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Manipulating the dynamics of open quantum systems is a crucial requirement for large-scale quantum computers. Finding ways to overcome or extend decoherence times is a challenging task. Already at the level of a single two-level atom, its…

We derive ultimate precision bounds for estimating parameters encoded in \emph{time-dependent} Hamiltonians in the presence of general Markovian noise, allowing for arbitrary adaptive protocols with fast controls and noiseless ancillas.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Luca Previdi , Francesco Albarelli

Supervised learning algorithms take as input a set of labelled examples and return as output a predictive model. Such models are used to estimate labels for future, previously unseen examples drawn from the same generating distribution. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Sally Shrapnel , Fabio Costa , Gerard Milburn

Pulses to steer the time evolution of quantum systems can be designed with optimal control theory. In most cases it is the coherent processes that can be controlled and one optimizes the time evolution towards a target unitary process,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Daniel J. Egger , Frank K. Wilhelm

Learning to control unknown nonlinear dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning and control theory. A commonly applied approach is to first explore the environment (exploration), learn an accurate model of it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Andrew Wagenmaker , Guanya Shi , Kevin Jamieson

We present a protocol using machine learning (ML) to simultaneously optimize the quantum error-correcting code space and the corresponding recovery map in the framework of continuous-time quantum error correction. Given a Hilbert space and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Anirudh Lanka , Shashank Hegde , Todd A. Brun

Non-Markovian memory effects in open quantum systems provide valuable resources for preserving coherence and enhancing controllability. However, exploiting them requires strategies adapted to history-dependent dynamics. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Safae Gaidi , Abdallah Slaoui , Mohammed EL Falaki , Amine Jaouadi

Memory or time-non-local effects in open quantum dynamics pose theoretical as well as practical challenges in the understanding and control of noisy quantum systems. While there has been a comprehensive and concerted effort towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 A. Keefe , N. Agarwal , A. Kamal

Quantum learning tasks often leverage randomly sampled quantum circuits to characterize unknown systems. An efficient approach known as "circuit reusing," where each circuit is executed multiple times, reduces the cost compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Zhuo Chen , Guoding Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

We study the estimation precision attainable by entanglement-enhanced Ramsey interferometry in the presence of spatiotemporally correlated non-classical noise. Our analysis relies on an exact expression of the reduced density matrix of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Francisco Riberi , Leigh M. Norris , Felix Beaudoin , Lorenza Viola

Estimation of parameters is a pivotal task throughout science and technology. Quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound provides a fundamental limit of precision allowed to achieve under quantum theory. For closed quantum systems, it has been shown how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 S. Alipour , M. Mehboudi , A. T. Rezakhani

Quantum probes offer a powerful platform for exploring environmental dynamics, particularly through their sensitivity to decoherence processes. In this work, we investigate the emergence of critical behavior in the estimation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 M. Cristina Rodriguez , Analia Zwick , Gonzalo A. Alvarez

We investigate continuous quantum error correction, comparing performance under a Markovian error model to two distinct non-Markovian models. The first non-Markovian model involves an interaction Hamiltonian between the system and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Juan Garcia Nila , Todd A. Brun

In many learning based control methodologies, learning the unknown dynamic model precedes the control phase, while the aim is to control the system such that it remains in some safe region of the state space. In this work, our aim is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Farhad Farokhi , Alex Leong , Iman Shames , Mohammad Zamani

This paper is about a real-time model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for a particular class of model based controllers, whose objective consists of a nominal tracking objective and an additional learning objective. Here, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Xuhui Feng , Boris Houska

We present safe control of partially-observed linear time-varying systems in the presence of unknown and unpredictable process and measurement noise. We introduce a control algorithm that minimizes dynamic regret, i.e., that minimizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Hongyu Zhou , Vasileios Tzoumas

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

In this paper, we focus on activating only a few sensors, among many available, to estimate the state of a stochastic process of interest. This problem is important in applications such as target tracking and simultaneous localization and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Vasileios Tzoumas , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we study asymptotic properties of problems of control of stochastic discrete time systems (also known as Markov decision processes) with time averaging and time discounting optimality criteria, and we establish that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Vladimir Gaitsgory , Lucas Gamertsfelder