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Many-body ground states can be prepared via unitary evolution in cold atomic systems. Given the initial state and a fixed time for the evolution, how close can we get to a desired ground state if we can tune the Hamiltonian in time? Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-06 Armin Rahmani , Claudio Chamon

We study the thermodynamics of open systems weakly driven out-of-equilibrium by nonconservative and time-dependent forces using the linear regime of stochastic thermodynamics. We make use of conservation laws to identify the potential and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-13 Danilo Forastiere , Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a pedagogical introduction to the notion of thermodynamic length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Paolo Abiuso , Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Matteo Scandi

The problem of optimally measuring an analytic function of unknown local parameters each linearly coupled to a qubit sensor is well understood, with applications ranging from field interpolation to noise characterization. Here, we resolve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jacob Bringewatt , Adam Ehrenberg , Tarushii Goel , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Learning is a complex dynamical process shaped by a range of interconnected decisions. Careful design of hyperparameter schedules for artificial neural networks or efficient allocation of cognitive resources by biological learners can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-11 Francesca Mignacco , Francesco Mori

The theory of perfect fluids is reconsidered from the point of view of a covariant Lagrangian theory. It has been shown that the Euler-Lagrange equations for a perfect fluid could be found in spaces with affine connections and metrics from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sawa Manoff

Within this work, we consider optimization settings for nonlinear, nonstationary fluid-structure interaction. The problem is formulated in a monolithic fashion using the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian framework to set-up the fluid-structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

By a semi-Lagrangian change of coordinates, the hydrostatic Euler equations describing free-surface sheared flows is rewritten as a system of quasilinear equations, where stability conditions can be determined by the analysis of its…

We develop a stochastic model for Lagrangian velocity as it is observed in experimental and numerical fully developed turbulent flows. We define it as the unique statistically stationary solution of a causal dynamics, given by a stochastic…

Conditions are established under which the optimal control of processes having both absolutely continuous and singular (with respect to time) controls are equivalent to linear programs over a space of measures on the state and control…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Thomas G. Kurtz , Richard H. Stockbridge

We formulate nonlinear nonlocal integro-PDE with memory, biloaded (boundary integrals load the ambient space, and the ambient space loads the boundary), and the associated optimal control problems. We derive part of the necessary conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 S. A. Belbas

A natural criticism of the optimal protocol of the irreversible work found for weakly driven processes is its experimental difficulty in being implementable due to its singular part. In this work, I explore the possibility of taking its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Pierre Nazé

We consider damped stochastic systems in a controlled (time-varying) quadratic potential and study their transition between specified Gibbs-equilibria states in finite time. By the second law of thermodynamics, the minimum amount of work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-23 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

We propose a class of numerical schemes for mixed optimal stopping and control of processes with infinite activity jumps and where the objective is evaluated by a nonlinear expectation. Exploiting an approximation by switching systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Roxana Dumitrescu , Christoph Reisinger , Yufei Zhang

We consider the integrable family of symmetric boundary-driven interacting particle systems that arise from the non-compact XXX Heisenberg model in one dimension with open boundaries. In contrast to the well-known symmetric exclusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Rouven Frassek , Cristian Giardinà

The system of Navier--Stokes--Fourier equations is one of the most celebrated systems of equations in modern science. It describes dynamics of fluids in the limit when gradients of density, velocity and temperature are sufficiently small,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-03 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

We study the three-dimensional isothermal Euler equations with linear damping and an exterior potential. For sufficiently large damping, we prove global well-posedness for arbitrarily large initial data by combining a parabolic comparison…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Young-Pil Choi , Houzhi Tang , Weiyuan Zou

We provide a unifying framework for $\mathcal{L}_2$-optimal reduced-order modeling for linear time-invariant dynamical systems and stationary parametric problems. Using parameter-separable forms of the reduced-model quantities, we derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Petar Mlinarić , Serkan Gugercin

The paper addresses an error analysis of an Eulerian finite element method used for solving a linearized Navier--Stokes problem in a time-dependent domain. In this study, the domain's evolution is assumed to be known and independent of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii