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Feedback Stabilization and Tracking for Heat Equations Using Thermo-Plasmonic Nanoparticles as Actuators

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-17 v1

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 A1y\mathcal A^{-1}y, where A=IA0\mathcal A=I-A_0 and A0A_0 is the Neumann diffusion operator. Working in the natural VV' setting with V=D(A)V=D(\mathcal A), 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 XNX_N, ensuring exact steady matching on XNX_N and an explicit bound on the residual tail mismatch.

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@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}
}
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