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Controllability -- the possibility of performing any target dynamics by applying a set of available operations -- is a fundamental requirement for the practical use of any physical system. For finite-dimensional systems, as for instance…
Quantum control in large dimensional Hilbert spaces is essential for realizing the power of quantum information processing. For closed quantum systems the relevant input/output maps are unitary transformations, and the fundamental challenge…
The reachable set for a finite dimensional quantum system is shown to be the orbit of the group corresponding to the internal and control Hamiltonians, even if this group is not compact.
A major application of the mathematical concept of graph in quantum mechanics is to model networks of electrical wires or electromagnetic wave-guides. In this paper, we address the dynamics of a particle trapped on such a network in…
This project investigates the approximate controllability of a class of stochastic integrodifferential equations in Hilbert space with non-local beginning conditions. In a departure from the conventional concerns expressed in the…
We study the small-time approximate controllability of bilinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations, where the drift is a magnetic Schr{\"o}dinger operator and the control is an electric potential. We prove this property in two circumstances: (i) in…
In quantum control theory, the fundamental issue of controllability covers the questions whether and under which conditions a system can be steered from one pure state into another by suitably tuned time evolution operators. Even though Lie…
This paper is concerned with the internal distributed control problem for the 1D Schroedinger equation, $i\,u_t(x,t)=-u_{xx}+\alpha(x)\,u+m(u)\,u,$ that arises in quantum semiconductor models. Here $m(u)$ is a non local Hartree--type…
The article considers a two-level open quantum system, whose evolution is governed by the Gorini--Kossakowski--Lindblad--Sudarshan master equation with Hamiltonian and dissipation superoperator depending, correspondingly, on piecewise…
We consider a bilinear control problem for the wave equation on a torus of arbitrary dimension. We show that the system is globally approximately controllable in arbitrarily small times from a dense family of initial states. The control…
This paper provides a framework for the control of quantum mechanical systems with scattering states, i.e., systems with continuous spectra. We present the concept and prove a criterion of the approximate strong smooth controllability. Our…
In laboratory and numerical experiments, physical quantities are known with a finite precision and described by rational numbers. Based on this, we deduce that quantum control problems both for open and closed systems are in general not…
This analysis is concerned with the controllability of quantum systems in the case where the standard dipolar approximation, involving the permanent dipole moment of the system, is corrected with a polarizability term, involving the field…
We here consider optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations on a Hilbert space H with nonconvex payoff, which is rewritten as a deterministic optimal control problem governed by a Kolmogorov equation in H. We prove…
We address the small-time controllability problem for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on $\mathbb{R}^N$ in the presence of magnetic and electric external fields. We choose a particular framework where the equation becomes…
In this paper, we study the exact boundary controllability of the linear fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation, with variable physical parameters and clamped boundary conditions on a bounded interval. The control acts on the first spatial…
In our model a fixed Hamiltonian acts on the joint Hilbert space of a quantum system and its controller. We show under which conditions measurements, state preparations, and unitary implementations on the system can be performed by quantum…
We prove that the Schr\"odinger equation is approximately controllable in Sobolev spaces $H^s$, $s>0$ generically with respect to the potential. We give two applications of this result. First, in the case of one space dimension, combining…
In this paper, we investigate the controllability of bilinear control systems of the form $\dot{s} = As + uBs$, where $s \in \mathbb{S}^2$ and $A, B \in gl(3, \mathbb{R})$ are skew-symmetric matrices. First, we prove that the algebraic…
We consider a quantum particle in a 1D interval submitted to a potential. The evolution of this particle is controlled using an external electric field. Taking into account the so-called polarizability term in the model (quadratic with…