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The unprecedented predictive success of deep generative models in complex many-body systems, such as AlphaFold3, raises an epistemological question: do these networks merely memorize data distributions via high-dimensional interpolation, or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-18 Wenjie Xi , Wei-Qiang Chen

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

With this contribution, we give a complete and comprehensive framework for modeling the dynamics of complex mechanical structures as port-Hamiltonian systems. This is motivated by research on the potential of lightweight construction using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Alexander Warsewa , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic systems. Remarkably, this approach, relying on stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-31 David Guéry-Odelin , Christopher Jarzynski , Carlos A. Plata , Antonio Prados , Emmanuel Trizac

We study the Hamiltonian dynamics of a one-dimensional chain of linearly coupled particles in a spatially periodic potential which is subjected to a time-periodic mono-frequency external field. The average over time and space of the related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Hennig

We introduce a new approach for the robust control of quantum dynamics of strongly interacting many-body systems. Our approach involves the design of periodic global control pulse sequences to engineer desired target Hamiltonians that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Joonhee Choi , Hengyun Zhou , Helena S. Knowles , Renate Landig , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

The goal of this contribution is to introduce the Hamiltonian formalism of theoretical mechanics for analysing motion in generic linear and non-linear dynamical systems, including particle accelerators. This framework allows the derivation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yannis Papaphilippou

Physics-inspired neural networks (NNs), such as Hamiltonian or Lagrangian NNs, dramatically outperform other learned dynamics models by leveraging strong inductive biases. These models, however, are challenging to apply to many real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Optimal control of molecular dynamics is commonly expressed from a quantum mechanical perspective. However, in most contexts the preponderance of molecular dynamics studies utilize classical mechanical models. This paper treats laser-driven…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Carlee Joe-Wong , Tak-San Ho , Ruixing Long , Herschel Rabitz , Rebing Wu

Active many-body systems composed of many interacting degrees of freedom often operate out of equilibrium, giving rise to non-trivial emergent behaviors which can be functional in both evolved and engineered contexts. This naturally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-29 Sumit Sinha , Vishaal Krishnan , L Mahadevan

This paper proposes Hamiltonian Learning, a novel unified framework for learning with neural networks "over time", i.e., from a possibly infinite stream of data, in an online manner, without having access to future information. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Stefano Melacci , Alessandro Betti , Michele Casoni , Tommaso Guidi , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori

Distributed Port-Hamiltonian (dPHS) theory provides a powerful framework for modeling physical systems governed by partial differential equations and has enabled a broad class of boundary control methodologies. Their effectiveness, however,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Thomas Beckers , Leonardo Colombo

We explore the use of Physics Informed Neural Networks to analyse nonlinear Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems with a first integral of motion. In this work, we propose an architecture which combines existing Hamiltonian Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vedanta Thapar

Conventional manipulations over quantum systems for such as coherent population trapping and unidirectional transfer focus on Hamiltonian engineering while regarding the system's manifold geometry and constraint equation as secondary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

Current studies about the continuous-variable systems in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics heavily revolved around the singularities in the eigenspectrum by mimicking their discrete-variable counterparts. Discussions over the nonunitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

The problem of real-time control and optimization of components' routing in discrete manufacturing plants, where distinct items must undergo a sequence of jobs, is considered. This problem features a large number of discrete control inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Lorenzo Fagiano , Marko Tanaskovic , Lenin Cucas Mallitasig , Andrea Cataldo , Riccardo Scattolini

This paper motivates the use of random-bridges -- stochastic processes conditioned to take target distributions at fixed timepoints -- in the realm of generative modelling. Herein, random-bridges can act as stochastic transports between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stefano Goria , Levent A. Mengütürk , Murat C. Mengütürk , Berkan Sesen

We address the problem of sampling from terminally constrained distributions with pre-trained flow-based generative models through an optimal control formulation. Theoretically, we characterize the value function by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Weiguo Gao , Ming Li , Qianxiao Li

A probabilistic framework is proposed for the optimization of efficient switched control strategies for physical systems dominated by stochastic excitation. In this framework, the equation for the state trajectory is replaced with an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Gianluca Meneghello , Paolo Luchini , Thomas Bewley

We consider a single particle tunnelling in a tight-binding model with nearest-neighbour couplings, in the presence of a periodic high-frequency force. An effective Hamiltonian for the particle is derived using an averaging method…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-07 A. P. Itin , A. I. Neishtadt