Burgarth group

The key question of quantum control is how we can change the dynamics of a quantum system actively by changing parameters to achieve certain targets. This is timely in the context of quantum computation, where the targets typically describe quantum gates. Our main research looks at quantum control to overcome noise in quantum computing. This can be noise induced by using the wrong model for the quantum system in the first place, or noise induced by an external quantum system. For the first type of noise, my group is developing more accurate models for systems in the presence of driving, as well as adaptive control strategies and system identification. For the second type our key interest is in developing hardware-near error avoidance schemes, such as dynamical decoupling.  We are interested both in the underlying mathematical structure of control and in practical control pulse engineering using numerical algorithms.

Dr Christian Arenz (now Postdoc at Princeton)
Dr Alexander Pitchford (now Postdoc at Aberystwyth University)
Dr Benjamin Dive (now Postdoc at Vienna University)

Dr Jukka Kiukas (now Lecturer at Aberystwyth University)