Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

The development of estimation and control theories for quantum systems is a fundamental
task for practical quantum technology. This vision article presents a brief introduction to …

Optimal control theory is a powerful mathematical tool, which has known a rapid
development since the 1950s, mainly for engineering applications. More recently, it has …

It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering
it provides a systematic way for driving a dynamical system from a given initial state into a …

The control of individual quantum systems is now a reality in a variety of physical settings.
Feedback control is an important class of control methods because of its ability to reduce the …

The introduction of control theory in quantum mechanics has created a rich, new
interdisciplinary scientific field, which is producing novel insight into important theoretical …

The advent of quantum devices, which exploit the two essential elements of quantum
physics, coherence and entanglement, has sparked renewed interest in the control of open …

We consider the problem of steering a linear dynamical system with complete state
observation from an initial Gaussian distribution in state-space to a final one with minimum …

In the last years, a number of theoretical and numerical tools have been developed by a
thriving community formed by people coming from different backgrounds—condensed …

Reservoir computing is a temporal information processing system that exploits artificial or
physical dissipative dynamics to learn a dynamical system and generate the target time …