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This paper considers a version of the Wiener filtering problem for equalization of passive quantum linear quantum systems. We demonstrate that taking into consideration the quantum nature of the signals involved leads to features typically not encountered in classical equalization problems. Most significantly, finding a mean-square optimal quantum equalizing filter amounts to solving a nonconvex constrained optimization problem. We discuss two approaches to solving this problem, both involving a relaxation of the constraint. In both cases, unlike classical equalization, there is a threshold on the variance of the noise below which an improvement of the mean-square error cannot be guaranteed.
We study a class of systems whose parameters are driven by a Markov chain in reverse time. A recursive characterization for the second moment matrix, a spectral radius test for mean square stability and the formulas for optimal control are given. Our results are determining for the question: is it possible to extend the classical duality between filtering and control of linear systems (whose matrices are transposed in the dual problem) by simply adding the jump variable of a Markov jump linear system. The answer is positive provided the jump process is reversed in time.
The paper considers the problem of equalization of passive linear quantum systems. While our previous work was concerned with the analysis and synthesis of passive equalizers, in this paper we analyze coherent quantum equalizers whose annihilation (respectively, creation) operator dynamics in the Heisenberg picture are driven by both quadratures of the channel output field. We show that the characteristics of the input field must be taken into consideration when choosing the type of the equalizing filter. In particular, we show that for thermal fields allowing the filter to process both quadratures of the channel output may not improve mean square accuracy of the input field estimate, in comparison with passive filters. This situation changes when the input field is `squeezed.
Outliers can contaminate the measurement process of many nonlinear systems, which can be caused by sensor errors, model uncertainties, change in ambient environment, data loss or malicious cyber attacks. When the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is applied to such systems for state estimation, the outliers can seriously reduce the estimation accuracy. This paper proposes an innovation saturation mechanism to modify the EKF toward building robustness against outliers. This mechanism applies a saturation function to the innovation process that the EKF leverages to correct the state estimation. As such, when an outlier occurs, the distorting innovation is saturated and thus prevented from damaging the state estimation. The mechanism features an adaptive adjustment of the saturation bound. The design leads to the development robust EKF approaches for continuous- and discrete-time systems. They are proven to be capable of generating bounded-error estimation in the presence of bounded outlier disturbances. An application study about mobile robot localization is presented, with the numerical simulation showing the efficacy of the proposed design. Compared to existing methods, the proposed approaches can effectively reject outliers of various magnitudes, types and durations, at significant computational efficiency and without requiring measurement redundancy.
In quantum engineering, faults may occur in a quantum control system, which will cause the quantum control system unstable or deteriorate other relevant performance of the system. This note presents an estimator-based fault-tolerant control design approach for a class of linear quantum stochastic systems subject to fault signals. In this approach, the fault signals and some commutative components of the quantum system observables are estimated, and a fault-tolerant controller is designed to compensate the effect of the fault signals. Numerical procedures are developed for controller design and an example is presented to demonstrate the proposed design approach.
In this paper, we study dynamical quantum networks which evolve according to Schrodinger equations but subject to sequential local or global quantum measurements. A network of qubits forms a composite quantum system whose state undergoes unitary evolution in between periodic measurements, leading to hybrid quantum dynamics with random jumps at discrete time instances along a continuous orbit. The measurements either act on the entire network of qubits, or only a subset of qubits. First of all, we reveal that this type of hybrid quantum dynamics induces probabilistic Boolean recursions representing the measurement outcomes. With global measurements, it is shown that such resulting Boolean recursions define Markov chains whose state-transitions are fully determined by the network Hamiltonian and the measurement observables. Particularly, we establish an explicit and algebraic representation of the underlying recursive random mapping driving such induced Markov chains. Next, with local measurements, the resulting probabilistic Boolean dynamics is shown to be no longer Markovian. The state transition probability at any given time becomes dependent on the entire history of the sample path, for which we establish a recursive way of computing such non-Markovian probability transitions. Finally, we adopt the classical bilinear control model for the continuous Schrodinger evolution, and show how the measurements affect the controllability of the quantum networks.