Global exact controllability of bilinear quantum systems on compact graphs and energetic controllability.

TLDR: The controllability of the bilinear Schrodinger equation on compact graphs was studied in this paper, where the authors introduced the notion of "energetic controLLability", which is useful when the global exact controllation fails.

Abstract: The aim of this work is to study the controllability of the bilinear Schrodinger equation on compact graphs. In particular, we consider the equation (BSE) $i\partial_t\psi=-\Delta\psi+u(t)B\psi$ in the Hilbert space $L^2(\mathscr{G},\mathbb{C})$, with $\mathscr{G}$ being a compact graph. The Laplacian $-\Delta$ is equipped with self-adjoint boundary conditions, $B$ is a bounded symmetric operator and $u\in L^2((0,T),\mathbb{R})$ with $T>0$. We provide a new technique leading to the global exact controllability of the (BSE) in $D(|\Delta|^{s/2})$ with $s\geq 3$. Afterwards, we introduce the "energetic controllability", a weaker notion of controllability useful when the global exact controllability fails. In conclusion, we develop some applications of the main results involving for instance star graphs.