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This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic optimal control problem for networked system simultaneously with input delay and Markovian dropout. Different from the results in the literature, we consider the hold-input strategy, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Hongdan Li , Xun Li , Huanshui Zhang

Quantum optimal control theory (QOCT) aims at finding an external field that drives a quantum system in such a way that optimally achieves some predefined target. In practice this normally means optimizing the value of some observable, a so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 Alberto Castro , I. V. Tokatly

In this paper, we develop a rigorous optimal control-theoretic approach to Transformer training that respects key structural constraints such as (i) realized-input-independence during execution, (ii) the ensemble control nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kağan Akman , Naci Saldı , Serdar Yüksel

Reducing decoherence is an essential step toward realizing general-purpose quantum computers beyond the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. To this end, dynamical decoupling (DD) approaches in which external fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki , Suicho Mikami , Toru Ajiki , David J. Tannor

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

Correlations of an environment are crucial for the dynamics of non-Markovian quantum systems, which may not be known in advance. In this paper, we propose a gradient algorithm for identifying the correlations in terms of time-varying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Shibei Xue , Jun Zhang , Ian R. Petersen

This paper presents a data-driven method to find a closed-loop optimal controller, which minimizes a specified infinite-horizon cost function for systems with unknown dynamics. Suppose the closed-loop optimal controller can be parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wenjian Hao , Paulo C. Heredia , Shaoshuai Mou

We study time-minimum optimal control for a class of quantum two-dimensional dissipative systems whose dynamics are governed by the Lindblad equation and where control inputs acts only in the Hamiltonian. The dynamics of the control system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 William Clark , Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Patrick Rooney

In this paper, we establish a general stochastic maximum principle for optimal control for systems described by a continuous-time Markov regime-switching stochastic recursive utilities model. The control domain is postulated not to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Liangquan Zhang , Xun Li

We investigate optimal control of linear port-Hamiltonian systems with control constraints, in which one aims to perform a state transition with minimal energy supply. Decomposing the state space into dissipative and non-dissipative (i.e.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Manuel Schaller , Friedrich Philipp , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann , Bernhard Maschke

A process tomography based optimization scheme for open quantum systems is used to determine the performance limits of Josephson charge qubits within current experimental means. The qubit is modeled microscopically as an open quantum system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-19 Robert Roloff , Walter Pötz

Optimal control techniques provide a means to tailor the control pulses required to generate customized quantum gates, which helps to improve the resilience of quantum simulations to gate errors and device noise. However, the significant…

There has long been interest to control the transfer of population between specified quantum states. Recent work has optimized the control law for closed system population transfer by using a gradient ascent pulse engineer- ing algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Wei Cui , Zairong Xi , Yu Pan

This paper revisits the problem of optimal control law design for linear systems using the global optimal control framework introduced by Vadim Krotov. Krotov's approach is based on the idea of total decomposition of the original optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Avinash Kumar , Tushar Jain

We consider the problem of finding the energy minimum of a complex quantum Hamiltonian by employing a non-Markovian bath prepared in a low energy state. The energy minimization problem is thus turned into a thermodynamic cooling protocol in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Alberto Imparato , Nicholas Chancellor , Gabriele De Chiara

We present an exact expansion of the master equation for an open quantum system. The resulting equation is time local and enables us to calculate clearly defined higher order corrections to the Born-Markov approximation. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Christian Karlewski , Michael Marthaler

In this survey we present the near-optimal stochastic control problem according to some recent tools in the literature. In particular, we focus on the approach of a discretization of the noise values instead of the canonical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Lourival Lima , Paulo Ruffino , Francys Souza

We study the time-optimal robust control of a two-level quantum system subjected to field inhomogeneities. We apply the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and we introduce a reduced space onto which the optimal dynamics is projected down. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 O. Fresse-Colson , S. Guérin , Xi Chen , D. Sugny

In this letter, we introduce a novel method for investigating dissipation (gain) and thermalization in an open quantum system. In this method, the quantum system is coupled linearly with a copy of itself or with another system described by…

Quantum Lyapunov control was developed in order to transform a quantum system from arbitrary initial states to a target state. The idea is to find control fields that steer the Lyapunov function to zero as $t\rightarrow \infty$, meanwhile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. C. Hou , M. A. Khan , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , X. X. Yi