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Quantum Control

Edited by: Prof Matthew James, Prof Gerard Milburn, Prof John Gough

In conjunction with the Ninth International Workshop on Principles and Applications for Control of Quantum Systems, EPJ Quantum Technology would like to call for papers to be published in a Thematic Series on Quantum Control. Quantum Control has already led to significant improvements in technologies ranging from magnetic resonance to prototype quantum computers, from quantum high-precision sensors to quantum logic clocks, from single atom transistors to quantum noise suppression in gravitation wave detectors. The field is experiencing rapid development driven by the necessity of practical engineered quantum systems. This series will highlight how quantum control engineering is becoming an essential framework behind the implementation of Quantum Technology, and focus on its role in problems of design, stabilization, error-correction, noise reduction and filtering, and combating decoherence.


  1. The emergence of coherent quantum feedback control (CQFC) as a new paradigm for precise manipulation of dynamics of complex quantum systems has led to the development of efficient theoretical modeling and simu...

    Authors: Mohan Sarovar, Daniel BS Soh, Jonathan Cox, Constantin Brif, Christopher T DeRose, Ryan Camacho and Paul Davids
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2016 3:14
  2. Quantum control could be implemented by varying the system Hamiltonian. According to adiabatic theorem, a slowly changing Hamiltonian can approximately keep the system at the ground state during the evolution ...

    Authors: Yu Pan, Zibo Miao, Nina H Amini, Valery Ugrinovskii and Matthew R James
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:24
  3. Optimal control theory is a powerful tool for solving control problems in quantum mechanics, ranging from the control of chemical reactions to the implementation of gates in a quantum computer. Gradient-based ...

    Authors: Michael H Goerz, K Birgitta Whaley and Christiane P Koch
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:21
  4. We develop a quantum learning scheme for binary discrimination of coherent states of light. This is a problem of technological relevance for the reading of information stored in a digital memory. In our settin...

    Authors: Gael Sentís, Mădălin Guţă and Gerardo Adesso
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:17
  5. The purpose of this paper is to study the problem of generalizing the Belavkin-Kalman filter to the case where the classical measurement signal is replaced by a fully quantum non-commutative output signal. We ...

    Authors: Nina H Amini, Zibo Miao, Yu Pan, Matthew R James and Hideo Mabuchi
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:14
  6. Quantum parameter estimation, the ability to precisely obtain a classical value in a quantum system, is very important to many key quantum technologies. Many of these technologies rely on an optical probe, eit...

    Authors: Trevor A Wheatley, Mankei Tsang, Ian R Petersen and Elanor H Huntington
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:13
  7. We study a novel class of open-loop control protocols constructed to perform arbitrary nontrivial single-qubit logic operations robust against time-dependent non-Markovian noise. Amplitude and phase modulation...

    Authors: Harrison Ball and Michael J Biercuk
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:11
  8. We present nonlinear photonic circuit models for constructing programmable linear transformations and use these to realize a coherent perceptron, i.e., an all-optical linear classifier capable of learning the ...

    Authors: Nikolas Tezak and Hideo Mabuchi
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:10
  9. Using the Trotter-Kato theorem we prove the convergence of the unitary dynamics generated by an increasingly singular Hamiltonian in the case of a single field coupling. The limit dynamics is a quantum stochas...

    Authors: Luc Bouten, Rolf Gohm, John Gough and Hendra Nurdin
    Citation: EPJ Quantum Technology 2015 2:9