1.0Microsoft Researchhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/researchMartin Roettelerhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/martinro/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="JMFZSElBzt"><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/combinatorial-approaches-dynamical-decoupling/">Combinatorial Approaches to Dynamical Decoupling</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/combinatorial-approaches-dynamical-decoupling/embed/#?secret=JMFZSElBzt" width="600" height="338" title="“Combinatorial Approaches to Dynamical Decoupling” — Microsoft Research" data-secret="JMFZSElBzt" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> In this chapter we present an introduction to dynamical decoupling techniques. We focus on the construction of efficient schemes for dynamical decoupling and we highlight some combinatorial constructions. Efficiency of decoupling schemes is measured in terms of the number of control operations to be applied to the system. This number should be small, ideally a […]