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This paper aims to devise the shape of the external electromagnetic field that drives the spin dynamics of radical pairs to a quantum coherent state through maximization of the triplet-born singlet yield in biochemical reactions. The model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ugur G. Abdulla , Jose H. Rodrigues , Jean-Jacques Slotine

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

In this paper, we study simple splines on a Riemannian manifold $Q$ from the point of view of the Pontryagin maximum principle (PMP) in optimal control theory. The control problem consists in finding smooth curves matching two given tangent…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Paula Balseiro , Alejandro Cabrera , Teresinha J. Stuchi , Jair Koiller

We propose an analysis of the time-optimal control of a dissipative two-level quantum system whose dynamics is governed by the Lindblad equation. This simple system allows one to use tools of geometric control theory and to construct its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 D. Sugny , C. Kontz , H. R. Jauslin

A formalism based on Pontryagin's maximum principle is applied to determine the time-optimal protocol that drives a general initial state to a target state by a Hamiltonian with limited control, i.e., there is a single control field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yebin Wang

We investigate a time and energy minimization optimal control problem for open quantum systems, whose dynamics is governed through the Lindblad (or Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) master equation. The dissipation is Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar , Rafal Wisniewski

In this study, we address a control-constrained optimal control problem pertaining to the transformation of quantum states. Our objective is to navigate a quantum system from an initial state to a desired target state while adhering to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

A family of optimal control problems for a single and two coupled spinning particles in the Euler-Lagrange formalism is discussed. A characteristic of such problems is that the equations controlling the system are implicit and a reduction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 M. Delgado-Téllez , A. Ibort , T. Rodríguez de la Peña , R. Salmoni

This paper develops numerical methods for optimal control of mechanical systems in the Lagrangian setting. It extends the theory of discrete mechanics to enable the solutions of optimal control problems through the discretization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Fernando Jimenez , Marin Kobilarov , David Martin de Diego

We experimentally and theoretically study the thermodynamically optimal control of interacting multiple-particle systems, focusing on collections of colloidal particles individually confined in optical traps. We investigate protocols that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Samuel Monter , Lars T. Stutzer , Sarah A. M. Loos , Clemens Bechinger

A stochastic procedure is developed which allows one to express Pontryagin's maximum principle for dissipative quantum system solely in terms of stochastic wave functions. Time-optimal controls can be efficiently computed without computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yanting Ma , Yebin Wang

We provide a framework for high-order discretizations of nonlinear scalar convection-diffusion equations that satisfy a discrete maximum principle. The resulting schemes can have arbitrarily high order accuracy in time and space, and can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

Topological order offers possibilities for processing quantum information which can be immune to imperfections. However, the question of its stability out of equilibrium is relevant for experiments, where coupling to an environment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Dawid Paszko , Dominic C. Rose , Marzena H. Szymańska , Arijeet Pal

We propose an optimal control strategy to generate maximally entangled states in bipartite quantum systems. Leveraging the Pontryagin Principle, we derive time-dependent control fields that maximize the entanglement measure, specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar , Rafal Wisniewski

We investigate the optimal control of open quantum systems, in particular, the mutual influence of driving and dissipation. A stochastic approach to open-system control is developed, using a generalized version of Krotov's iterative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Rebecca Schmidt , Antonio Negretti , Joachim Ankerhold , Tommaso Calarco , Jürgen T. Stockburger

We establish a geometric Pontryagin maximum principle for discrete time optimal control problems on finite dimensional smooth manifolds under the following three types of constraints: a) constraints on the states pointwise in time, b)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Mishal Assif P K , Debasish Chatterjee , Ravi Banavar

This paper develops a bridge between bi-Hamiltonian structures of Poisson-Lie type, contact Hamiltonian dynamics, and the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) formalism for quantum open systems. On the classical side, we consider…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Leonardo Colombo , Asier López-Gordón

Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

The standard practice in modeling dynamics and optimal control of a large population, ensemble, multi-agent system represented by it's continuum density, is to model individual decision making using local feedback information. In comparison…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Kaivlaya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The continuous dynamical system approach to deep learning is explored in order to devise alternative frameworks for training algorithms. Training is recast as a control problem and this allows us to formulate necessary optimality conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Qianxiao Li , Long Chen , Cheng Tai , Weinan E