamics, as they can represent states with volume-law entanglement. As time evolves, the neural network parameters are typically optimized at discrete time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Dingzu Wang , Wenxuan Zhang , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti

Quantum information processing tasks require exotic quantum states as a prerequisite. They are usually prepared with many different methods tailored to the specific resource state. Here we provide a versatile unified state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Tanjung Krisnanda , Sanjib Ghosh , Tomasz Paterek , Timothy C. H. Liew

Electromechanical systems currently offer a path to engineering quantum states of microwave and micromechanical modes that are of both fundamental and applied interest. Particularly desirable, but not yet observed, are mechanical states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 A. A. Gangat , I. P. McCulloch , G. J. Milburn

A common way to manipulate a quantum system, for example spins or artificial atoms, is to use properly tailored control pulses. In order to accomplish quantum information tasks before coherence is lost, it is crucial to implement the…