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 …

We review the status of cooling techniques aimed at achieving the deepest quantum
degeneracy for atomic Fermi gases. We first discuss some physics motivations, providing a …

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 …

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 examine the stability versus different types of perturbations of recently proposed
shortcuts to adiabaticity to speed up the population inversion of a two-level quantum system …

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 …

We design, by invariant-based inverse engineering, resonant laser pulses to perform fast
population transfers in three-level systems. The laser intensities to improve the fidelity or to …

The finite-time operation of a quantum heat engine that uses a single particle as a working
medium generally increases the output power at the expense of inducing friction that lowers …

We propose an efficient method to construct shortcuts to adiabaticity through designing a
substitute Hamiltonian to try to avoid the defect in which the speed-up protocols' Hamiltonian …

Under a general framework, shortcuts to adiabatic processes are shown to be possible in
classical systems. We study the distribution function of the work done on a small system …