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Quantum metrology typically demands the preparation of exotic quantum probe states, such as entangled or squeezed states, to surpass classical limits. However, the need for carefully calibrated system parameters and finely optimized quantum…

The optimization of robust quantum control is often tailored to specific tasks and suffers from inefficiencies due to the complexity of cost functions. Our recent findings indicate a highly effective methodology for the engineering of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Huiqi Xue , Xiu-Hao Deng

Quantum discrimination and estimation are pivotal for many quantum technologies, and their performance depends on the optimal choice of probe state and measurement. Here we show that their performance can be further improved by suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Daniel Basilewitsch , Haidong Yuan , Christiane P. Koch

Reducing decoherence is an essential step toward realizing general-purpose quantum computers beyond the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. To this end, dynamical decoupling (DD) approaches in which external fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki , Suicho Mikami , Toru Ajiki , David J. Tannor

The quantum circuit model is an abstraction that hides the underlying physical implementation of gates and measurements on a quantum computer. For precise control of real quantum hardware, the ability to execute pulse and readout-level…

We study coherent quantum control strategy which is robust with respect to coupling with an external environment. We model this interaction by appending an additional subsystem to the initial system and we choose the strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

The past decade has demonstrated increasing interests in using optimal control based methods within coherent quantum controllable systems. The versatility of such methods has been demonstrated with particular elegance within nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ivan I. Maximov , Niels Chr. Nielsen , Julien Salomon , Gabriel Turinici

Strontium clock atom interferometry is a promising new technique, with multiple experiments under development to explore its potential for dark matter and gravitational wave detection. In these detectors, large momentum transfer (LMT) using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Zilin Chen , Garrett Louie , Yiping Wang , Tejas Deshpande , Tim Kovachy

Quantum computing requires the optimization of control pulses to achieve high-fidelity quantum gates. We propose a machine learning-based protocol to address the challenges of evaluating gradients and modeling complex system dynamics. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Paul Surrey , Julian D. Teske , Tobias Hangleiter , Hendrik Bluhm , Pascal Cerfontaine

Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way possible, has evolved into one of the cornerstones for enabling…

Quantum optimal control (QOC) provides a systematic framework for achieving high-fidelity operations in quantum systems and plays a central role in tasks such as gate synthesis, state transfer, and pulse design. Existing QOC methods broadly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zeki Zeybek , Rick Mukherjee , Peter Schmelcher

We present a combined analytical and numerical investigation to show how an optimal control field can be designed to generate maximum field-free orientation of molecules for three populated rotational states. Based on a model involving pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Qian-Qian Hong , Li-Bao Fan , Chuan-Cun Shu , Niels E. Henriksen

The ability to engineer high-fidelity gates on quantum processors in the presence of systematic errors remains the primary barrier to achieving quantum advantage. Quantum optimal control methods have proven effective in experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Thomas Propson , Brian E. Jackson , Jens Koch , Zachary Manchester , David I. Schuster

Genetic algorithms, as implemented in optimal control strategies, are currently successfully exploited in a wide range of problems in molecular physics. In this context, laser control of molecular alignment and orientation remains a very…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Atabek , C. M. Dion

Quantum control is an essential tool for the operation of quantum technologies such as quantum computers, simulators, and sensors. Although there are sophisticated theoretical tools for developing quantum control protocols, formulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hanhan Li , Alireza Shabani , Mohan Sarovar , Birgitta K. Whaley

Optical techniques for the quantum control of the dynamics of multiexciton states in a semiconductor quantum dot are explored in theory. Composite bichromatic phase-locked pulses are shown to reduce the time of elementary quantum operations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Piermarocchi , Pochung Chen , Y. S. Dale , L. J. Sham

Sufficient conditions for complete controllability of $N$-level quantum systems subject to a single control pulse that addresses multiple allowed transitions concurrently are established. The results are applied in particular to Morse and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. G. Schirmer , H. Fu , A. I. Solomon

A general approach is introduced for the efficient simultaneous optimization of pulses that compensate each other' s imperfections within the same scan. This is applied to broadband Ramsey-type experiments, resulting in pulses with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Braun , Steffen J. Glaser

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.…

The development of efficient algorithms that generate robust quantum controls is crucial for the realization of quantum technologies. The commonly used gradient-based optimization algorithms are limited by their sensitivity to the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 M. Harshanth Ram , V. R. Krithika , Priya Batra , T. S. Mahesh