Emeritus Professor Matthew James
Professor
ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
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+61 2 6125 4889
Areas of expertise
- Calculus Of Variations, Systems Theory And Control Theory 010203
- Quantum Information, Computation And Communication 020603
- Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified 099999
Biography
Research interests:
quantum control theory
Bio:
Professor James received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and the B.E. (Hon. I) in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1988. In 1988/1989 Professor James was Visiting Assistant Professor with the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. In 1991 he joined the Australian National University, Australia, where he served as Head of the Department of Engineering during 2001 and 2002. He has held visiting positions with the University of California, San Diego, Imperial College, London, and University of Cambridge. His research interests include quantum, nonlinear, and stochastic control systems. Professor James is a co-recipient (with Drs L. Bouten and R. Van Handel) of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize for 2007. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has previously served SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, and Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and held an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship during 2004-2008.
quantum control theory
Bio:
Professor James received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and the B.E. (Hon. I) in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1988. In 1988/1989 Professor James was Visiting Assistant Professor with the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. In 1991 he joined the Australian National University, Australia, where he served as Head of the Department of Engineering during 2001 and 2002. He has held visiting positions with the University of California, San Diego, Imperial College, London, and University of Cambridge. His research interests include quantum, nonlinear, and stochastic control systems. Professor James is a co-recipient (with Drs L. Bouten and R. Van Handel) of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize for 2007. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has previously served SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, and Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and held an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship during 2004-2008.
Available student projects
Symbolic Tools for Quantum Feedback Networks - Keywords: quantum networks
Feedback control of quantum systems - Keywords: control, quantum
Quantum communication networks - Keywords: quantum, communication, networks
Control of atom lasers - Keywords: atom laser quantum control
Publications
- Ribeiro de Carvalho, A, Hush, M & James, M 2012, 'Cavity driven by a single photon: Conditional dynamics and nonlinear phase shift', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 023806-1 to 023806-6.
- Bouten, L, Van Handel, R & James, M 2009, 'A Discrete Invitation to Quantum Filtering and Feedback Control', SIAM Review, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 239-316.
- Nurdin, H, James, M & Petersen, I 2009, 'Coherent quantum LQG control', Automatica, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 1837-1846.
- Gough, J & James, M 2009, 'Quantum Feedback Networks: Hamiltonian Formulation', Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 287, pp. 1109-1132.
- Gough, J & James, M 2009, 'The Series Product and Its Application to Quantum Feedforward and Feedback Networks', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2530-2544.
- Heurs, M, Petersen, I, James, M et al. 2009, 'Homodyne locking of a squeezer', Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 16, pp. 2465-2467.
- Yanagisawa, M & James, M 2009, 'Atom-laser coherence via multiloop feedback control', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 79, no. 023620, pp. 023620-1-8.
- Yanagisawa, M, Korotkov, A & James, M 2009, 'Regulation and Tracking of Two-Level Quantum Systems using Measurement Feedback', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Chinese Control Conference 2009, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 3821-3826.
- Gough, J, James, M & Nurdin, H 2009, 'Linear Quantum Feedback Networks with Squeezing Components', Joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Chinese Control Conference 2009, IEEE Inc, pp. 3793-3798.
- Nurdin, H, James, M & Doherty, A 2009, 'A network synthesis theorem for linear dynamical quantum stochastic systems', Joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Chinese Control Conference 2009, IEEE Inc, pp. 1439-1444.
- Nurdin, H, James, M & Doherty, A 2009, 'Network Synthesis of Linear Dynamical Quantum Stochastic Systems', SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 2686-2718.
- Yanagisawa, M & James, M 2008, 'Multi-loop feedback control for atom laser coherence', International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (SYSID 2008), ed. Conference Program Committee, Elsevier, Korea, pp. 8996-9001.
- Yamamoto, N, Nurdin, H, James, M et al 2008, 'Avoiding Entanglement sudden death via measurement feedback control in a quantum network', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 78, no. 4, p. 042339.
- Sridharan, S & James, M 2008, 'Minimum time control of spin systems via Dynamic programming', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), US, pp. 4558-4563.
- James, M & Gough, J 2008, 'Quantum Behaviours and Networks', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), US, pp. 4552-4557.
- Zhang, H, Huang, S & James, M 2008, 'H∞ control for discrete-time nonlinear switching systems', International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 1451-1481.
- James, M, Sridharan, S & Gu, M 2008, 'Gate complexity using dynamic programming', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 78, pp. 052327:1-6.
