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2202
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Overview

Ugo Boscain is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to research in physics, mathematics, and applied mathematics. Their work primarily falls within the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Mathematics.

The main subfields of Boscain's research include:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Geometry and Topology

Boscain's primary topics of work cover areas such as:

  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
  • Geometric and Algebraic Topology
  • Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics

The scientist has published numerous papers in a variety of academic venues with frequent publications in arXiv (Cornell University), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), and Communications Physics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ugo Boscain include:

  • Quantum Optimal Control in Quantum Technologies. Strategic Report on Current Status, Visions and Goals for Research in Europe, 2022, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • Full quantum control of enantiomer-selective state transfer in chiral molecules despite degeneracy, 2022, Communications Physics
  • Classical and Quantum Controllability of a Rotating Symmetric Molecule, 2021, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Effective adiabatic control of a decoupled Hamiltonian obtained by rotating wave approximation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Ensemble qubit controllability with a single control via adiabatic and rotating wave approximations, 2022, Journal of Differential Equations

Boscain collaborates frequently with a select group of researchers, including:

  • Mario Sigalotti
  • Eugenio Pozzoli
  • Christiane P. Koch
  • Daniele Cannarsa
  • Ivan Beschastnyi

Best Publications

  • Training Schrödinger’s cat: quantum optimal control

    Steffen J. Glaser;Ugo Boscain;Tommaso Calarco;Christiane P. Koch

  • Training Schr"odinger's cat: quantum optimal control

    Stefffen J. Glaser;Ugo Boscain;Tommaso Calarco;Christiane P. Koch

  • Optimal control in laser-induced population transfer for two- and three-level quantum systems

    Ugo Boscain;Grégoire Charlot;Jean-Paul Gauthier;Stéphane Guérin

  • Time minimal trajectories for a spin 1∕2 particle in a magnetic field

    Ugo Boscain;Paolo Mason

  • Stability of planar switched systems: the linear single, input case

    U. Boscain

  • Introduction to Riemannian and Sub-Riemannian geometry

    Andrei A. Agrachev;Davide Barilari;Ugo Boscain

  • The intrinsic hypoelliptic Laplacian and its heat kernel on unimodular Lie groups

    Andrei A. Agrachev;Ugo Boscain;Jean-Paul Gauthier;Francesco Rossi

  • Introduction to the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for Quantum Optimal Control

    Ugo Boscain;Mario Sigalotti;Dominique Sugny

  • Controllability of the discrete-spectrum Schrödinger equation driven by an external field

    Thomas Chambrion;Paolo Mason;Mario Sigalotti;Mario Sigalotti;Ugo Boscain

  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Sub-Riemannian Geometry

    Andrei Agrachev;Davide Barilari;Ugo Boscain

  • A Gauss-Bonnet-like formula on two-dimensional almost-Riemannian manifolds

    Andrei A. Agrachev;Ugo Boscain;Mario Sigalotti

  • Invariant Carnot-Caratheodory Metrics on $S^3$, $SO(3)$, $SL(2)$, and Lens Spaces

    Ugo Boscain;Francesco Rossi pt

  • NONISOTROPIC 3-LEVEL QUANTUM SYSTEMS: COMPLETE SOLUTIONS FOR MINIMUM TIME AND MINIMUM ENERGY

    Ugo Boscain;Thomas Chambrion;Grégoire Charlot

  • A weak spectral condition for the controllability of the bilinear Schrödinger equation with application to the control of a rotating planar molecule

    Ugo V. Boscain;Ugo V. Boscain;Ugo V. Boscain;Marco Caponigro;Thomas Chambrion;Thomas Chambrion;Mario Sigalotti

  • Common Polynomial Lyapunov Functions for Linear Switched Systems

    Paolo Mason;Ugo Boscain;Yacine Chitour

  • A weak spectral condition for the controllability of the bilinear Schr"odinger equation with application to the control of a rotating planar molecule

    Ugo Boscain;Marco Caponigro;Thomas Chambrion;Mario Sigalotti

  • A note on stability conditions for planar switched systems

    Moussa Balde;Ugo V. Boscain;Paolo Mason

  • On the K + P Problem for a Three-Level Quantum System: Optimality Implies Resonance

    U. Boscain;T. Chambrion;J.-P. Gauthier

  • The Laplace-Beltrami operator in almost-Riemannian Geometry

    Ugo Boscain;Ugo Boscain;Camille Laurent

  • On the Hausdorff volume in sub-Riemannian geometry

    Andrei A. Agrachev;Davide Barilari;Ugo Boscain

  • Hypoelliptic Diffusion and Human Vision: A Semidiscrete New Twist

    Ugo V. Boscain;Roman A. Chertovskih;Jean-Paul Gauthier;A. O. Remizov

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei A. Agrachev
Andrei A. Agrachev International School for Advanced Studies
Benedetto Piccoli
Benedetto Piccoli Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ronnie Kosloff
Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz Princeton University
Burkhard Luy
Burkhard Luy Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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