arXiv:1401.5047 · Physical Review Letters

Information Theoretical Analysis of Quantum Optimal Control

Seth Lloyd, Simone Montangero

Published Jul 2, 2014• 114 citations

Abstract

We study the relations between classical information and the feasibility of accurate manipulation of quantum system dynamics. We show that if an efficient classical representation of the dynamics exists, optimal control problems on many-body quantum systems can be solved efficiently with finite precision. In particular, one-dimensional slightly entangled dynamics can be efficiently controlled. We provide a bound for the minimal time necessary to perform the optimal process given the bandwidth of the control pulse, which is the continuous version of the Solovay-Kitaev theorem. Finally, we quantify how noise affects the presented results.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.010502

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