Quantum annealing is a computing paradigm that has the ambitious goal of efficiently
solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems of practical importance. However …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity provide fast protocols for quantum state preparation in which the
use of auxiliary counterdiabatic controls circumvents the requirement of slow driving in …

We propose to optimally control the harmonic potential of a levitated nanoparticle to
quantum delocalize its center-of-mass motional state to a length scale orders of magnitude …

Counterdiabatic (CD) driving presents a way of generating adiabatic dynamics at an
arbitrary pace, where excitations due to nonadiabaticity are exactly compensated by adding …

We develop new pulse schemes to significantly speed up adiabatic state transfer protocols.
Our general strategy involves adding corrections to an initial control Hamiltonian that …

In the last years, a number of theoretical and numerical tools have been developed by a
thriving community formed by people coming from different backgrounds—condensed …

Adiabatic processes are ubiquitous in physics and engineering. A drawback of such
processes is that they tend to be slow, either in time–for atomic systems, for example–or in …

Markovian reservoir engineering, in which time evolution of a quantum system is governed
by a Lindblad master equation, is a powerful technique in studies of quantum phases of …

According to the laws of thermodynamics, no heat engine can beat the efficiency of a Carnot
cycle. This efficiency traditionally comes with vanishing power output and practical designs …

We present a general method to efficiently design optimal control sequences for non-
Markovian open quantum systems, and illustrate it by optimizing the shape of a laser pulse …