Author(s): Mingrui Jing, Mengbo Guo, Lin Zhu, Hongshun Yao, and Xin Wang Programmability is a unifying paradigm for enacting families of quantum transformations via fixed processors and program states, with a fundamental role and broad impact in quantum computation and control. While there has been a shift from viewing open systems solely as a source of error to treating… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040403] Published Thu Jul 23, 2026