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We introduce a new approach to assess the error of control problems we aim to optimize. The method offers a strategy to define new control pulses that are not necessarily optimal but still able to yield an error not larger than some fixed a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-22 Antonio Negretti , Rosario Fazio , Tommaso Calarco

Quantum optimal control has numerous important applications ranging from pulse shaping in magnetic-resonance imagining to laser control of chemical reactions and quantum computing. Our objective is to address two major challenges that have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Jakub Marecek , Jiri Vala

Optimal control is a central problem in quantum thermodynamics. When minimizing dissipated work and work fluctuations defined via the two-point measurement scheme in open quantum systems, existing approaches largely focus on the rapid- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuki Kurokawa , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Quantum Optimal Control (QOC) enables the realization of accurate operations, such as quantum gates, and support the development of quantum technologies. To date, many QOC frameworks have been developed but those remain only naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Frederic Sauvage , Florian Mintert

Using optimal control, we establish and link the ultimate bounds in time (referred to as quantum speed limit) and energy of two- and three-level quantum nonlinear systems which feature 1:2 resonance. Despite the unreachable complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Jing-jun Zhu , Kaipeng Liu , Xi Chen , Stéphane Guérin

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries, finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of a set of external fields. We approach the problem using…

The lack of a direct map between control fields and desired control objectives poses a significant challenge in applying quantum control theory to quantum technologies. Here, we propose an analytical framework to precisely control a limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qian-Qian Hong , Daoyi Dong , Niels E. Henriksen , Franco Nori , Jun He , Chuan-Cun Shu

With recent improvements in coherence times, superconducting transmon qubits have become a promising platform for quantum computing. They can be flexibly engineered over a wide range of parameters, but also require us to identify an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Michael H. Goerz , Felix Motzoi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Christiane P. Koch

A gradient-based optimization approach combined with automatic differentiation is employed to ensure high accuracy and scalability when working with high-dimensional parameter spaces. Numerical simulations confirm the effectiveness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Roman Sahakyan , Romik Sargsyan , Edgar Pogosyan , Karen Arzumanyan , Emil A. Gazazyan

Simple, precise, and robust control is demanded for operating a large quantum information processor. However, existing routes to high-fidelity quantum control rely heavily on arbitrary waveform generators that are difficult to scale up.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi-Ming Chen , Herschel Rabitz , Re-Bing Wu

A quantum memory is a system that enables transfer, storage, and retrieval of optical quantum states by ON/OFF switching of the control signal in each stages of the memory. In particular, it is known that, for perfect transfer of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Hideaki Nakao , Naoki Yamamoto

Quantum computation is based on implementing selected unitary transformations which represent algorithms. A generalized optimal control theory is used to find the driving field that generates a prespecified unitary transformation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff

The optimal control of two-level systems by time-dependent laser fields is studied using a variational theory. We obtain, for the first time, general analytical expressions for the optimal pulse shapes leading to global maximization or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Garcia , Ilia Grigorenko

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

We present a constructive control scheme for solving quantum state engineering problems based on a parametrization of the state vector in terms of complex hyperspherical coordinates. Unlike many control schemes based on factorization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Weiwei Zhou , Sophie Schirmer , Ming Zhang , Hong-Yi Dai

Optimal control theory provides recipes to achieve quantum operations with high fidelity and speed, as required in quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and computation. While technical advances have achieved the ultrastrong driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 M. Hirose , P. Cappellaro

Optimal control theory is an effective tool to improve parameter estimation of quantum systems. Different methods can be employed for the design of the control protocol. They can be based either on Quantum Fischer Information (QFI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Quentin Ansel , Etienne Dionis , Dominique Sugny

We consider the degrees of controllability of multi-partite quantum systems as well as necessary and sufficient criteria for each case. The results are applied to the problem of simultaneous control of an ensemble of quantum dots with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sonia G Schirmer , Ivan C H Pullen , Allan I Solomon

In this work, we address the problem of maximizing fidelity in a quantum state transformation process controlled in such a way as to keep decoherence within given bounds. We consider a three-level $\Lambda$-type atom subjected to Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , Fernando Lobo Pereira