Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application)
Coffee and Control1 Nov 2025

Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application)

In this month’s episode got to talk to Dr Carrie Weidner allabout controlling quantum systems! I find out what the control objective is forthese systems, how to characterise their robustness (or at least attempt to),how easy it is to apply this to practical systems, and a lot more besides.

You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aixaD-P6R6jFDjS4Zp6nJ2n5ZHPfbWKYCue2v2_ZCVU/edit?usp=sharing

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References

PhD thesis: https://jila.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/2019-03/Weidner_PhD_final.pdf

Sabine Hauert episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65iwMh2NstKqXvfATpzfm4

Sabine episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12t_8k9LRckeGB--YVDS0XWnOeLX8sQcY3njA7jBCj1o/edit?usp=sharing

Carrie’s quantum control survey: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00294

Sophie Shermer: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/s.schirmer/

Frank Langbein: https://langbein.org/
Edmond Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/

Sean O’Neil: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=250lKHEAAAAJ&hl=en

Phila Rembold: https://qusco-itn.eu/portfolio_page/phila-rembold-2/
Bases in quantum control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20889

Nelder-Mead optmisation: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Nelder-Mead_algorithm#Advantages_and_disadvantageshttps://brandewinder.com/2022/03/31/breaking-down-Nelder-Mead/

Ronnie Kosloff: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1211067/prof-dr-ronnie-kosloff

Belavkin-Carmichael quantum filter: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510028

Luenburg filter papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06454

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6426181

Non-Markovian systems papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073023

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09637

Christiane Koch: https://atominnen.at/empower/interviews/382-christiane-koch

Open quantum systems paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/28/21/213001

Carrie’s mu analysis paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12385

Randa Herzallah: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/herzallah/

Paper on quantum optimal control: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207179.2024.2342939

Quantum thermodynamics paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.012139

Irtaza Khalid: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/khalidmi

Robustness-infidelity metric paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.032606

Time-domain log-sensitivity paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15783

Unifying log-sensitivity and RIM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09518

Robust quantum control papers:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05372

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13691

Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d

Jacob Sherson: https://jacobsherson.com/

David DiVincenzo: https://qutech.nl/person/david-divincenzo/

Enrico Fermi: https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/greatinventors/enricofermi/index.html

Physical review letters paper: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.263201

Point spread modification paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05341

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