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 …

Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to revolutionize computing, measurements, and
communications. This has stimulated the research in different areas of physics to engineer …

Quantum adiabatic processes—that keep constant the populations in the instantaneous
eigenbasis of a time-dependent Hamiltonian—are very useful to prepare and manipulate …

We generate spin squeezed ground states in an atomic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate
tuned near the quantum-critical point separating the different spin phases of the interacting …

We use the dynamical algebra of a quantum system and its dynamical invariants to inverse
engineer feasible Hamiltonians for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are …

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 …

Trapping ultracold atoms in optical lattices enabled numerous breakthroughs uniting several
disciplines. Coupling these systems to quantized light leads to a plethora of new …

A protocol is proposed for the rapid coherent loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into the
ground state of an optical lattice, without residual excitation associated with the breakdown …

Quantum metrology exploits quantum resources and strategies to improve measurement
precision of unknown parameters. One crucial issue is how to prepare a quantum entangled …

We investigate a time-efficient and robust preparation of spin-squeezed states—a class of
states of interest for quantum enhanced metrology—in internal bosonic Josephson junctions …