Shortcuts to adiabaticity: Concepts, methods, and applications

D Guéry-Odelin, A Ruschhaupt, A Kiely… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
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 speed limits: from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control

S Deffner, S Campbell - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

NM Myers, O Abah, S Deffner - AVS quantum science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

Adaptive quantum approximate optimization algorithm for solving combinatorial problems on a quantum computer

L Zhu, HL Tang, GS Barron, FA Calderon-Vargas… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid variational quantum-
classical algorithm that solves combinatorial optimization problems. While there is evidence …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity in digitized adiabatic quantum computing

NN Hegade, K Paul, Y Ding, M Sanz… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Shortcuts to adiabaticity are well-known methods for controlling the quantum dynamics
beyond the adiabatic criteria, where counterdiabatic (CD) driving provides a promising …

Floquet-engineering counterdiabatic protocols in quantum many-body systems

PW Claeys, M Pandey, D Sels, A Polkovnikov - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Counterdiabatic (CD) driving presents a way of generating adiabatic dynamics at an
arbitrary pace, where excitations due to nonadiabaticity are exactly compensated by adding …

Trade-off between speed and cost in shortcuts to adiabaticity

S Campbell, S Deffner - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum
physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when …

Nonreciprocal enhancement of macroscopic entanglement with noise tolerance

ZH Huang, YF Jiao, LL Yan, DY Wang, SL Su, H **g - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The entanglement of different macroscopic objects can provide crucial resources for various
quantum applications and quantum-enabled devices. The generation, manipulation, and …

Coherence effects in the performance of the quantum Otto heat engine

PA Camati, JFG Santos, RM Serra - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
The working substance fueling a quantum heat engine may contain coherence in its energy
basis, depending on the dynamics of the engine cycle. In some models of quantum Otto heat …

Comparison of heavy-ion transport simulations: Mean-field dynamics in a box

M Colonna, YX Zhang, YJ Wang, D Cozma… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Within the transport model evaluation project (TMEP) of simulations for heavy-ion collisions,
the mean-field response is examined here. Specifically, zero-sound propagation is …