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Optimal control theory is developed for the task of obtaining a primary objective in a subspace of the Hilbert space while avoiding other subspaces of the Hilbert space. The primary objective can be a state-to-state transition or a unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-13 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff , Christiane P. Koch

A quantum gate is realized by specific unitary transformations operating on states representing qubits. Considering a quantum system employed as an element in a quantum computing scheme, the task is therefore to enforce the pre-specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff

Quantum controls realize the unitary or nonunitary operations employed in quantum computers, quantum simulators, quantum communications, and other quantum information devices. They implement the desired quantum dynamics with the help of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 T S Mahesh , Priya Batra , M. Harshanth Ram

Living organisms exhibit remarkable adaptations across all scales, from molecules to ecosystems. We believe that many of these adaptations correspond to optimal solutions driven by evolution, training, and underlying physical and chemical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Julio R. Banga , Sebastian Sager

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

In this work, we formulate the problem of achieving in minimum-time perfect chiral resolution with bounded control fields, as an optimal control problem on two non-interacting spins-$1/2$. We assume the same control bound for the two Raman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Dionisis Stefanatos , Ioannis Thanopulos , Emmanuel Paspalakis

Both the shortest and the longest blowup time for a controlled system are considered. Existence result and maximum principle for optimal triple are established. Thanks to some monotonicity of the controlled system, some kinds of "the front…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Hongwei Lou , Weihan Wang

For a physical or biological model whose dynamics is described by a higher order difference equation $u_{n+1}=f(u_n,u_{n-1}, \dots, u_{n-k+1})$, we propose a version of a target oriented control $u_{n+1}=cT+(1-c)f(u_n,u_{n-1}, \dots,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Elena Braverman , Daniel Franco Leis

Optimal quantum control theory carries a huge promise for quantum technology. Its experimental application, however, is often hindered by imprecise knowledge of the its input variables, the quantum system's parameters. We show how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 D. J. Egger , F. K. Wilhelm

We demonstrate, numerically, the possibility of manipulating the spin states of molecular nanomagnets with shaped microwave pulses designed with quantum optimal control theory techniques. The state-to-state or full gate transformations can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Alberto Castro , Adrian Garcia Carrizo , David Zueco , Fernando Luis

The control of flying qubits carried by itinerant photons is ubiquitous in quantum networks. Beside their logical states, the shape of flying qubits must also be tailored for high-efficiency information transmission. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xue Dong , Xi Cao , Wen-Long Li , Guofeng Zhang , Zhihui Peng , Re-Bing Wu

The construction of feedback-like control fields for a kinetic model in phase space is investigated. The purpose of these controls is to drive an initial density of particles in the phase space to reach a desired cyclic trajectory and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Jan Bartsch , Alfio Borzi

This paper studies the time optimal control problem for systems of heat equations coupled by a pair of constant matrices. The control constraint is of the ball-type, while the target is the origin of the state space. We obtain an upper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Shulin Qin , Gengsheng Wang , Huaiqiang Yu

We propose a mean-field optimal control problem for the parameter identification of a given pattern. The cost functional is based on the Wasserstein distance between the probability measures of the modeled and the desired patterns. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Martin Burger , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Claudia Totzeck

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm of control, called a maximum hands-off control. A hands-off control is defined as a control that has a short support per unit time. The maximum hands-off control is the minimum support (or sparsest)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. Nagahara , D. E. Quevedo , D. Nesic

In quantum optimal control theory, kinematic bounds are the minimum and maximum values of the control objective achievable for any physically realizable system dynamics. For a given initial state of the system, these bounds depend on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Re-Bing Wu , Constantin Brif , Matthew R. James , Herschel Rabitz

A tracking type optimal control problem for a nonlinear and nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck equation which arises as the mean field limit of an interacting particle systems that is subject to distance dependent random fluctuations is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

Quantum Lyapunov control was developed in order to transform a quantum system from arbitrary initial states to a target state. The idea is to find control fields that steer the Lyapunov function to zero as $t\rightarrow \infty$, meanwhile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. C. Hou , M. A. Khan , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , X. X. Yi

Quantum technologies will ultimately require manipulating many-body quantum systems with high precision. Cold atom experiments represent a stepping stone in that direction: a high degree of control has been achieved on systems of increasing…

The optimal quantum control theory is employed to determine electric pulses capable of producing quantum gates with high fidelity (higher than 0.9997). Particularly, these quantum gates were chosen to perform the permutation algorithm (Z.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. M. Rivera-Ruiz , E. F. de Lima , F. F. Fanchini , V. Lopez-Richard , L. K. Castelano