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 …

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 …

Quantum adiabatic processes—that keep constant the populations in the instantaneous
eigenbasis of a time-dependent Hamiltonian—are very useful to prepare and manipulate …

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 …

A shortcut to adiabaticity is a driving protocol that reproduces in a short time the same final
state that would result from an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. A powerful technique to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The “fast-forward” approach by Masuda and Nakamura generates driving potentials to
accelerate slow quantum adiabatic dynamics. First we present a streamlined version of the …