Optimal control in a quantum cooling problem

DOI10.1016/j.aml.2011.11.020zbMath1250.49043MaRDI QIDQ452903

Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Peter Salamon, Anatoly M. Tsirlin

Publication date: 18 September 2012

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2011.11.020

zbMATH Keywords

control theory; Pontryagin's maximum principle; quantum harmonic oscillator; von Neumann entropy; singular control problem; bang-bang solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49K20: Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations

49J30: Existence of optimal solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.)

49S05: Variational principles of physics