  Quantum state transfer (QST) and entangled state generation (ESG) are
important building blocks for modern quantum information processing. To achieve
these tasks, convention wisdom is to consult the quantum adiabatic evolution,
which is time-consuming, and thus is of low fidelity. Here, using the shortcut
to adiabaticity technique, we propose a general method to realize high-fidelity
fast QST and ESG in a cavity-coupled many qubits system via its dark pathways,
which can be further designed for high-fidelity quantum tasks with different
optimization purpose. Specifically, with a proper dark pathway, QST and ESG
between any two qubits can be achieved without decoupling the others, which
simplifies experimental demonstrations. Meanwhile, ESG among all qubits can
also be realized in a single step. In addition, our scheme can be implemented
in many quantum systems, and we illustrate its implementation on
superconducting quantum circuits. Therefore, we propose a powerful strategy for
selective quantum manipulation, which is promising in cavity coupled quantum
systems and could find many convenient applications in quantum information
processing.
