Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

CP Koch, U Boscain, T Calarco, G Dirr… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - epjqt.epj.org
Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external
fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way …

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 …

Training Schrödinger's cat: Quantum optimal control: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

SJ Glaser, U Boscain, T Calarco, CP Koch… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering
it provides a systematic way for driving a dynamical system from a given initial state into a …

[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 …

[BOOK][B] The Jaynes–Cummings model and its descendants: modern research directions

J Larson, T Mavrogordatos - 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Jaynes–Cummings Model (JCM) has recently been receiving increased attention as
one of the simplest, yet intricately nonlinear, models of quantum physics. Emphasising the …

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 …

[BOOK][B] Quantum Thermodynamics: An introduction to the thermodynamics of quantum information

S Deffner, S Campbell - 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This book introduces the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, with a focus on its
relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum computers and next …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity for the quantum Rabi model: Efficient generation of giant entangled cat states via parametric amplification

YH Chen, W Qin, X Wang, A Miranowicz, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We propose a method for the fast generation of nonclassical ground states of the Rabi
model in the ultrastrong and deep-strong coupling regimes via the shortcuts-to-adiabatic …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity by counterdiabatic driving

A Del Campo - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
The evolution of a system induced by counterdiabatic driving mimics the adiabatic dynamics
without the requirement of slow driving. Engineering it involves diagonalizing the …

The quantum harmonic Otto cycle

R Kosloff, Y Rezek - Entropy, 2017 - mdpi.com
The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines
and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile …