{
  "id": "1512.04642",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-12-15T04:25:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-12-15T04:25:17.000Z",
  "title": "Superadiabatic Control of Quantum Operations",
  "authors": [
    "Jonathan Vandermause",
    "Chandrasekhar Ramanathan"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Adiabatic pulses are used extensively to enable robust control of quantum operations. We introduce a new approach to adiabatic control that uses the superadiabatic quality or Q-factor as a performance metric to design robust, high fidelity pulses. Our approach permits the systematic design of quantum control schemes to maximize the adabaticity of a unitary operation in a given time interval, given the available control resources. We numerically examine the interplay between adiabaticity, fidelity and robustness of the resulting pulses for the case of single-qubit inversion, and demonstrate the improved robustness of superadiabatic pulses. We introduce a numerical search strategy to implement a broader class of adiabatic operations, including multi-qubit adiabatic uni- taries, and demonstrate the utility of the technique by designing control waveforms that adiabatically implement a two-qubit entangling gate for a model system.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-12-15T04:25:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum operations",
      "superadiabatic control",
      "high fidelity pulses",
      "quantum control schemes",
      "robust control"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}