Learning Robust and High-Precision Quantum Controls

Abstract: Robust and high-precision quantum control is extremely important but challenging for the functionization of scalable quantum computation. In this paper, we show that this hard problem can be translated to a supervised machine learning task by treating the time-ordered quantum evolution as a layer-ordered neural network (NN). The seeking of robust quantum controls is then equivalent to training a highly {\it generalizable} NN, to which numerous tuning skills matured in machine learning can be transferred. This opens up a door through which a family of robust control algorithms can be developed. We exemplify such potential by introducing the commonly used trick of batch-based optimization, and the resulting stochastic b-GRAPE algorithm is numerically shown to be able to remarkably enhance the control robustness while maintaining high fidelity.