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We study the approximate controllability problem for Liouville transport equations along a mechanical Hamiltonian vector field. Such PDEs evolve inside the orbit $$\mathcal{O}(\rho_0):=\left\{\rho_0\circ \Phi\mid \Phi\in {\rm…
Experimental systems with power-law interactions have recently garnered interest as promising platforms for quantum information processing. Such systems are capable of spreading entanglement superballistically and achieving an asymptotic…
We develop a methodology for performing approximate optimal control simulations for quantum systems with multiple interacting degrees of freedom. The quantum dynamics are modeled using the first-order Magnus approximation in the interaction…
We study both the classical and quantum rotational dynamics of an asymmetric top molecule, controlled through three orthogonal electric fields that interact with its dipole moment. The main difficulties in studying the controllability of…
In this paper, we design and experimentally implement various robust quantum unitary transformations (gates) acting on $d$-dimensional vectors (qudits) by tuning a single control parameter using optimal control theory. The quantum state is…
Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…
We provide bounds on the error between dynamics of an infinite dimensional bilinear Schr\"odinger equation and of its finite dimensional Galerkin approximations. Standard averaging methods are used on the finite dimensional approximations…
We propose a variational model with diffeomorphic optimal transportation for joint image reconstruction and motion estimation. The proposed model is a production of assembling the Wasserstein distance with the Benamou--Brenier formula in…
It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering it provides a systematic way for driving a system from a given initial state into a desired target state with minimized expenditure of energy…
In topology, a torus remains invariant under certain non-trivial transformations known as modular transformations. In the context of topologically ordered quantum states of matter, these transformations encode the braiding statistics and…
We address the following problem: given two smooth densities on a manifold, find an optimal diffeomorphism that transforms one density into the other. Our framework builds on connections between the Fisher-Rao information metric on the…
Spin squeezing serves as both a fundamental witness of quantum entanglement and a critical resource for quantum-enhanced metrology. While generating substantial spin squeezing in finite-range interacting systems remains challenging, such…
Direct optimal control theory for quantum dynamical problems presents itself as an interesting alternative to the traditional indirect optimal control. The method relies on the first discretize and then optimize paradigm, where a…
Quantum walks are a well-established model for the study of coherent transport phenomena and provide a universal platform in quantum information theory. Dynamically influencing the walker's evolution gives a high degree of flexibility for…
We consider the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) for one-dimensional linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) on a finite interval in space. The control is applied as an additive forcing term to PDEs. Existing methods for…
This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…
In this article, we present a general methodology for control problems driven by the Brownian motion filtration including non-Markovian and non-semimartingale state processes controlled by mutually singular measures. The main result of this…
We revisit the work of Roger Brockett on controllability of the Liouville equation, with a particular focus on the following problem: Given a smooth controlled dynamical system of the form $\dot{x} = f(x,u)$ and a state-space diffeomorphism…
We consider the optimal control problem of transferring population between states of a quantum system where the coupling proceeds only via intermediate states that are subject to decay. We pose the question whether it is generally possible…
In this work, we investigate the small-time global controllability properties of a class of fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations driven by a bilinear control posed on the one-dimensional torus. The controls depend only on time and act…