We study the dissipative dynamics of a qubit that is afflicted by classical random telegraph noise and is subject to dynamical decoupling. We derive exact formulas for the qubit dynamics at arbitrary working points in the limit of infinitely strong control pulses bang-bang control , and we investigate in great detail the efficiency of the dynamical decoupling techniques for both Gaussian and no...

Second order sufficient optimality conditions for bang-bang control problems in a very general form have been obtained in [15, 21, 13, 12, 1]. These conditions require the positive definiteness (coercivity) of an associated quadratic form on the finite-dimensional critical cone. In the present paper, we investigate similar conditions for optimal control problems with a control variable having t...

We propose and analyze an inexact version of the modified subgradient (MSG) algorithm, which we call the IMSG algorithm, for nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization over a compact set. We prove that under an approximate, i.e. inexact, minimization of the sharp augmented Lagrangian, the main convergence properties of the MSG algorithm are preserved for the IMSG algorithm. Inexact minimization may a...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review aims to provide an update on the various practical applications of the STOP-Bang questionnaire in anesthesia, surgery, and perioperative medicine. RECENT FINDINGS The STOP-Bang questionnaire was originally validated as a screening tool to identify surgical patients who are at high-risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A recent meta-analysis confirmed that...