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Most modern control systems are switched, meaning they have continuous as well as discrete decision variables. Switched systems often have constraints called dwell-time constraints (e.g., cycling constraints in a heat pump) on the switching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Moad Abudia , Michael Harlan , Ryan Self , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

A discrete-time method for solving problems in optimal quantum control is presented. Controlling the time discretized markovian dynamics of a quantum system can be reduced to a Markov-decision process. We demonstrate this method in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Jon R. Grice , David A. Meyer

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

The Switch Point Algorithm is a new approach for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are either singular or bang-bang or both singular and bang-bang, and which possess a finite number of jump discontinuities in an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Mahya Aghaee , William W. Hager

Recent breakthroughs have opened the possibility to intermediate-scale quantum computing with tens to hundreds of qubits, and shown the potential for solving classical challenging problems, such as in chemistry and condensed matter physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Zhong-Xia Shang , Ming-Cheng Chen , Xiao Yuan , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan

Optimal control theory is developed for the task of obtaining a primary objective in a subspace of the Hilbert space while avoiding other subspaces of the Hilbert space. The primary objective can be a state-to-state transition or a unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-13 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff , Christiane P. Koch

We propose in this paper a gradient-type dynamical system to solve the problem of maximizing quantum observables for finite dimensional closed quantum ensembles governed by the controlled Liouville-von Neumann equation. The asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Ruixing Long , Herschel Rabitz

We study the stability of the Schr\"odinger equation generated by time-dependent Hamiltonians with constant form domain. That is, we bound the difference between solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation by the difference of their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Aitor Balmaseda , Davide Lonigro , Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo

In this work, we analyze Parametrized Advection-Dominated distributed Optimal Control Problems with random inputs in a Reduced Order Model (ROM) context. All the simulations are initially based on a finite element method (FEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Fabio Zoccolan , Maria Strazzullo , Gianluigi Rozza

This paper develops a robust fixed time optimization framework for constrained problems that guarantees exact constraint satisfaction and convergence to KKT points within fixed time , independent of initial conditions. The approach treats…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Baby Diana , Priyanka Singh , Shyam Kamal , Sandip Ghosh , Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

In various physical implementations of quantum information processing, qubits are realized in a Lambda type system configuration as two stable lower energy levels coupled indirectly via an unstable higher energy level, that is, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Julia Cen , Domenico D'Alessandro

Designing multi-qubit quantum logic gates with experimental constraints is an important problem in quantum computing. Here, we develop a new quantum optimal control algorithm for finding unitary transformations with constraints on the…

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A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

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We consider the periodic initial-value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation that we discretize in space by a spectral Fourier-Galerkin method and in time by an implicit, high order, Runge-Kutta scheme of composition type based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Vassilios A. Dougalis , Angel Durán

This paper addresses the problem of robust control of a linear discrete-time system subject to bounded disturbances and to measurement and control budget constraints. Using Q-parameterization and a polytope containment method, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Antoine Aspeel , Kwesi Rutledge , Raphaël M. Jungers , Benoit Macq , Necmiye Özay

Optimal control theory is applied to analyze the time-optimal solution with a single scalar control knob in a two-level quantum system without quantum decoherence. Emphasis is \change{placed} on the dependence on the maximum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Chungwei Lin , Qi Ding , Petros T. Boufounos , Yanting Ma , Yebin Wang , Dries Sels , Chih-Chun Chien

We consider a control constrained parabolic optimal control problem and use variational discretization for its time semi-discretization. The state equation is treated with a Petrov-Galerkin scheme using a piecewise constant Ansatz for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Nikolaus von Daniels , Michael Hinze , Morten Vierling

A systematic scheme is proposed to numerically estimate the quantum speed limit and temporal shape of optimal control in two-level and three-level quantum systems with bounded amplitude. For the two-level system, two quantum state…

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