  Coherent control of complex many-body systems is critical to the development
of useful quantum devices. Fast perfect state transfer can be exactly achieved
through additional counterdiabatic fields. We show that the additional
energetic overhead associated with implementing counterdiabatic driving can be
reduced while still maintaining high target state fidelities. This is achieved
by implementing control fields only during the impulse regime, as identified by
the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. We demonstrate that this strategy successfully
suppresses most of the defects that would be generated due to the finite
driving time for two paradigmatic settings: the Landau-Zener model and the
Ising model. For the latter case, we also investigate the performance of our
impulse control scheme when restricted to more experimentally realistic local
control fields.
