Feedback Stabilization and Tracking for Heat Equations Using Thermo-Plasmonic Nanoparticles as Actuators
Abstract
We propose a feedback strategy to track prescribed heat profiles using plasmonic nanoparticles as actuators. Starting from a thermo--plasmonic Maxwell--heat model, we use a time-domain discrete effective description in which the generated heat is approximated by a superposition of heat kernels centered at particle locations with amplitudes governed by a coupled Volterra system. We recast this dynamics as a heat equation on a bounded domain with finitely many point actuators and design a tracking feedback based on pointwise evaluations of , where and is the Neumann diffusion operator. Working in the natural setting with , we prove exponential stabilization of the tracking error via distribution-actuator theory. For non-equilibrium reference profiles, we add a constant feedforward term and a low-mode fixed-point pre-compensation on , ensuring exact steady matching on and an explicit bound on the residual tail mismatch.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.14581,
title = {Feedback Stabilization and Tracking for Heat Equations Using Thermo-Plasmonic Nanoparticles as Actuators},
author = {Arpan Mukherjee and Sérgio S. Rodrigues and Mourad Sini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.14581},
year = {2026}
}