Driving rapidly while remaining in control: classical shortcuts from Hamiltonian to stochastic dynamics

D Guéry-Odelin, C Jarzynski, CA Plata… - Reports on Progress …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

A space-based quantum gas laboratory at picokelvin energy scales

N Gaaloul, M Meister, R Corgier, A Pichery… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Ultracold quantum gases are ideal sources for high-precision space-borne sensing as
proposed for Earth observation, relativistic geodesy and tests of fundamental physical laws …

Closed-loop optimization of fast trapped-ion shuttling with sub-quanta excitation

JD Sterk, H Coakley, J Goldberg, V Hietala… - npj Quantum …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Shuttling ions at high speed and with low motional excitation is essential for realizing fast
and high-fidelity algorithms in many trapped-ion-based quantum computing architectures …

Single-atom transport in optical conveyor belts: Enhanced shortcuts-to-adiabaticity approach

SH Hauck, G Alber, VM Stojanović - Physical Review A, 2021‏ - APS
Fast and nearly lossless atomic transport, enabled by moving the confining trap, is a
prerequisite for many quantum-technology applications. While theoretical studies of this …

Robust control of linear systems and shortcut to adiabaticity based on superoscillations

Q Zhang, X Chen, D Guéry-Odelin - Physical Review Applied, 2022‏ - APS
With the advent of quantum technologies, control issues are becoming increasingly
important. In this paper, we address control in phase space under a global constraint …

Bayesian optimization for state engineering of quantum gases

G Müller, VJ Martínez-Lahuerta, I Sekulic… - Quantum Science …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
State engineering of quantum objects is a central requirement for precision sensing and
quantum computing implementations. When the quantum dynamics can be described by …

Optimal ion shuttling for a noisy trap

XJ Lu, JG Muga - Europhysics Letters, 2025‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We find continuous optimal trap trajectories to shuttle one ion with minimal excitation, when
the trap spring constant is affected by white noise. The Euler-Lagrange method gives a …

Robustness of enhanced shortcuts to adiabaticity in lattice transport

C Whitty, A Kiely, A Ruschhaupt - Physical Review A, 2022‏ - APS
Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are a collection of quantum control techniques that achieve
high fidelity outside of the adiabatic regime. Recently an extension to shortcuts to …

Memory-optimised Cubic Splines for High-fidelity Quantum Operations

JO Ernst, J Snoeijs, M Peaks, J Wolf - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.08283, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Radio-frequency pulses are widespread for the control of quantum bits and the execution of
operations in quantum computers. The ability to tune key pulse parameters such as time …

Fast ion shuttling which is robust versus oscillatory perturbations

H Espinós, J Echanobe, XJ Lu… - … Transactions of the …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Shuttling protocols designed by shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques may suffer from
perturbations and imperfect implementations. We study the motional excitation of a single …