Qubit Dynamics and Quantum Control

The students will learn fundamental methods and approaches to manipulating and controlling qubits (in the absence and in the presence of noise), which are used in virtually all existing architectures for quantum information processing. The students will study

* fundamental notions used for description and analysis of the qubit dynamics

* typical approaches to manipulation and control of most qubits, from superconducting qubits to trapped ions and atoms;

* basic concepts, such as rotating-frame description of qubits, Rabi driving, decoherence by noise, and decoherence suppression via dynamical decoupling.

* basic regimes of qubit dynamics and their theoretical description, basic approaches to description and analysis of the qubit decoherence by noise and by environment, as well as basic approaches to qubit manipulation and decoherence suppression.