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This paper proposes an optimal, grid-aware control framework for the islanding, island-operation and resynchronisation of hybrid AC/DC microgrids. The optimal control framework is based on a formally derived linearized load-flow model for…

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Quantum optimal control theory (QOCT) can be used to design the shape of electromagnetic pulses that implement operations on quantum devices. By using non-trivially shaped waveforms, gates can be made significantly faster than those built…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alonso Hernández-Antón , Fernando Luis , Alberto Castro

Electronic states in silicon quantum dots are examined theoretically, taking into account a multivalley structure of the conduction band. We find that (i) exchange interaction hardly works between electrons in different valleys. In…

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Hybrid quantum systems seek to combine the strength of its constituents to master the fundamental conflicting requirements of quantum technology: fast and accurate systems control together with perfect shielding from the environment,…

Silicon spin qubits are marred by the valley degeneracy of the conduction band. In a nanodevice, the degeneracy is lifted by interfaces and alloy disorder, but the arising valley splitting is small, of order 100 $\mu$eV in Si/SiGe quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Lukas Cvitkovich , Peter Stano , Dominique Bougeard , Yann-Michel Niquet , Daniel Loss

In solid, the crystalline structure can endow electron an internal degree of freedom known as valley, which characterizes the degenerate energy minima in momentum space. The recent success in optical pumping of valley polarization in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Xing-Tao An , Jiang Xiao , M. W. -Y. Tu , Hongyi Yu , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Wang Yao

Recent experimental breakthroughs, particularly for single-qubit and two-qubit gates exceeding the error correction threshold, highlight silicon spin qubits as leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. In the existing…

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We consider the problem of voltage stability and reactive power balancing in islanded small-scale electrical networks outfitted with DC/AC inverters ("microgrids"). A droop-like voltage feedback controller is proposed which is quadratic in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 John W. Simpson-Porco , Florian Dorfler , Francesco Bullo

Qubit shuttling promises to advance some quantum computing platforms to the qubit register sizes needed for effective quantum error correction (QEC), but also introduces additional errors whose impact must be evaluated. The established…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Berat Yenilen , Arnau Sala , Hendrik Bluhm , Markus Müller , Manuel Rispler

The ability to shuttle coherently individual electron spins in arrays of quantum dots is a key procedure for the development of scalable quantum information platforms. It allows the use of sparsely populated electron spin arrays, envisioned…

The control and manipulation of the valley and spin degrees of freedom have received great interests in fundamental studies and advanced information technologies. Compared with magnetic means, it is highly desirable to realize more…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-22 Li Liang , Ying Yang , Xiaohui Wang , Xiao Li

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

The spin-valley or Kramers qubit promises significantly enhanced spin-valley lifetimes due to strong coupling of the electrons' spin to their momentum (valley) degrees of freedom. In transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such spin-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Aakash Shandilya , Sundeep Kapila , Radha Krishnan , Bent Weber , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

The performance and scalability of silicon spin qubits depend directly on the value of the conduction band valley splitting. In this work, we investigate the influence of electromagnetic fields and the interface width on the valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Jonas R. F. Lima , Guido Burkard

Once called a "classically non-describable two-valuedness" by Pauli , the electron spin is a natural resource for long-lived quantum information since it is mostly impervious to electric fluctuations and can be replicated in large arrays…

The transport of quantum information between different nodes of a quantum device is among the challenging functionalities of a quantum processor. In the context of spin qubits, this requirement can be met by coherent electron spin shuttling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Florian Ginzel , Adam R. Mills , Jason R. Petta , Guido Burkard

Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure introduces complex challenges to urban distribution networks, particularly under extreme demand events. A critical barrier to resilience assessment is the scale gap between micro-level charging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yifan Wang

Many optimally scaling quantum simulation algorithms employ controlled time evolution of the Hamiltonian, which is typically the major bottleneck for their efficient implementation. This work establishes a compression protocol for encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Erenay Karacan

Engineering conduction-band valley couplings is a key challenge for Si-based spin qubits. Recent work has shown that the most reliable method for enhancing valley couplings entails adding Ge concentration oscillations to the quantum well.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Benjamin D. Woods , Hudaiba Soomro , E. S. Joseph , Collin C. D. Frink , Robert Joynt , M. A. Eriksson , Mark Friesen

Electron shuttling is one of the current avenues being pursued to scale semiconductor quantum dot-based spin qubits. Adiabatic spin qubit transfer along a chain of tunnel-coupled quantum dots is one of the possible schemes. In this scheme,…

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