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Indirect controllability of an arbitrary finite dimensional quantum system (N-dimensional qudit) through a quantum accessor is investigated. Here, The qudit is coupled to a quantum accessor which is modeled as a fully controllable spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. C. Fu , Hui Dong , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

It has recently been shown that the minimum energy solution of the control problem for a linear system produces a control trajectory that is nonlocal. An issue then arises when the dynamics represents a linearization of the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Isaac Klickstein , Afroza Shirin , Francesco Sorrentino

In this work, we propose a robust approach to design distributed controllers for unknown-but-sparse linear and time-invariant systems. By leveraging modern techniques in distributed controller synthesis and structured linear inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Salar Fattahi , Nikolai Matni , Somayeh Sojoudi

We consider the controllability problem for the continuity equation, corresponding to neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which describes how a probability measure is pushedforward by the flow. We show that the controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Bahman Gharesifard , Andrea Bertozzi , Stanley Osher

The objective of the paper is to investigate the approximate controllability property of a linear stochastic control system with values in a separable real Hilbert space. In a first step we prove the existence and uniqueness for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-12 D. Goreac

We study the time-inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations with potentially indefinite cost weighting matrices for both the state and the control variables. Our research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma

This paper is devoted to the partial null controllability issue of parabolic linear systems with n equations. Given a bounded domain in R N, we study the effect of m localized controls in a nonempty open subset only controlling p components…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Farid Ammar Khodja , Franz Chouly , Michel Duprez

We investigate the controllability of an infinite-dimensional quantum system: a quantum particle confined on a Thick Quantum Graph, a generalisation of Quantum Graphs whose edges are allowed to be manifolds of arbitrary dimension with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Aitor Balmaseda , Davide Lonigro , Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo

This paper proposes new quadratic constraints (QCs) to bound a quadratic polynomial. Such QCs can be used in dissipation ineqaulities to analyze the stability and performance of nonlinear systems with quadratic vector fields. The proposed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Shih-Chi Liao , Maziar S. Hemati , Peter Seiler

In this paper, we consider a parabolic PDE on a torus of arbitrary dimension. The nonlinear term is a smooth function of polynomial growth of any degree. In this general setting, the corresponding Cauchy problem is not necessarily well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Vahagn Nersesyan

This paper proposes a framework to assess the stability of an ordinary differential equation which is coupled to a 1D-partial differential equation (PDE). The stability theorem is based on a new result on Integral Quadratic Constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Matthieu Barreau , Carsten W. Scherer , Frederic Gouaisbaut , Alexandre Seuret

In this paper, we study the necessary and sufficient conditions for ensuring the well-posedness of the stochastic singular systems. Moreover, we investigate the stochastic singular linear-quadratic control problems, considering both finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Mengzhen Li , Tianyang Nie , Zhen Wu

This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Lingyang Liu

We study local controllability and optimal control problems for invertible discrete-time control systems. We present second order necessary conditions for optimality and sufficient conditions for local controllability. The conditions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-30 M. Barbero-Liñán , B. Jakubczyk

A joint characterisation of the controllability and observability of a particular kind of discrete system has been developed. The key idea of the procedure can be reduced to a correct choice of the sampling sequence. This freedom, owing to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Amparo Fúster-Sabater , J. M. Guillén

This paper studies the partially observed stochastic optimal control problem for systems with state dynamics governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) that leads to an extremely large problem. First, an open-loop deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Dan Yu , Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty

We describe quantum controllability under the influences of the quantum decoherence induced by the quantum control itself. It is shown that, when the controller is considered as a quantum system, it will entangle with its controlled system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fei Xue , S. X. Yu , C. P. Sun

This paper focuses on the application of time domain decomposition to solve partial differential equations constrained optimization problems and controllability problems. After clarifying the link between these two types of problems, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Pierre-Henri Cocquet , Liu-Di Lu

In this paper, we consider the well-known Fattorini's criterion for approximate controllability of infinite dimensional linear systems of type $y'=A y+Bu$. We precise the result proved by H. O. Fattorini in \cite{Fattorini1966} for bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Mehdi Badra , Takéo Takahashi

The present work is motivated by the asymptotic control theory for a system of linear oscillators: the problem is to design a common bounded scalar control for damping all oscillators in asymptotically minimal time. The motion of the system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Aleksey Fedorov , Alexander Ovseevich