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Dynamic control via optimized, piecewise-constant pulses is a common paradigm for open-loop control to implement quantum gates. While numerous methods exist for the synthesis of such controls, there are many open questions regarding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 S. P. O'Neil , C. A. Weidner , E. A. Jonckheere , F. C. Langbein , S. G. Schirmer

Control of multi-level quantum systems is sensitive to implementation errors in the control field and uncertainties associated with system Hamiltonian parameters. A small variation in the control field spectrum or the system Hamiltonian can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andy Koswara , Raj Chakrabarti

The presence of decoherence in quantum computers necessitates the suppression of noise. Dynamically corrected gates via specially designed control pulses offer a path forward, but hardware-specific experimental constraints can cause…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Utkan Güngördü , J. P. Kestner

In the era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum computing as well as in error correcting circuits, physical qubits coherence time and high fidelity gates are essential to the functioning of quantum computers. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Max Cykiert , Eran Ginossar

Control pulses that nominally optimize fidelity are sensitive to routine hardware drift and modeling errors. Robust quantum optimal control seeks error-insensitive control pulses that maintain fidelity thresholds and obey hardware…

Robust control of quantum systems is an increasingly relevant field of study amidst the second quantum revolution, but there remains a gap between taming quantum physics and robust control in its modern analytical form that culminated in…

Quantum systems are exceedingly difficult to engineer because they are sensitive to various types of noises. In particular, time-dependent noises are frequently encountered in experiments but how to overcome them remains a challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Despite significant progress in theoretical and laboratory quantum control, engineering quantum systems remains principally challenging due to manifestation of noise and uncertainties associated with the field and Hamiltonian parameters. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Andrew Koswara , Vaibhav Bhutoria , Raj Chakrabarti

High-precision manipulation of multi-qubit quantum systems requires strictly clocked and synchronized multi-channel control signals. However, practical Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) always suffer from random signal jitters and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Hai-Jin Ding , Re-Bing Wu

Robust open-loop steering of a finite-dimensional quantum system is a central problem in a growing number of applications of information engineering. In the present paper, we reformulate the problem in the classical control-theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Ticozzi , Augusto Ferrante , Michele Pavon

Robust quantum control can achieve noise-resilience of quantum systems and quantum technological devices. While the need for noise-resilience grows with the number of fluctuating quantities, and thus typically with the number of qubits,…

We introduce crosstalk-robust gate sets, which are obtained using a novel, scalable optimal control problem exploiting locality. Through the suppression of pairwise quantum crosstalk, the gate sets enable robustness that extends to…

Mitigating noise-induced decoherence is the central challenge in controlling open quantum systems. While existing robust protocols often require precise noise models, we introduce a universal framework for noise-agnostic quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Lixiang Ding , Jingtao Fan , Xingze Qiu

Coherent control errors, for which ideal Hamiltonians are perturbed by unknown multiplicative noise terms, are a major obstacle for reliable quantum computing. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the robustness of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Julian Berberich , Daniel Fink , Christian Holm

Achieving high-fidelity quantum gates is crucial for reliable quantum computing. However, decoherence and control pulse imperfections pose significant challenges in realizing the theoretical fidelity of quantum gates in practical systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Shihui Zhang , Zibo Miao , Yu Pan , Sibo Tao , Yu Chen

Starting with the basic control system model often employed in NMR pulse design, we derive more realistic control system models taking into account effects such as off-resonant excitation for systems with fixed inter-qubit coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 Sonia Schirmer

Robust performance of control schemes for open quantum systems is investigated under classical uncertainties in the generators of the dynamics and nonclassical uncertainties due to decoherence and initial state preparation errors. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Sophie G. Schirmer , Frank C. Langbein , Carrie A. Weidner , Edmond Jonckheere

Robust control design for quantum unitary transformations has been recognized as a fundamental and challenging task in the development of quantum information processing due to unavoidable decoherence or operational errors in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Chengzhi Wu , Bo Qi , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong

Emerging reinforcement learning techniques using deep neural networks have shown great promise in control optimization. They harness non-local regularities of noisy control trajectories and facilitate transfer learning between tasks. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Sergio Boixo , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Hartmut Neven

Current implementations of superconducting qubits are often limited by the low fidelities of multi-qubit gates. We present a reproducible and runtime-efficient pulse-level approach for calibrating an improved cross-resonance gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 David Danin , Felix Tennie