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Good Lie Brackets for classical and quantum harmonic oscillators

Optimization and Control 2025-03-17 v1

Abstract

We study the small-time controllability problem on the Lie groups SL2(R)SL_2(\mathbb{R}) and SL2(R)Hd(R)SL_2(\mathbb{R})\ltimes H_{d}(\mathbb{R}) with Lie bracket methods (here Hd(R)H_{d}(\mathbb{R}) denotes the (2d+1)(2d+1)-dimensional real Heisenberg group). Then, using unitary representations of SL2(R)Hd(R)SL_2(\mathbb{R})\ltimes H_{d}(\mathbb{R}) on L2(Rd,C)L^2(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{C}) and Lp(TRd,R),p[1,)L^p(T^*\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R}), p\in[1,\infty), we recover small-time approximate reachability properties of the Schr\"odinger PDE for the quantum harmonic oscillator, and find new small-time approximate reachability properties of the Liouville PDE for the classical harmonic oscillator.

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@article{arxiv.2503.11307,
  title  = {Good Lie Brackets for classical and quantum harmonic oscillators},
  author = {Andrei Agrachev and Bettina Kazandjian and Eugenio Pozzoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11307},
  year   = {2025}
}
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