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Near-term quantum computations are limited by high error rates, the scarcity of qubits and low qubit connectivity. Increasing support for mid-circuit measurements and qubit reset in near-term quantum computers enables qubit reuse that may…

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Achieving high-fidelity control of quantum systems is of fundamental importance in physics, chemistry and quantum information sciences. However, the successful implementation of a high-fidelity quantum control scheme also requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Yu Guo , Daoyi Dong , Chuan-Cun Shu

In the endeavour to make quantum computers a reality, integrated superconducting circuits have become a promising architecture. A major challenge of this approach is decoherence originating from spurious atomic tunneling defects at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Jürgen Lisenfeld , Alexander Bilmes , Alexey V. Ustinov

In creating a large-scale quantum information processor, the ability to construct control pulses for implementing an arbitrary quantum circuit in a scalable manner is an important requirement. For liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Jun Li , Jiangyu Cui , Raymond Laflamme , Xinhua Peng

We introduce a novel quantum control method for superconducting transmon qubits that substantially outperforms conventional techniques in precision and robustness against coherent errors. Our approach leverages composite pulses (CP) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Hristo G. Tonchev , Boyan T. Torosov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

Superconducting coupler architecture demonstrates great potential for scalable and high-performance quantum processors, yet how to design efficiently and automatically 'Qubit-Coupler-Qubit (QCQ)' of high performance from the layout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Fei-Yu Li , Li-Jing Jin

We present an efficient approach to optimising pulse sequences for implementing fast entangling two-qubit gates on trapped ion quantum information processors. We employ a two-phase procedure for optimising gate fidelity, which we…

Many techniques in quantum control rely on frequency separation as a means for suppressing unwanted couplings. In its simplest form, the mechanism relies on the low bandwidth of control pulses of long duration. Here we perform a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Felix Motzoi , Frank K. Wilhelm

Designing multi-qubit quantum logic gates with experimental constraints is an important problem in quantum computing. Here, we develop a new quantum optimal control algorithm for finding unitary transformations with constraints on the…

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We show that quantum feedback control can be used as a quantum error correction process for errors induced by weak continuous measurement. In particular, when the error model is restricted to one, perfectly measured, error channel per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charlene Ahn , H. W. Wiseman , G. J. Milburn

To make arbitrarily accurate quantum computation possible, practical realization of quantum computers will require suppressing noise in quantum memory and gate operations to make it below a threshold value. A scheme based on realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lu-Ming Duan , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum optimal control involves setting up an objective function that evaluates the quality of an operator representing the realized process w.r.t. the target process. Here we propose a stronger objective function which incorporates not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Priya Batra , V. R. Krithika , T. S. Mahesh

Error mitigation has enabled quantum computing applications with over one hundred qubits and deep circuits. The most general error mitigation methods rely on a faithful characterization of the noise channels of the hardware. However,…

Gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots utilize fast electrical control to manipulate spin and charge states of individual electrons. Electrical pulse distortions can limit control fidelities but are difficult to measure at the device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jiheng Duan , Fernando Torres-Leal , John M. Nichol

We employ quantum optimal control theory to realize quantum gates for two protected superconducting circuits: the heavy-fluxonium qubit and the 0-$\pi$ qubit. Utilizing automatic differentiation facilitates the simultaneous inclusion of…

High-fidelity state transfer is fundamentally limited by time-reversal symmetry: one qubit emits a photon with a certain temporal pulse shape, whereas a second qubit requires the time-reversed pulse shape to efficiently absorb this photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zeyu Kuang , Oliver Diekmann , Lorenz Fischer , Stefan Rotter , Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero

A central challenge for implementing quantum computing in the solid state is decoupling the qubits from the intrinsic noise of the material. We investigate the implementation of quantum gates for a paradigmatic, non-Markovian model: A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 P. Rebentrost , I. Serban , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen , F. K. Wilhelm

We present an improvement to the cross resonance gate realized with the addition of resonant, target rotary pulses. These pulses, applied directly to the target qubit, are simultaneous to and in phase with the echoed cross resonance pulses.…

We introduce a new approach to assess the error of control problems we aim to optimize. The method offers a strategy to define new control pulses that are not necessarily optimal but still able to yield an error not larger than some fixed a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-22 Antonio Negretti , Rosario Fazio , Tommaso Calarco

High fidelity coherent control of quantum systems is critical to building quantum devices and quantum computers. We provide a general optimal control framework for designing control sequences that account for hardware control distortions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Ian N. Hincks , Christopher Granade , Troy W. Borneman , D. G. Cory