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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…

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We have developed methods for performing qudit quantum computation in the Jaynes-Cummings model with the qudits residing in a finite subspace of individual harmonic oscillator modes, resonantly coupled to a spin-1/2 system. The first method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Brian Mischuck , Klaus Mølmer

The Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) method enhances optimization in variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) by incorporating geometric insights from the quantum state space through the Fubini-Study metric. In this work, we extend QNG by…

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The challenge in building high-fidelity quantum gates lies in overcoming control errors and decoherence effects caused by the coupling between the quantum system and the external environment. Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation uses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yue Heng Liu , Qi Li

There is no unique way to encode a quantum algorithm into a quantum circuit. With limited qubit counts, connectivity, and coherence times, a quantum circuit optimization is essential to make the best use of near-term quantum devices. We…

Constructing high-fidelity control fields that are robust to control, system, and/or surrounding environment uncertainties is a crucial objective for quantum information processing. Using the two-state Landau-Zener model for illustrative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll

Due to its fast and robust characteristics, nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation with various optimized techniques has received much attention. However, these strategies either require precise pulse control or can only mitigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Cheng-Yun Ding , Wan-Fang Liu , Li-Hua Zhang , Jian Zhou , Zheng-Yuan Xue

We explore quantum search from the geometric viewpoint of a complex projective space $CP$, a space of rays. First, we show that the optimal quantum search can be geometrically identified with the shortest path along the geodesic joining a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Akimasa Miyake , Miki Wadati

Developing scalable, fault-tolerant atomic quantum processors requires precise control over large arrays of optical beams. This remains a major challenge due to inherent imperfections in classical control hardware, such as inter-channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qian Ding , Dirk Englund

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is currently the flagship algorithm for solving electronic structure problems on near-term quantum computers. This hybrid quantum/classical algorithm involves implementing a sequence of…

Distributed quantum computing offers a potential solution to the complexity of superconducting chip hardware layouts and error correction algorithms. High-quality gates between distributed chips enable the simplification of existing error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yunan Li , Xi Zhang , Weixin Zhang , Ruonan Guo , Yu Zhang , Xinsheng Tan , Yang Yu

We discuss quantum optimal control of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in magnetic microtraps. The objective is to transfer a condensate from the ground state to the first-excited state. This type of control problem is typically solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Jens Jakob Sørensen , Mikel Aranburu , Till Heinzel , Jacob Sherson

Geometric quantum computation offers a potential route to fault-tolerant quantum information processing by exploiting the global nature of geometric phases. However, achieving controlled high-order suppression of multiple error sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Hai Xu , Tao Chen , Junkai Zeng , Xiu-Hao Deng , Fang Gao , Xin Wang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Chengxian Zhang

Nearly all modern solid-state quantum processors approach quantum computation with a set of discrete qubit operations (gates) that can achieve universal quantum control with only a handful of primitive gates. In principle, this approach is…

The development of quantum control methods is an essential task for emerging quantum technologies. In general, the process of optimizing quantum controls scales very unfavorably in system size due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Jun Li

A foundational assumption of quantum error correction theory is that quantum gates can be scaled to large processors without exceeding the error-threshold for fault tolerance. Two major challenges that could become fundamental roadblocks…

Successful implementation of a fault-tolerant quantum computation on a system of qubits places severe demands on the hardware used to control the many-qubit state. It is known that an accuracy threshold $P_{a}$ exists for any quantum gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 Yuchen Peng , Frank Gaitan

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

Adaptive ansatz construction has emerged as a powerful technique for reducing circuit depth and improving optimization efficiency in variational quantum eigensolvers. However, existing adaptive methods, including ADAPT-VQE, rely solely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Mohammad Aamir Sohail , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

The successful application of Quantum Optimal Control (QOC) over the past decades unlocked the possibility of directing the dynamics of quantum systems. Nevertheless, solutions obtained from QOC algorithms are usually highly irregular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Martin Larocca , Esteban A. Calzetta , Diego A. Wisniacki