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We define a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks containing the most relevant features of real routing schemes, i.e. a trade--off strategy between topological-based and traffic-based routing. The resulting collective behavior,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

The characterisation of quantum networks is fundamental to understanding how energy and information propagates through complex systems, with applications in control, communication, error mitigation and energy transfer. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Conall J. Campbell , Matthew Mackinnon , Mauro Paternostro , Diana A. Chisholm

Complex systems are challenging to control because the system responds to the controller in a nonlinear fashion, often incorporating feedback mechanisms. Interdependence of systems poses additional difficulties, as cross-system connections…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-04-07 Malgorzata Turalska , Ananthram Swami

Feedback control is an effective strategy for stabilizing a desired state and has been widely adopted in maintaining the stability of systems such as flying birds and power grids. By default, this framework requires continuous control input…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-14 Yuanzhao Zhang , Sean P. Cornelius

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

We explore the impact of commensurate multifrequency driving protocols on the stability of topological edge modes in topological 1D systems of spinless fermions. Using Floquet theory, we show that all the topological phase transitions can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Paolo Molignini

The field of optimal control typically requires the assumption of perfect knowledge of the system one desires to control, which is an unrealistic assumption for biological systems, or networks, typically affected by high levels of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Isaac Klickstein , Francesco Sorrentino

This article presents a robust control strategy using Time-Optimal Model Predictive Control (TOMPC) for a two-level quantum system subject to bounded uncertainties. In this method, the control field is optimized over a finite horizon using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

Topology is a fundamental aspect of quantum physics, and it has led to key breakthroughs and results in various fields of quantum materials. In condensed matters, this has culminated in the recent discovery of symmetry-protected topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Baokai Wang , Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Tzen Ong , Hsin Lin

In this paper we prove a necessary condition of the optimal control problem for a class of general mean-field forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps in the case where the diffusion coefficients depend on control, the control set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

Recently, there has been a surge of research on a class of methods called feedback optimization. These are methods to steer the state of a control system to an equilibrium that arises as the solution of an optimization problem. Despite the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Control of quantum systems is a central element of high-precision experiments and the development of quantum technological applications. Control pulses that are typically temporally or spatially modulated are often designed based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Frederic Sauvage , Florian Mintert

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy with a single free parameter $\alpha$ only based on local information of network topology. In order to maximize the packets handling capacity of underlying structure that can be measured by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Chuan-Yang Yin , Bing-Hong Wang , Wen-Xu Wang , Tao Zhou , Hui-Jie Yang

This paper presents an optimal network topology control framework using cutting-plane methods for efficient network partitioning with controllable edges. The objective is to enable real-time reconfiguration of interconnected sub-networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Harsha Nagarajan , Robert Ferrando , Russell Bent , David Fobes

Achieving full control of the time-evolution of a many-body quantum system is currently a major goal in physics. In this work we investigate the different ways in which the controllability of a quantum system can be influenced by its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 P. M. Poggi , D. A. Wisniacki

The most basic scenario of quantum control involves the organized manipulation of pure dynamical states of the system by means of unitary transformations. Recently, Vilela Mendes and Mank'o have shown that the conditions for controllability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mandilara , J. W. Clark

Networked systems display complex patterns of interactions between a large number of components. In physical networks, these interactions often occur along structural connections that link components in a hard-wired connection topology,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-03 Jason Kim , Jonathan M. Soffer , Ari E. Kahn , Jean M. Vettel , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

We survey recent results on controlled particle systems. The control aspect introduces new challenges in the discussion of properties and suitable mean field limits. Some of the aspects are highlighted in a detailed discussion of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 M. K. Banda , M. Herty , T. Trimborn

The traditional framework of quantum metrology commonly assumes unlimited access to resources, overlooking resource constraints in realistic scenarios. As such, the optimal strategies therein can be infeasible in practice. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Longyun Chen , Yuxiang Yang

Quantum measurements are considered for optimal control of quantum dynamics with instantaneous and continuous observations utilized to manipulate population transfer. With an optimal set of measurements, the highest yield in a two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Feng Shuang , Mianlai Zhou , Alexander Pechen , Rebing Wu , Ofer M. Shir , Herschel Rabitz