Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

In this paper, we propose a robust and high-fidelity scheme to construct a nondestructive
Rydberg parity meter by optimized inverse engineering, after which we can know the parity …

Complex and even non-monotonic responses to external control can be found in many
thermodynamic systems. In such systems, nonequilibrium shortcuts can rapidly drive the …

A systematic approach to design robust control protocols against the influence of different
types of noise is introduced. We present control schemes which protect the decay of the …

Shortcut to adiabatic passage (STAP), initially proposed to accelerate adiabatic quantum-
state transfer, has been widely explored and applied in quantum optics and integrated …

Fast and robust quantum control protocols are often based on an idealized approximate
description of the relevant quantum system. While this may provide a performance that is …

We consider a pair of coupled spins with Ising interaction in the z direction and study the
problem of generating efficiently the triplet Bell state. We initially analyze the transitionless …

Two-dimensional (2D) systems with time-dependent controls admit a quadratic Hamiltonian
modeling near potential minima. Independent, dynamical normal modes facilitate inverse …

We apply reverse engineering to find electromagnetic pulses that allow for the control of
populations in quantum systems under dephasing and thermal noises. In particular, we …