Trotterized Variational Quantum Control for Spin-Chain State Transfer

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Main Authors: Dehaghani, Nahid Binandeh, Wisniewski, Rafal, Aguiar, A. Pedro
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Published: 2025
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author Dehaghani, Nahid Binandeh
Wisniewski, Rafal
Aguiar, A. Pedro
author_facet Dehaghani, Nahid Binandeh
Wisniewski, Rafal
Aguiar, A. Pedro
contents We present a hybrid variational framework for quantum optimal control aimed at high-fidelity state transfer in spin chains. The system dynamics are discretized and compiled into a parameterized circuit, where deterministic two-qubit blocks implement the drift interactions, while trainable on-site RZ rotations encode the control inputs. We study two parameterizations: a compact global scheme with a small number of shared parameters per slice, and a local scheme with site-wise angles. Using a Sequential Least Squares Quadratic Programming (SLSQP) optimization to minimize infidelity, simulations on XXZ spin chains show that both parameterizations can achieve near-unit fidelities in the noiseless regime. Under depolarizing noise, the global scheme provides improved robustness for comparable circuit depth and iteration budgets. The results make explicit an expressivity-stability trade-off and suggest a scalable route to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) compatible control synthesis.
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spellingShingle Trotterized Variational Quantum Control for Spin-Chain State Transfer
Dehaghani, Nahid Binandeh
Wisniewski, Rafal
Aguiar, A. Pedro
Quantum Physics
We present a hybrid variational framework for quantum optimal control aimed at high-fidelity state transfer in spin chains. The system dynamics are discretized and compiled into a parameterized circuit, where deterministic two-qubit blocks implement the drift interactions, while trainable on-site RZ rotations encode the control inputs. We study two parameterizations: a compact global scheme with a small number of shared parameters per slice, and a local scheme with site-wise angles. Using a Sequential Least Squares Quadratic Programming (SLSQP) optimization to minimize infidelity, simulations on XXZ spin chains show that both parameterizations can achieve near-unit fidelities in the noiseless regime. Under depolarizing noise, the global scheme provides improved robustness for comparable circuit depth and iteration budgets. The results make explicit an expressivity-stability trade-off and suggest a scalable route to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) compatible control synthesis.
title Trotterized Variational Quantum Control for Spin-Chain State Transfer
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09684