  The operation of near-term quantum technologies requires the development of
feasible, implementable, and robust strategies of controlling complex many body
systems. To this end, a variety of techniques, so-called "shortcuts to
adiabaticty", have been developed. Many of these shortcuts have already been
demonstrated to be powerful and implementable in distinct scenarios. Yet, it is
often also desirable to have additional, approximate strategies available, that
are applicable to a large class of systems. In this work, we hence take
inspiration from thermodynamics and propose to focus on the macrostate, rather
than the microstate. Adiabatic dynamics can then be identified as such
processes that preserve the equation of state, and systematic corrections are
obtained from adiabatic perturbation theory. We demonstrate this approach by
improving upon fast quasiadiabatic driving, and by applying the method to the
quantum Ising chain in the transverse field.
