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Conventional approaches for controlling open quantum systems use coherent control which affects the system's evolution through the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics. Such control, although being extremely efficient for a large variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alexander Pechen , Herschel Rabitz

In this article we consider a 2-D quantum particle confined a disc whose radius can be deformed continuously in time. We study the problem of controllability of such a quantum particle via deformations of the initial disc, i.e., when we set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Iván Moyano

The recurrence phenomena of an initially well localized wave packet are studied in periodically driven power-law potentials. For our general study we divide the potentials in two kinds, namely tightly binding and loosely binding potentials.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shahid Iqbal , Qurat-ul-Ann , Farhan Saif

We present a theoretical proposal for preparing and manipulating a state of a single continuous-variable degree of freedom confined to a nonharmonic potential. By utilizing optimally controlled modulation of the potential's position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Piotr T. Grochowski , Hannes Pichler , Cindy A. Regal , Oriol Romero-Isart

This paper investigates the optimal control of a bilinear damped wave equation over an infinite time horizon. We establish the well-posedness of the controlled system and derive uniform energy estimates. The existence of optimal controls is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Redouane El Mezegueldy , Zakarya Dardour

We have studied the rich dynamics of a damped particle inside an external double-well potential under the influence of state-dependent time-delayed feedback. In certain regions of the parameter space, we observe multistability with the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-20 Álvaro G. López , Rahil N. Valani

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential in the two-mode approximation. The dissipation of energy from the condensate is described by the coupling to a thermal reservoir of non-condensate modes. As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Janne Ruostekoski , Dan F. Walls

We explore the helical quantum two-body problem i.e. two repulsively Coulomb interacting particles confined to move along a helix. The effective potential possesses a tunable number of potential wells superimposed on the repulsive Coulomb…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Peter Schmelcher

We report on the first direct observation of coherent control of single particle tunneling in a strongly driven double well potential. In our setup atoms propagate in a periodic arrangement of double wells allowing the full control of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Kierig , U. Schnorrberger , A. Schietinger , J. Tomkovic , M. K. Oberthaler

Many advanced quantum techniques feature non-Gaussian dynamics, and the ability to manipulate the system in that domain is the next-stage in many experiments. One example of meaningful non-Gaussian dynamics is that of a double-well…

We study the dynamical behavior of disordered quantum-well-based semiconductor superlattices where the disorder is intentional and short-range correlated. We show that, whereas the transmission time of a particle grows exponentially with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Enrique Diez , Angel Sanchez , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

Humans face the task of balancing dynamic systems near an unstable equilibrium repeatedly throughout their lives. Much research has been aimed at understanding the mechanisms of intermittent control in the context of human balance control.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-14 Arkady Zgonnikov , Ihor Lubashevsky

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

We investigate the short-, medium-, and long-term time dependence of wave packets in the infinite square well. In addition to emphasizing the appearance of wave packet revivals, i.e., situations where a spreading wave packet reforms with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. Robinett

We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

Bichromatic control, in terms of the amplitude and relative phase of the second field as control knobs, is an useful approach for controlling a variety of quantum processes. In this context, understanding the features of the control…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-01 Archana Shukla , Srihari Keshavamurthy

In this paper we establish several results on approximate controllability of a semilinear wave equation by making use of a single multiplicative control. These results are then applied to discuss the exact controllability properties for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Mohamed Ouzahra

We prove the exact controllability of two-dimensional hydroelastic waves in the periodic setting. We show that if the initial data and the final data are small, for exterior pressure whose support is any non-empty open set $\omega$, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

The dynamics of the population imbalance of bosons in a double-well potential is investigated from the point of view of many-body quantum mechanics in the framework of the two-mode model. For small initial population imbalances, coherent…

We present theory and calculations for coherent high-fidelity quantum control of many-particle states in semiconductor quantum wells. We show that coupling a two-electron double quantum dot to a terahertz optical source enables targeted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 E. Rasanen , T. Blasi , M. F. Borunda , E. J. Heller