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Sensitivity Bounds for Quantum Control and Time-Domain Performance Guarantees

Year: 2023
Type: preprint
Abstract: Control of quantum systems via time-varying external fields optimized to maximize a fidelity measure at a given time is a mainstay in modern quantum control. However, save for specific systems, current analysis techniques for such quantum controllers provide no analytical robustness guarantees. In this letter we provide analytical bounds on the differential sensitivity of the gate fidelity error to structured uncertainties for a closed quantum system controlled by piecewise-constant, optimal control fields. We additionally determine those uncertainty structures that result in this worst-case maximal sensitivity. We then use these differential sensitivity bounds to provide conditions that guarantee performance, quantified by the fidelity error, in the face of parameter uncertainty.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4387995085
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