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To achieve the practical applications of near-term noisy quantum devices, low-cost ways to mitigate the noise damages in the devices are essential. In many applications, the noiseless state we want to prepare is often a pure state, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Zhenyu Cai

The no-knowledge quantum feedback was proposed by Szigeti et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 020407 (2014), as a measurement-based feedback protocol for decoherence suppression for an open quantum system. By continuously measuring environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jirawat Saiphet , Sujin Suwanna , André R. R. Carvalho , Areeya Chantasri

We introduce two classes of lightweight, adaptive calibration protocols for quantum computers that leverage fast feedback. The first enables shot-by-shot updates to device parameters using measurement outcomes from simple,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Alicia B. Magann , Nathan E. Miller , Robin Blume-Kohout , Peter Maunz , Kevin C. Young

We report on a quantum thermodynamic method to purify a qubit on a quantum processing unit (QPU) equipped with (nearly) identical qubits. Our starting point is a three qubit design that emulates the well known two qubit swap engine. Similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Andrea Solfanelli , Alessandro Santini , Michele Campisi

Fast and reliable reset of a qubit is a key prerequisite for any quantum technology. For real world open quantum systems undergoing non-Markovian dynamics, reset implies not only purification, but in particular erasure of initial…

Readout of the state of a superconducting qubit by homodyne detection of the output signal from a dispersively coupled microwave resonator is a common technique in circuit quantum electrodynamics, and is often claimed to be quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Luke C. G. Govia , Frank K. Wilhelm

We propose a feedback control scheme for generating and stabilizing pure states of transport devices, such as charge qubits, under non-equilibrium conditions. The purification of the device state is conditioned on single electron jumps and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Christina Pöltl , Clive Emary , Tobias Brandes

A measurement-based quantum feedback protocol is developed for spin state initialization in a gate-defined double quantum dot spin qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator. The protocol improves qubit state initialization as it is able…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Azzouz Aarab , Rémi Azouit , Vincent Reiher , Yves Bérubé-Lauzière

Quantum systems are inherently fragile to environmental fluctuations or decoherence, limiting their advantages in applications of quantum information and quantum computation. State purification offers a route to recover the purity of system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 C. G. Feyisa , Huan-Yu Ku , J. -S. You , H. H. Jen

The informational approach to continuous quantum measurement is derived from POVM formalism for a mesoscopic scattering detector measuring a charge qubit. Quantum Bayesian equations for the qubit density matrix are derived, and cast into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew N. Jordan , Alexander N. Korotkov

We investigate the open dynamics of a quantum system when it is rapidly repeatedly updated by a quantum channel. Specifically, we analyze when this dynamics can purify the system. We develop a necessary and sufficient condition for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Daniel Grimmer , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We study how the spontaneous relaxation of a qubit affects a continuous quantum non-demolition measurement of the initial state of the qubit. Given some noisy measurement record $\Psi$, we seek an estimate of whether the qubit was initially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jay Gambetta , W. A. Braff , A. Wallraff , S. M. Girvin , R. J. Schoelkopf

Quantum systems can be controlled by other quantum systems in a reversible way, without any information leaking to the outside of the system-controller compound. Such coherent quantum control is deterministic, is less noisy than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Thomas Konrad , Amy Rouillard , Michael Kastner , Hermann Uys

Quantum state purification protocols, which mitigate noise by converting multiple copies of noisy quantum states into fewer copies with a lower noise level, have applications in quantum communication and computation with imperfect devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benchi Zhao , Yu-Ao Chen , Xuanqiang Zhao , Chengkai Zhu , Giulio Chiribella , Xin Wang

Time-continuous quantum measurement allows for the tracking of a quantum system in real time via sequences of short, and individually weak, measurement intervals. Such measurements are necessarily invasive, imparting backaction to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Tathagata Karmakar , Philippe Lewalle , Yipei Zhang , K. Birgitta Whaley

We develop a measurement-based protocol for simultaneously purifying arbitrary logical states in multiple quantum error correcting codes with unit fidelity and finite probability, starting from arbitrary thermal states of each code. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Chandrima B. Pushpan , Tanoy Kanti Konar , Aditi Sen De , Amit Kumar Pal

We have studied theoretically the basic operation of a quantum feedback loop designed to maintain a desired phase of quantum coherent oscillations in a single solid-state qubit. The degree of oscillations synchronization with external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Rusko Ruskov , Alexander N. Korotkov

In this review paper, we survey the main concepts and some of the recent developments in quantum feedback control. For consistency and clarity, essential ideas and notations in the theory of open quantum systems and quantum stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 L. D. Tóth

We demonstrate feedback control of a superconducting transmon qubit using discrete, projective measurement and conditional coherent driving. Feedback realizes a fast and deterministic qubit reset to a target state with 2.4% error averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 D. Ristè , C. C. Bultink , K. W. Lehnert , L. DiCarlo

Quantum state purification, which operates not by identifying and correcting specific errors but by repeatedly projecting multiple noisy copies onto special subspaces, provides a syndrome-free alternative to quantum error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xing-Chen Guo , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang