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Entropy-regularized optimal transport, which has strong links to the Schr\"odinger bridge problem in statistical mechanics, enjoys a variety of applications from trajectory inference to generative modeling. A major driver of renewed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-27 Anand Srinivasan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

A Schr\"{o}dinger bridge establishes a dynamic transport map between two target distributions via a reference process, simultaneously solving an associated entropic optimal transport problem. We consider the setting where samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Stefano Peluchetti

We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

This paper is concerned with an inverse random potential problem for the Schr\"odinger equation. The random potential is assumed to be a generalized Gaussian random function, whose covariance operator is a classical pseudo-differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

We investigate the controllability of quantum electrons trapped in a two-dimensional device, typically a MOS field-effect transistor. The problem is modeled by the Schr\"odinger equation in a bounded domain coupled to the Poisson equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Florian Méhats , Yannick Privat , Mario Sigalotti

For a fixed flow-based generative model under a small inference budget, sample quality can depend strongly on where the sampler spends its few function evaluations. Flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridges define probability paths, yet their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bruno Trentini , Dejan Stancevic , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong , Luca Ambrogioni

This paper's aim is threefold. First, using Feynman's path approach to the derivation of theclassical Schr{\"o}dinger's equation in [6] and by introducing a slight path (or wave) dependency ofthe action, we derive a new class of equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Ioana Ciotir , Dan Goreac , Juan Li , Xinru Zhang

This paper considers the optimal control problem for realizing logical gates in a closed quantum system. The quantum state is governed by Schrodinger's equation, which we formulate as a time-dependent Hamiltonian system in terms of the real…

In this paper, we study the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck bridge process (i.e. the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process conditioned to start and end at fixed points) constraints to have a fixed area under its path. We present both anticipative (in this case, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Alain Mazzolo

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

We revisit the work of Mitter and Newton on an information-theoretic interpretation of Bayes' formula through the Gibbs variational principle. This formulation allowed them to pose nonlinear estimation for diffusion processes as a problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Maxim Raginsky

In this work, we study a discrete Schr\"odinger bridge problem with partial marginal observations. A main difficulty compared to the classical Schr\"odinger bridge formulation is that our problem is not strictly convex and standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Michele Mascherpa , Victor Molnö , Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe , Johan Karlsson

We prove the approximate controllability of a bilinear Schr\"odinger equation modelling a two trapped ions system. A new spectral decoupling technique is introduced, which allows to analyze the controllability of the infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Esteban Paduro , Mario Sigalotti

Theoretical treatments of strong-field physics have long relied on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The most effective such treatments utilize a discrete spatial representation---a grid. Since most…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Youliang Yu , B. D. Esry

Schr\"odinger equation with given, {\it a priori} known current is formulated. A non-zero current density is maintained in the quantum system via a subsidiary condition imposed by vector, local Lagrange multiplier. Constrained minimization…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. S. Kosov

In this paper, we consider the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger on bounded two-dimensional domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In the absence of control, it is well-known that free solutions starting from initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Ludovick Gagnon , Kévin Le Balc'h

Metasurface inverse design is challenged by the intricate relationship between structural parameters and electromagnetic responses, as well as the high dimensionality of the optimization space. Local models, while commonly employed, quickly…

The master equation describing non-equilibrium one-dimensional problems like diffusion limited reactions or critical dynamics of classical spin systems can be written as a Schr\"odinger equation in which the wave function is the probability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Michel Droz , Malte Henkel , Vladimir Rittenberg

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

In this paper we discuss optimality conditions for abstract optimization problems over complex spaces. We then apply these results to optimal control problems with a semigroup structure. As an application we detail the case when the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna , Frédéric Bonnans , Axel Kröner