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Quantum computing provides a powerful framework for tackling computational problems that are classically intractable. The goal of this paper is to explore the use of quantum computers for solving relevant problems in systems and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Schneider , Julian Berberich

One of the essential building blocks of classical computer programs is the "if" clause, which executes a subroutine depending on the value of a control variable. Similarly, several quantum algorithms rely on applying a unitary operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Mateus Araújo , Adrien Feix , Fabio Costa , Časlav Brukner

The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally quantized, time evolution is governed by a well-known Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Christiane P. Koch , Mikhail Lemeshko , Dominique Sugny

We propose nearly-optimal control strategies for changing states of a quantum system. We argue that quantum control optimization can be studied analytically within some protocol families that depend on a small set of parameters for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen Sun , Avadh Saxena , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Conventional approaches for controlling open quantum systems use coherent control which affects the system's evolution through the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics. Such control, although being extremely efficient for a large variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alexander Pechen , Herschel Rabitz

Understanding and controlling engineered quantum systems is key to developing practical quantum technology. However, given the current technological limitations, such as fabrication imperfections and environmental noise, this is not always…

Manipulation of infinite dimensional quantum systems is important to controlling complex quantum dynamics with many practical physical and chemical backgrounds. In this paper, a general investigation is casted to the controllability problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Re-Bing Wu , Tzyh-Jong Tarn , Chun-Wen Li

In laboratory and numerical experiments, physical quantities are known with a finite precision and described by rational numbers. Based on this, we deduce that quantum control problems both for open and closed systems are in general not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Denys I. Bondar , Alexander N. Pechen

Accurate control of quantum evolution is an essential requirement for quantum state engineering, laser chemistry, quantum information and quantum computing. Conditions of controllability for systems with a finite number of energy levels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Witold Karwowski , R. Vilela Mendes

Quantum algorithms use the principles of quantum mechanics, as for example quantum superposition, in order to solve particular problems outperforming standard computation. They are developed for cryptography, searching, optimisation,…

The controllability property of the unitary propagator of an N-level quantum mechanical system subject to a single control field is described using the structure theory of semisimple Lie algebras. Sufficient conditions are provided for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudio Altafini

This paper provides a brief introduction to learning control of quantum systems. In particular, the following aspects are outlined, including gradient-based learning for optimal control of quantum systems, evolutionary computation for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daoyi Dong

Coherent control, aka quantum control, is a central concept in quantum computing that is attracting increasing attention from both the quantum foundations and quantum software communities. Defining coherent control in the presence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kathleen Barsse , Romain Péchoux , Simon Perdrix

We employ a machine learning-enabled approach to quantum state engineering based on evolutionary algorithms. In particular, we focus on superconducting platforms and consider a network of qubits -- encoded in the states of artificial atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Jonathon Brown , Mauro Paternostro , Alessandro Ferraro

Mathematical theory of the quantum systems control is based on some ideas of the optimal control theory. These ideas are developed here as applied to these systems. The results obtained meet the deficiencies in the basis and algorithms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-22 V. F. Krotov

The most basic scenario of quantum control involves the organized manipulation of pure dynamical states of the system by means of unitary transformations. Recently, Vilela Mendes and Mank'o have shown that the conditions for controllability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mandilara , J. W. Clark

A common objective for quantum control is to force a quantum system, initially in an unknown state, into a particular target subspace. We show that if the subspace is required to be a decoherence-free subspace of dimension greater than 1,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 D. Kielpinski , R. A. Briggs , H. M. Wiseman

This work addresses a fundamental problem of controllability of open quantum systems, meaning the ability to steer arbitrary initial system density matrix into any final density matrix. We show that under certain general conditions open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Alexander Pechen

An exact and analytic control protocol of two types of finite dimensional quantum systems is proposed. The system can be drive to an arbitrary target state using cosine classical fields in finite cycles. The control parameters which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jianju Tang , H. C. Fu

Quantum steering describes the ability of one observer to nonlocally affect the other observer's state through local measurements, which represents a new form of quantum nonlocal correlation and has potential applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Guo-Zhu Pan , Jun-Long Zhao , Zhi Lin , Ming Yang , Gang Zhang , Zhuo-Liang Cao