2010/09/01 by Alexander Pechen, A. Pechen, Herschel Rabitz +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Conjunction (astronomy) #Control (management) #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #Dimension (graph theory) #Feature (linguistics) #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Open quantum system #Quantum #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quantum computer #Quantum system #Range (aeronautics) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/91/60005
published as Europhysics Letters 91, 60005 (2010) · 10 pages
openalex publication_date 2010/09/01 · arxiv created 2010/11/04 · arxiv updated 2010/11/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Many phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology involve seeking an optimal control to maximize an objective for a classical or quantum system which is open and interacting with its environment. The complexity of finding an optimal control for maximizing an objective is strongly affected by the possible existence of sub-optimal maxima. Within a unified framework under specified conditions, control objectives for maximizing at a terminal-time physical observables of open classical and quantum systems are shown to be inherently free of sub-optimal maxima. This attractive feature is of central importance for enabling the discovery of controls in a seamless fashion in a wide range of phenomena transcending the quantum and classical regimes.