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Optimal control theory, also known as Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, is applied to the quantum parameter estimation in the presence of decoherence. An efficient procedure is devised to compute the gradient of quantum Fisher information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Chungwei Lin , Yanting Ma , Dries Sels

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

A formalism based on Pontryagin's maximum principle is applied to determine the time-optimal protocol that drives a general initial state to a target state by a Hamiltonian with limited control, i.e., there is a single control field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yebin Wang

We study the numerical realisation of optimal consensus control laws for agent-based models. For a nonlinear multi-agent system of Cucker-Smale type, consensus control is cast as a dynamic optimisation problem for which we derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Rafael Bailo , Mattia Bongini , José A. Carrillo , Dante Kalise

This paper concerns some time optimal control problems of three different ordinary differential equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Corresponding to certain initial data and controls, the solutions of the systems quench at finite time. The goal to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Ping Lin

In this paper, we propose a unified stochastic optimal control framework that integrates time-optimal control problems with classical stochastic optimal control formulations. Unlike conventional deterministic time-optimal control models,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Shuzhen Yang

We formulate an economic optimal control problem for transport of natural gas over a large-scale transmission pipeline network under transient flow conditions. The objective is to maximize economic welfare for users of the pipeline system,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Anatoly Zlotnik , Kaarthik Sundar , Aleksandr M. Rudkevich , Aleksandr Beylin , Xindi Li

This work is a continuation of the previous one in [{\it Optimization} (2023)], where the existence of optimal solutions and first-order necessary optimality conditions in both Pontryagin's maximum principle form and the variational form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Cung The Anh , Nguyen Hai Ha Giang

We apply the theory of optimal control to the dynamics of two "gmon" qubits, with the goal of preparing a desired entangled ground state from an initial unentangled one. Given an initial state, a target state, and a Hamiltonian with a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Seraph Bao , Silken Kleer , Ruoyu Wang , Armin Rahmani

This paper considers the stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in which the control domain is nonconvex. By the functional analysis and convex perturbation methods, we establish a novel maximum principle. The application of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

We consider a stochastic control problem, where the control domain is convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. With a L1 terminal data, we derive necessary optimality conditions in the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-07-23 Seid Bahlali

We study the problem of state transition on a finite time interval with minimal energy supply for linear port-Hamiltonian systems. While the cost functional of minimal energy supply is intrinsic to the port-Hamiltonian structure, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Timm Faulwasser , Jonas Kirchhoff , Volker Mehrmann , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

This paper presents a new method for solving a class of nonlinear optimal control problems with a quadratic performance index. In this method, first the original optimal control problem is transformed into a nonlinear two-point boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Amin Jajarmi , Hamidreza Ramezanpour , Arman Sargolzaei , Pouyan Shafaei

A Hamiltonian algorithm, both theoretical and numerical, to obtain the reduced equations implementing Pontryagine's Maximum Principle for singular linear-quadratic optimal control problems is presented. This algorithm is inspired on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-13 M. Delgado-Tellez , A. Ibort

In this paper, we are concerned with a stochastic optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the state equation is governed by the controlled nonlinear mean-field stochastic differential equation, moreover…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maonin Tang , Qingxin Meng

In this article we study optimal control problems for systems that are affine in one part of the control variable. Finitely many equality and inequality constraints on the initial and final values of the state are considered. We investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna

We study the optimal control problem of allocating campaigning resources over the campaign duration and degree classes in a social network. Information diffusion is modeled as a Susceptible-Infected epidemic and direct recruitment of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Kundan Kandhway , Joy Kuri

Reliable high-fidelity quantum state transformation has always been considered as an inseparable part of quantum information processing. In this regard, Pontryagin maximum principle has proved to play an important role to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

This paper investigates the social optimum for a dynamic linear quadratic collective choice problem where a group of agents choose among multiple alternatives or destinations. The agents' common objective is to minimize the average cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Noureddine Toumi , Roland Malhamé , Jérôme Le Ny

We study the optimal sustainable harvesting of a population that lives in a random environment. The novelty of our setting is that we maximize the asymptotic harvesting yield, both in an expected value and almost sure sense, for a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Alexandru Hening