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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…

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The path-integral control, which stems from the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, is one of the methods to control stochastic nonlinear systems. This paper gives a new insight into nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems…

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