# Focus on Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

## TL;DR

Shortcuts to Adiabaticity (STA) are techniques that enable fast control of classical and quantum systems, bypassing slow adiabatic processes, with recent progress spanning theory and experiments across various platforms.

## Contribution

This paper reviews recent theoretical and experimental developments in STA, highlighting advances and open problems in the field.

## Key findings

- Significant experimental demonstrations of STA across platforms
- Theoretical frameworks advancing understanding of STA
- Identification of open problems and future directions

## Abstract

Shortcuts to Adiabaticity (STA) constitute driving schemes that provide an alternative to adiabatic protocols to control and guide the dynamics of classical and quantum systems without the requirement of slow driving. Research on STA advances swiftly with theoretical progress being accompanied by experiments on a wide variety of platforms. We summarize recent developments emphasizing advances reported in this focus issue while providing an outlook with open problems and prospects for future research.