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In this paper we apply an optimal control technique to derive control fields that transfer an electron between ends of a chain of donors or quantum dots. We formulate the transfer as an optimal steering problem, and then derive the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Jun Zhang , Loren Greenman , Xiaotian Deng , Ian M. Hayes , K. Birgitta Whaley

We investigate simultaneous estimation of multi-parameter quantum estimation with time-dependent Hamiltonians. We analytically obtain the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix for two-parameter in time-dependent three-level systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

We study a time minimization problem on the group of motions of a plane with admissible control in a half-disk. The considered control system describes a model of a car that can move forward on a plane and turn in place. Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Alexey Mashtakov

Infinite-dimensional linear conic formulations are described for nonlinear optimal control problems. The primal linear problem consists of finding occupation measures supported on optimal relaxed controlled trajectories, whereas the dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Didier Henrion , Edouard Pauwels

The minimization of energy-like cost functionals is addressed in the context of optimal control problems. For a general class of dynamical systems, with possibly unstable and nonlinear free dynamics, it is shown that a sequence of solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Sérgio S. Rodrigues

Inactive constraints do not contribute to the solution of an optimal control problem, but increase the problem size and burden the numerical computations. We present a novel strategy for handling inactive constraints efficiently by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Yuanbo Nie , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

We propose and investigate a novel solution strategy to efficiently and accurately compute approximate solutions to semilinear optimal control problems, focusing on the optimal control of phase field formulations of geometric evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 F. Yang , C. Venkataraman , V. Styles , A. Madzvamuse

In this paper we study the problem of designing periodic orbits for a special class of hybrid systems, namely mechanical systems with underactuated continuous dynamics and impulse events. We approach the problem by means of optimal control.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Sara Spedicato , Giuseppe Notarstefano

- In this paper we introduce a new method to solve fixed-delay optimal control problems which exploits numerical homotopy procedures. It is known that solving this kind of problems via indirect methods is complex and computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Riccardo Bonalli , Bruno Hérissé , Emmanuel Trélat

For the time optimal control on an invariant system on SU(2), with two independent controls and a bound on the norm of the control, the extremals of the maximum principle are explicit functions of time and the resulting differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

In this study, we theoretically analyzed a control protocol based on ``time-dependent resonance" in nearly adiabatic two-level quantum systems, demonstrating that it exhibits properties equivalent to adiabatic control. This protocol is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Takayuki Suzuki

We consider the optimal control problem in a two-qubit system with bounded amplitude. Two cases are studied: quantum state preparation and entanglement creation. Cost functions, fidelity and concurrence, are optimized over bang-off controls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Xikun Li

Shaped pulses obtained by optimal control theory often possess unphysically broad spectra. In principle, the spectral width of a pulse can be restricted by an additional constraint in the optimization functional. However, it has so far been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Daniel M. Reich , José P. Palao , Christiane P. Koch

Quantum optimal control theory (QOCT) can be used to design the shape of electromagnetic pulses that implement operations on quantum devices. By using non-trivially shaped waveforms, gates can be made significantly faster than those built…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alonso Hernández-Antón , Fernando Luis , Alberto Castro

We study the selective and robust time-optimal rotation control of several spin-1/2 particles with different offset terms. For that purpose, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle is applied to a model of two spins, which is simple enough for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Quentin Ansel , Steffen J. Glaser , Dominique Sugny

Quantum optimal control is central to designing spin manipulation pulses. Gradient-based pulse optimization can be facilitated by either accelerating gradient evaluation or enhancing the convergence rate. In this work, we accelerated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Mengjia He , Yongbo Deng , Burkhard Luy , Jan G. Korvink

Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

We show how additional constraints, restricting the spectrum of the optimized pulse or confining the system dynamics, can be used to steer optimization in quantum control towards distinct solutions. Our examples are multi-photon excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 José P. Palao , Daniel M. Reich , Christiane P. Koch

We develop an asymptotical control theory for one of the simplest distributed (infinite dimensional) oscillating systems, namely, for a closed string under a bounded load applied to a single distinguished point. We find exact classes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Lev Lokutsievskiy , Alexander Ovseevich