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 …

Optimal control theory is a powerful mathematical tool, which has known a rapid
development since the 1950s, mainly for engineering applications. More recently, it has …

Quantum architecture search (QAS) is the process of automating architecture engineering of
quantum circuits. It has been desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform …

The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the development of quantum
technologies. Although fault-tolerant devices likely remain years away, the noisy …

Quantum annealing (QA) and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) are
two special cases of the following control problem: apply a combination of two Hamiltonians …

We identify time-optimal laser pulses to implement the controlled-Z gate and its three qubit
generalization, the C $ _2 $ Z gate, for Rydberg atoms in the blockade regime. Pulses are …

Optimization is one of the key applications of quantum computing where a quantum
speedup has been an eagerly anticipated outcome. A promising approach to optimization …

Quantum control aims to manipulate quantum systems toward specific quantum states or
desired operations. Designing highly accurate and effective control steps is vitally important …

Analog quantum algorithms are formulated in terms of Hamiltonians rather than unitary
gates and include quantum adiabatic computing, quantum annealing, and the quantum …

Quantum simulation on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices is severely limited by
short qubit coherence times. A variational pulse-shaping algorithm known as ctrl-VQE was …