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International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing

Control problems in a quantum mechanics

Roger W. Brockett

Published Mar 1, 2008• 2 citations
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Abstract

The mathematical structure basic to a number of problems in quantum control is presented and contrasted with more conventional control problems, both in formulation and solution technique. After a lengthy background some areas that seem promising for further development are discussed.
DOI
10.1109/isccsp.2008.4537360

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