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arXiv:2602.08526

Intelligent Control of Collisional Architectures for Deterministic Multipartite State Engineering

Duc-Kha Vu, Minh Tam Nguyen, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu, Fatih Ozaydin

quant-phSubmitted Feb 9, 2026• Announced Feb 10, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

Designing scalable, noise-tolerant control protocols for multipartite entanglement is a central challenge for quantum technologies, and it naturally calls for \emph{algorithmic} synthesis of interaction parameters rather than handcrafted gate sequences. Here we introduce an intelligent, constraint-aware control framework for deterministic generation of symmetric Dicke states $|D_n^{(m)}\rangle$ in repeated-interaction (collision-model) architectures. The protocol employs excitation-preserving partial-SWAP collisions between two disjoint qubit registers, mediated by $m$ ancillary ``shuttle'' qubits, and poses Dicke-state preparation as a \emph{closed-loop design} problem: given the target $(n,m)$, automatically infer collision strengths that maximize fidelity under practical constraints. Concretely, we formulate a two-parameter, bound-constrained optimization over intra-register and shuttle--register collision angles and solve it using a multi-start strategy with L-BFGS-B, yielding a reproducible controller prescription (optimized $γ_{\mathrm{in}}$, $γ_{\mathrm{sh}}$, and minimal-round convergence points) for each target. This removes the need for projective measurements and extends collisional entanglement generation beyond the single-excitation (W-state) sector to arbitrary $m$. Crucially, we optimize \emph{within} imperfect collisional dynamics where errors act throughout the sequence, including stochastic interaction dropouts (missing collisions) and standard decoherence channels. Strikingly, across wide error ranges the optimized controller preserves high preparation fidelity; imperfections manifest primarily as a modest increase in the required number of collision rounds. This behavior reflects a tunable competition in which noise suppresses correlations while properly chosen collisions continuously replenish them, allowing the control algorithm to trade time for fidelity.

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We examine a simple scheme to generate genuine multipartite entangled states across disjoint qubit registers. We employ a shuttle qubit that is sequentially coupled, in an energy preserving manner, to the constituents within each register through rounds of interactions. We establish that stable WWW-type entanglement can be generated among all qubits within the registers. Furthermore, we find that the entanglement is sensitive to how the shuttle is treated, showing that a significantly larger degree is achieved by performing projective measurements on it. Finally, we assess the resilience of this entanglement generation protocol to several types of noise and imperfections, showing that it is remarkably robust.
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