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 …

Learning quantum systems

V Gebhart, R Santagati, AA Gentile, EM Gauger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The future development of quantum technologies relies on creating and manipulating
quantum systems of increasing complexity, with key applications in computation, simulation …

Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even

VV Sivak, A Eickbusch, B Royer, S Singh, I Tsioutsios… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The ambition of harnessing the quantum for computation is at odds with the fundamental
phenomenon of decoherence. The purpose of quantum error correction (QEC) is to …

Fast universal control of an oscillator with weak dispersive coupling to a qubit

A Eickbusch, V Sivak, AZ Ding, SS Elder, SR Jha… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Full manipulation of a quantum system requires controlled evolution generated by nonlinear
interactions, which is coherent when the rate of nonlinearity is large compared with the rate …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning for quantum technologies

M Krenn, J Landgraf, T Foesel, F Marquardt - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
In recent years the dramatic progress in machine learning has begun to impact many areas
of science and technology significantly. In the present perspective article, we explore how …

High-fidelity, frequency-flexible two-qubit fluxonium gates with a transmon coupler

L Ding, M Hays, Y Sung, B Kannan, J An, A Di Paolo… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates
mediated by transmon couplers (FTF, for fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium). Relative to …

Model-free quantum control with reinforcement learning

VV Sivak, A Eickbusch, H Liu, B Royer, I Tsioutsios… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Model bias is an inherent limitation of the current dominant approach to optimal quantum
control, which relies on a system simulation for optimization of control policies. To overcome …

Pulse-efficient circuit transpilation for quantum applications on cross-resonance-based hardware

N Earnest, C Tornow, DJ Egger - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We show a pulse-efficient circuit transpilation framework for noisy quantum hardware. This is
achieved by scaling cross-resonance pulses and exposing each pulse as a gate to remove …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning for quantum multiparameter estimation

V Cimini, M Valeri, E Polino, S Piacentini… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Estimation of physical quantities is at the core of most scientific research, and the use of
quantum devices promises to enhance its performances. In real scenarios, it is fundamental …

Realizing a deep reinforcement learning agent for real-time quantum feedback

K Reuer, J Landgraf, T Fösel, J O'Sullivan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Realizing the full potential of quantum technologies requires precise real-time control on
time scales much shorter than the coherence time. Model-free reinforcement learning …