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Robust control design is mainly devoted to guarantee closed-loop stability of a model-based control law in presence of parametric and structural uncertainties. The control law is usually a complex feedback law which is derived from a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Enrico Canuto , Wilber Acuna-Bravo , Andrés Molano-Jimenez , José Ospina , Carlos Perez-Montenegro

This paper presents a survey on quantum control theory and applications from a control systems perspective. Some of the basic concepts and main developments (including open-loop control and closed-loop control) in quantum control theory are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-12 Daoyi Dong , Ian R Petersen

We study the robustness of the evolution of a quantum system against small uncontrolled variations in parameters in the Hamiltonian. We show that the fidelity susceptibility, which quantifies the perturbative error to leading order, can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Pablo M. Poggi , Gabriele De Chiara , Steve Campbell , Anthony Kiely

Neural networks have become increasingly popular in controller design due to their versatility and efficiency. However, their integration into feedback systems can pose stability challenges, particularly in the presence of uncertainties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Development of robust quantum control has been challenging and there are numerous obstacles to applying classical robust control to quantum system including bilinearity, marginal stability, state preparation errors, nonlinear figures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 C. A. Weidner , S. G. Schirmer , F. C. Langbein , E. A. Jonckheere

This paper addresses a fundamental and important question in control: under what conditions does there fail to exist a robust control policy that keeps the state of a constrained linear system within a target set, despite bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Paul Trodden , José M. Maestre , Hideaki Ishii

Robust control design for quantum unitary transformations has been recognized as a fundamental and challenging task in the development of quantum information processing due to unavoidable decoherence or operational errors in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Chengzhi Wu , Bo Qi , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong

Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavour for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. Here the robustness of coherence is defined and proven a full monotone in the context of the recently introduced resource theories of…

In building a quantum information processor (QIP), the challenge is to coherently control a large quantum system well enough to perform an arbitrary quantum algorithm and to be able to correct errors induced by decoherence. Nuclear magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. A. Ryan , C. Negrevergne , M. Laforest , E. Knill , R. Laflamme

Quantum computing comes with the potential to push computational boundaries in various domains including, e.g., cryptography, simulation, optimization, and machine learning. Exploiting the principles of quantum mechanics, new algorithms can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Julian Berberich , Robert L. Kosut , Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen

This paper provides a framework for the control of quantum mechanical systems with scattering states, i.e., systems with continuous spectra. We present the concept and prove a criterion of the approximate strong smooth controllability. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Re-Bing Wu , Tzyh-Jong Tarn , Chun-Wen Li

This paper summarizes several recent developments in the area of estimation and robust control of quantum systems and outlines several directions for future research. Quantum state tomography via linear regression estimation and adaptive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Daoyi Dong , Yuanlong Wang

Advancing quantum technologies requires precise and robust coherent control of quantum systems. Robust higher-order Hamiltonian engineering is essential for high-precision control and for accessing effective dynamics absent at zeroth order.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jiahui Chen , David Cory

Resource tradeoffs can often be established by solving an appropriate robust optimization problem for a variety of scenarios involving constraints on optimization variables and uncertainties. Using an approach based on sequential convex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Robert L. Kosut , Matthew D. Grace , Constantin Brif

In this work we analyze and bound the effect of modeling errors on the stabilization of pure states or subspaces for quantum stochastic evolutions. Different approaches are used for open-loop and feedback control protocols. For both, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Weichao Liang , Kentaro Ohki , Francesco Ticozzi

Despite significant progress in theoretical and laboratory quantum control, engineering quantum systems remains principally challenging due to manifestation of noise and uncertainties associated with the field and Hamiltonian parameters. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Andrew Koswara , Vaibhav Bhutoria , Raj Chakrabarti

This paper considers links between the original risk-sensitive performance criterion for quantum control systems and its recent quadratic-exponential counterpart. We discuss a connection between the minimization of these cost functionals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen , Matthew R. James

Robust control design for quantum systems has been recognized as a key task in quantum information technology, molecular chemistry and atomic physics. In this paper, an improved differential evolution algorithm, referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Daoyi Dong , Xi Xing , Hailan Ma , Chunlin Chen , Zhixin Liu , Herschel Rabitz

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have highlighted the importance of mitigating system imperfections, including parameter uncertainties and decoherence effects, to improve the performance of experimental platforms. However, most…

In the era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum computing as well as in error correcting circuits, physical qubits coherence time and high fidelity gates are essential to the functioning of quantum computers. In this paper, we demonstrate…

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