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A mathematical framework for optimal bilinear control of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of Gross-Pitaevskii type arising in the description of Bose-Einstein condensates is presented. The obtained results generalize earlier efforts found…
We show that a bilinear control system is approximately controllable if and only if it is controllable in $\mathbb{R}^{n}\setminus\{0\}$. We approach this problem by looking at the foliation made by the orbits of the system, and by showing…
In this paper, we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy-Neumann problems. First, we will obtain embedding results for weighted Sobolev spaces, that have proved decisive in…
We review a scheme for the systematic design of quantum control protocols based on shortcuts to adiabaticity in few-level quantum systems. The adiabatic dynamics is accelerated by introducing high-frequency modulations in the control…
An asymptotic approach for a Schroedinger type equation with a non selfadjoint slowly varying Hamiltonian of a special type is developed. The Hamiltonian is assumed to be the result of a small perturbation of an operator with a twofold…
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 study the error in the approximate simultaneous controllability of the bilinear Schrodinger equation. We provide estimates based on a tracking algorithm for general bilinear quantum systems and on the study of the finite…
Adiabatic passage employs a slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonian to control the evolution of a quantum system along the Hamiltonian eigenstates. For processes of finite duration, the exact time evolving state may deviate from the…
In this paper, we study the exact boundary controllability of the linear Biharmonic Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_ty=-\partial_x^4y+ \gamma\partial_x^2y$ on a bounded domain with hinged boundary conditions and boundary control acts on…
This article presents some controllability and stabilization results for a system of two coupled linear Schr\"odinger equations in the one-dimensional case where the state components are interacting through the Kirchhoff boundary…
We propose a method to transfer the population and control the state of two-level and three-level atoms speeding-up Adiabatic Passage techniques while keeping their robustness versus parameter variations. The method is based on…
Three-body systems in two dimensions with zero-range interactions are considered for general masses and interaction strengths. The problem is formulated in momentum space and the numerical solution of the Schr\"odinger equation is used to…
In multi-level systems, the commonly used adiabatic elimination is a method for approximating the dynamics of the system by eliminating irrelevant, non-resonantly coupled levels. This procedure is, however, somewhat ambiguous and it is not…
We discuss the application of the adiabatic perturbation theory to analyze the dynamics in various systems in the limit of slow parametric changes of the Hamiltonian. We first consider a two-level system and give an elementary derivation of…
Schr\"{o}dinger bridge is a stochastic optimal control problem to steer a given initial state density to another, subject to controlled diffusion and deadline constraints. A popular method to numerically solve the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge…
In the framework of the application of the Boundary Control method to solving the inverse dynamical problems for the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger and Dirac operators on the half-line and semi-infinite discrete Schr\"odinger operator, we…
We study a one-dimensional non-stationary Schr\"odinger equation with a potential slowly depending on time. The corresponding stationary operator depends on time as on a parameter. It has a finite number of negative eigenvalues and…
Adiabatic quantum computation employs a slow change of a time-dependent control function (or functions) to interpolate between an initial and final Hamiltonian, which helps to keep the system in the instantaneous ground state. When the…
Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…
We investigate the small-time local controllability (STLC) near the ground state of a bilinear Schr\"odinger equation when the linearized system is not controllable. It is well known that, for single-input systems, quadratic terms in the…