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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…

Dynamic control via optimized, piecewise-constant pulses is a common paradigm for open-loop control to implement quantum gates. While numerous methods exist for the synthesis of such controls, there are many open questions regarding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 S. P. O'Neil , C. A. Weidner , E. A. Jonckheere , F. C. Langbein , S. G. Schirmer

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

Control of open quantum systems is an essential ingredient to the realization of contemporary quantum science and technology. We demonstrate such control by employing a thermodynamically consistent framework, taking into account the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

Active control of quantum systems enables diverse applications ranging from quantum computation to manipulation of molecular processes. Maximum speeds and related bounds have been identified from uncertainty principles and related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Hanwen Zhang , Zeyu Kuang , Shruti Puri , Owen D. Miller

In this article we explore a modification in the problem of controlling the rotation of a two level quantum system from an initial state to a final state in minimum time. Specifically we consider the case where the qubit is being weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 Srinivas Sridharan

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

Differential sensitivity techniques originally developed to study the robustness of energy landscape controllers are generalized to the important case of closed quantum systems subject to continuously varying controls. Vanishing sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Sean Patrick O'Neil , Edmond Jonckheere , Sophie Schirmer

Quantum control of an open system is demonstrated employing a thermodynamically consistent master equation. In this framework, the open system dynamics depend on the control protocol due to the dressing of the system by the drive. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

The design and analysis of controllers to regulate excitation transport in quantum spin rings presents challenges in the application of classical feedback control techniques to synthesize effective control, and generates results in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sean O'Neil , Frank Langbein , Edmond Jonckheere , S Shermer

Quantum Optimal Control is an established field of research which is necessary for the development of Quantum Technologies. In recent years, Machine Learning techniques have been proved usefull to tackle a variety of quantum problems. In…

This paper studies a quantum risk-sensitive estimation problem and investigates robustness properties of the filter. This is a direct extension to the quantum case of analogous classical results. All investigations are based on a discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Naoki Yamamoto , Luc Bouten

Recently, there has been a surge of research on a class of methods called feedback optimization. These are methods to steer the state of a control system to an equilibrium that arises as the solution of an optimization problem. Despite the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper is concerned with a kind of risk-sensitive optimal control problem for fully coupled forward-backward stochastic systems. The control variable enters the diffusion term of the state equation and the control domain is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Jingtao Lin , Jingtao Shi

The problem of open-loop dynamical control of generic open quantum systems is addressed. In particular, I focus on the task of effectively switching off environmental couplings responsible for unwanted decoherence and dissipation effects.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Lorenza Viola

We present a broad summary of research involving the application of quantum feedback control techniques to optical set-ups, from the early enhancement of optical amplitude squeezing to the recent stabilisation of photon number states in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 Alessio Serafini

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

The limits of quantum feedback control have immediate consequences for quantum information science at large, yet remain largely unexplored. Here, we combine quantum filtering theory and moment-sum-of-squares techniques to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Flemming Holtorf , Frank Schäfer , Julian Arnold , Christopher Rackauckas , Alan Edelman

In this paper, we consider the feedback stabilization problem for N-level quantum angular momentum systems undergoing continuous-time measurements. By using stochastic and geometric control tools, we provide sufficient conditions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Weichao Liang , Nina H. Amini , Paolo Mason

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong