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We study a mixed heat and Schr\"odinger Ginzburg-Landau evolution equation on a bounded two-dimensional domain with an electric current applied on the boundary and a pinning potential term. This is meant to model a superconductor subjected…
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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…
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In the contest of optimal control problems, regularity results for optima are known when addressing fiber-strictly convex Lagrangian. For infinite time horizons, or for settings with infinite dimensional dynamics, the equivalence between…
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The initial value problem for the Ginzburg-Landau-Schr\"odinger equation is examined in the $\epsilon \rightarrow 0$ limit under two main assumptions on the initial data $\phi^\epsilon$. The first assumption is that $\phi^\epsilon$ exhibits…
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