Small-time bilinear control of Schrödinger equations with application to rotating linear molecules

Abstract

In [14] Duca and Nersesyan proved a small-time controllability property of nonlinear Schr ödinger equations on a d-dimensional torus T d . In this paper we study a similar property, in the linear setting, starting from a closed Riemannian manifold. We then focus on the 2-dimensional sphere S 2 , which models the bilinear control of a rotating linear top: as a corollary, we obtain the approximate controllability in arbitrarily small times among particular eigenfunctions of the Laplacian of S 2 .