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most citedDressing the chopped-random-basis optimization: a bandwidth-limited access to the trap-free landscape

137 citations · 778 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Large spin shuttling oscillations enabling high-fidelity single qubit gates

Akshay Menon Pazhedath, Alessandro David, Max Oberländer +4

Semiconductor quantum dots have shown impressive breakthroughs in the last years, with single and two qubit gate fidelities matching other leading platforms and scalability still r…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Exponentiation of Parametric Hamiltonians via Unitary interpolation

Michael Schilling, Francesco Preti, Matthias M. Müller +2

The effort to generate matrix exponentials and associated differentials, required to determine the time evolution of quantum systems, frequently constrains the evaluation of proble…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Analytical solutions for optimal photon absorption into inhomogeneous spin memories

József Zsolt Bernád, Michael Schilling, Yutian Wen +4

We investigate for optimal photon absorption a quantum electrodynamical model of an inhomogeneously-broadened spin ensemble coupled to a single-mode cavity. Solutions to this probl…

quant-ph2023

Analyzing the collective emission of a Rydberg-blockaded single-photon source based on an ensemble of thermal atoms

Jan A. P. Reuter, Max Mäusezahl, Felix Moumtsilis +4

An ensemble of Rubidum atoms can be excited with lasers such that it evolves into an entangled state with just one collective excitation within the Rydberg blockade radius. The dec…

quant-ph2022★ 39 cited

QuOCS: The Quantum Optimal Control Suite

Marco Rossignolo, Thomas Reisser, Alastair Marshall +9

Quantum optimal control includes the family of pulse-shaping algorithms that aim to unlock the full potential of a variety of quantum technologies. Our Quantum Optimal Control Suit…

quant-ph2021★ 16 cited

Macroscopic Hyperpolarization Enhanced with Quantum Optimal Control

Alastair Marshall, Thomas Reisser, Phila Rembold +13

Hyperpolarization of nuclear spins enhances nuclear magnetic resonance signals, which play a key role for imaging and spectroscopy in the natural and life sciences. This signal amp…

quant-ph2021★ 23 cited

Robust Magnetometry with Single NV Centers via Two-step Optimization

Nimba Oshnik, Phila Rembold, Tommaso Calarco +3

Shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers are promising candidates for high-precision sensing applications; these defects, when positioned a few nanometers below the surface, provide a…

quant-ph2021★ 114 cited

One decade of quantum optimal control in the chopped random basis

Matthias M. Müller, Ressa S. Said, Fedor Jelezko +2

The Chopped RAndom Basis (CRAB) ansatz for quantum optimal control has been proven to be a versatile tool to enable quantum technology applications, quantum computing, quantum simu…

quant-ph2020★ 9 cited

Information flow and error scaling for fully-quantum control

Stefano Gherardini, Matthias M. Müller, Simone Montangero +2

The optimally designed control of quantum systems is playing an increasingly important role to engineer novel and more efficient quantum technologies. Here, in the scenario represe…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Information Theoretical Limits for Quantum Optimal Control Solutions: Error Scaling of Noisy Channels

Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Tommaso Calarco +2

Accurate manipulations of an open quantum system require a deep knowledge of its controllability properties and the information content of the implemented control fields. By using…

quant-ph2018★ 7 cited

Advances in sequential measurement and control of open quantum systems

Stefano Gherardini, Andrea Smirne, Matthias M. Müller +1

Novel concepts, perspectives and challenges in measuring and controlling an open quantum system via sequential schemes are shown. We discuss how similar protocols, relying both on…

quant-ph2018★ 26 cited

Noise-robust quantum sensing via optimal multi-probe spectroscopy

Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Filippo Caruso

The dynamics of quantum systems are unavoidably influenced by their environment and in turn observing a quantum system (probe) can allow one to measure its environment: Measurement…

quant-ph2017★ 21 cited

Reconstructing quantum entropy production to probe irreversibility and correlations

Stefano Gherardini, Matthias M. Müller, Andrea Trombettoni +2

One of the major goals of quantum thermodynamics is the characterization of irreversibility and its consequences in quantum processes. Here, we discuss how entropy production provi…

quant-ph2016★ 21 cited

Stochastic quantum Zeno-based detection of noise correlations

Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Filippo Caruso

A system under constant observation is practically freezed to the measurement subspace. If the system driving is a random classical field, the survival probability of the system in…

quant-ph2016★ 48 cited

Quantum Zeno Dynamics through stochastic protocols

Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Filippo Caruso

Quantum Zeno Dynamics is the phenomenon that the observation or strong driving of a quantum system can freeze its dynamics to a subspace, effectively truncating the Hilbert space o…

quant-ph2016★ 21 cited

Fisher information from stochastic quantum measurements

Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Augusto Smerzi +1

The unavoidable interaction between a quantum system and the external noisy environment can be mimicked by a sequence of stochastic measurements whose outcomes are neglected. Here…

quant-ph2015★ 137 cited

Dressing the chopped-random-basis optimization: a bandwidth-limited access to the trap-free landscape

Niklas Rach, Matthias M. Müller, Tommaso Calarco +1

In quantum optimal control theory the success of an optimization algorithm is highly influenced by how the figure of merit to be optimized behaves as a function of the control fiel…

quant-ph2015★ 5 cited

Optimal Phonon-to-Spin Mapping in a system of a trapped ion

Matthias M. Müller, Ulrich G. Poschinger, Tommaso Calarco +2

We propose a protocol for measurement of the phonon number distribution of a harmonic oscillator based on selective mapping to a discrete spin-1/2 degree of freedom. We consider a…

quant-ph2015★ 4 cited

Quantum optimal control within the rotating wave approximation

Maximilian Keck, Matthias M. Müller, Tommaso Calarco +1

We study the interplay between rotating wave approximation and optimal control. In particular, we show that for a wide class of optimal control problems one can choose the control…

quant-ph2014★ 49 cited

Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. II. Application

Michael H. Goerz, Giulia Gualdi, Daniel M. Reich +7

The difficulty of an optimization task in quantum information science depends on the proper mathematical expression of the physical target. Here we demonstrate the power of optimiz…

quant-ph2014★ 60 cited

Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler: I. Functionals

Paul Watts, Jiří Vala, Matthias M. Müller +5

Optimal control theory is a powerful tool for improving figures of merit in quantum information tasks. Finding the solution to any optimal control problem via numerical optimizatio…

quant-ph2012★ 47 cited

Room temperature Rydberg Single Photon Source

M. M. Müller, A. Kölle, R. Löw +3

We present an optimal protocol to implement a room temperature Rydberg single photon source within an experimental setup based on micro cells filled with thermal vapor. The optimiz…

quant-ph2011★ 81 cited

Towards an experimentally feasible controlled-phase gate on two blockaded Rydberg atoms

Matthias M. Müller, Michael Murphy, Simone Montangero +3

We investigate the implementation of a controlled-Z gate on a pair of Rydberg atoms in spatially separated dipole traps where the joint excitation of both atoms into the Rydberg le…

quant-ph2011★ 33 cited

Prospects for fast Rydberg gates on an atom chip

Matthias M. Müller, Harald R. Haakh, Tommaso Calarco +2

Atom chips are a promising candidate for a scalable architecture for quantum information processing provided a universal set of gates can be implemented with high fidelity. The dif…