Optimal Control at the Quantum Speed Limit

T. Caneva, Michael Murphy, Tommaso Calarco, Rosario Fazio, Simone Montangero, Vittorio Giovannetti, Giuseppe E. Santoro

Physical Review Letters · 2009 · 517 citations · 23 references

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Optimal control theory is a promising candidate for a drastic improvement of the performance of quantum information tasks. We explore its ultimate limit in paradigmatic cases, and demonstrate that it coincides with the maximum speed limit allowed by quantum evolution.

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