Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in physics, chemistry, and beyond

NV Vitanov, AA Rangelov, BW Shore… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

[HTML][HTML] A tutorial on optimal control and reinforcement learning methods for quantum technologies

L Giannelli, S Sgroi, J Brown, GS Paraoanu… - Physics Letters A, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Quantum Optimal Control is an established field of research which is necessary for
the development of Quantum Technologies. In recent years, Machine Learning techniques …

Mechanism of decoherence-free coupling between giant atoms

A Carollo, D Cilluffo, F Ciccarello - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Giant atoms are a new paradigm of quantum optics going beyond the usual local coupling.
Building on this, a new type of decoherence-free (DF) many-body Hamiltonians was shown …

Reinforcement learning-enhanced protocols for coherent population-transfer in three-level quantum systems

J Brown, P Sgroi, L Giannelli, GS Paraoanu… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We deploy a combination of reinforcement learning-based approaches and more traditional
optimization techniques to identify optimal protocols for population transfer in a multi-level …

Detecting virtual photons in ultrastrongly coupled superconducting quantum circuits

L Giannelli, E Paladino, M Grajcar, GS Paraoanu… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Light-matter interaction and understanding the fundamental physics behind is essential for
emerging quantum technologies. Solid-state devices may explore new regimes where …

Microwave photon Fock state generation by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

SP Premaratne, FC Wellstood, BS Palmer - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
The deterministic generation of non-classical states of light, including squeezed states, Fock
states and Bell states, plays an important role in quantum information processing and …

High-fidelity quantum gates via optimizing short pulse sequences in three-level systems

C Zhang, Y Liu, J Song, Y Xia, ZC Shi - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a robust and high-fidelity scheme for realizing universal quantum gates by
optimizing short pulse sequences in a three-level system. To alleviate the sensitivity to the …

Performance of superadiabatic stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in the presence of dissipation and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dephasing

K Blekos, D Stefanatos, E Paspalakis - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
In this paper we evaluate the performance of two superadiabatic stimulated Raman
adiabatic passage (STIRAP) protocols derived from Gaussian and sin-cos pulses, under …

Non-Markovian decoherence dynamics in nonequilibrium environments

X Cai, Y Zheng - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We theoretically investigate the non-Markovian dynamical decoherence of a quantum
system coupled to nonequilibrium environments with nonstationary statistical properties. We …