Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

Theory of overparametrization in quantum neural networks

M Larocca, N Ju, D García-Martín, PJ Coles… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
The prospect of achieving quantum advantage with quantum neural networks (QNNs) is
exciting. Understanding how QNN properties (for example, the number of parameters M) …

Diagnosing barren plateaus with tools from quantum optimal control

M Larocca, P Czarnik, K Sharma, G Muraleedharan… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have received considerable attention due
to their potential for achieving near-term quantum advantage. However, more work is …

Reinforcement learning for autonomous preparation of floquet-engineered states: Inverting the quantum kapitza oscillator

M Bukov - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
I demonstrate the potential of reinforcement learning (RL) to prepare quantum states of
strongly periodically driven nonlinear single-particle models. The ability of Q-learning to …

Quantum control landscape for ultrafast generation of single-qubit phase shift quantum gates

BO Volkov, OV Morzhin… - Journal of Physics A …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Mathematical analysis of quantum control landscapes, which aims to prove either absence
or existence of traps for quantum control objective functionals, is an important topic in …

Quantum imaginary time evolution steered by reinforcement learning

C Cao, Z An, SY Hou, DL Zhou, B Zeng - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The quantum imaginary time evolution is a powerful algorithm for preparing the ground and
thermal states on near-term quantum devices. However, algorithmic errors induced by …

Quantum gate generation in two-level open quantum systems by coherent and incoherent photons found with gradient search

VN Petruhanov, AN Pechen - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, we consider an environment formed by incoherent photons as a resource for
controlling open quantum systems via an incoherent control. We exploit a coherent control in …

Control landscapes for high-fidelity generation of C-NOT and C-PHASE gates with coherent and environmental driving

AN Pechen, VN Petruhanov, OV Morzhin… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
High-fidelity generation of two-qubit gates is important for quantum computation, since such
gates are components of popular universal sets of gates. Here, we consider the problem of …

Optimizing performance of quantum operations with non-Markovian decoherence: the tortoise or the hare?

EP Butler, GE Fux, C Ortega-Taberner, BW Lovett… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The interaction between a quantum system and its environment limits our ability to control it
and perform quantum operations on it. We present an efficient method to find optimal …

Collective effects and quantum coherence in dissipative charging of quantum batteries

F Mayo, AJ Roncaglia - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We consider the dissipative charging process of quantum batteries in terms of a collisional
model, where the batteries are coupled to a heat bath using nonenergy preserving …