- James, M, Nurdin, H & Petersen, I 2008, 'H∞ Control of Linear Quantum Systems', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 1787-1803.
- Yamamoto, N, Nurdin, H, James, M et al 2008, 'Feedback control of entanglement in a linear quantum network: A case study', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), US, pp. 4528-4533.
- James, M, Petersen, I & Huntington, E 2008, 'Frequency locking of an Optical Cavity using LQG Integral Control', International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (SYSID 2008), ed. Conference Program Committee, Elsevier, Korea, p. 6.
- Nurdin, H, James, M & Petersen, I 2008, 'Quantum LQG Control with Quantum Mechanical Controllers', International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC WC 2008), Elsevier, Korea, p. 6.
- Wilson, S, Ribeiro de Carvalho, A, Hope, J et al. 2007, 'Effects of measurement back-action in the stabilization of a Bose-Einstein condensate through feedback', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 76, p. 013610.
- Bouten, L, Van Handel, R & James, M 2007, 'An introduction to quantum filtering', Siam Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 2199-41.
- D'Helon, C & James, M 2006, 'Stability, gain, and robustness in quantum feedback networks', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 73, pp. 053803-1 - 053803-13.
- Zhang, H & James, M 2006, 'Optimal control of hybrid systems and a system of quasi-variational inequalities', Siam Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 722-761.
- D'Helon, C, Doherty, A, James, M et al 2006, 'Quantum risk-sensitive control', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 3132-3137.
- James, M & Petersen, I 2006, 'Algebraic characterizations of dissipativity for linear quantum stochastic systems', International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2006), ed. Conference Program Committee, Conference Organising Committee, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 2022-2024.
- Zhang, H & James, M 2006, 'On computation of optimal switching HJB equations', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 2704-2709.
- James, M & Petersen, I 2006, 'H∞ control of linear quantum systems', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 3126-3131.
- Zhang, H & James, M 2006, 'Lâ?? bounded robust control for hybrid systems', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 4801-4806.
- James, M & Petersen, I 2005, 'A nonsmooth strict bounded real lemma', Systems and Control Letters, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 83-94.
- Zhang, H & James, M 2005, 'Optimal Control for a Class of Hybrid Systems Under Mixed Costs', 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2005, ed. F. Allgower, E.W. Bai, L.Basanez, G. De Nicolao, S. Dormido, D. Henrion, B.H. Ko, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), United States, pp. 60-65.
- Huang, S, James, M, Nesic, D et al 2005, 'Analysis of input-to-state stability for discrete time nonlinear systems via dynamic programming', Automatica, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2055-2065.
- Helton, J, James, M & McEneaney, W 2005, 'Reduced-Complexity Nonlinear H∞ Control of Discrete-Time Systems', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1808-1811.
- James, M 2005, 'A quantum Langevin formulation of risk-sensitive optimal control', Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. S198-S207.
- James, M, Smith, M & Vinnicombe, G 2005, 'Gap metrics, representations, and nonlinear robust stability', Siam Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1535-1582.
- Huang, S, James, M & Jiang, Z 2005, 'Lâ??-bounded robust control of nonlinear cascade systems', Systems and Control Letters, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 215-224.
- Kurniawan, I & James, M 2005, 'Pathwise solution of a class of stochastic master equations', Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 293-299.
- Huang, S, James, M, Nesic, D et al 2005, 'A Unified Approach to Controller Design for Achieving ISS and Related Properties', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1681-1697.
- Malcolm, W, Elliott, R & James, M 2005, 'Risk-sensitive filtering and smoothing for continuous-time Markov processes', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 1731-1738.
- Huang, Z, James, M, Nesic, D et al 2004, 'Measurement Feedback Controller Design to Achieve Input to State Stability', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2004, ed. Prof Weibo Gong, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 2515-2520.
- Kurniawan, I & James, M 2004, 'Pathwise Solution of a Class of Quantum Filtering Equations', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2004, ed. Prof Weibo Gong, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 3121-3125.
- Vinter, R, Clark, J & James, M 2004, 'The Interpretation of Discontinuous State Feedback Control Laws as Nonanticipative Control Strategies in Differential Games', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1360-1365.
- James, M 2004, 'Risk-sensitive optimal control of quantum systems', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 69, pp. 032108-1 to 032108-14.
- Huang, S & James, M 2003, 'l∞-Bounded Robustness for Nonlinear Systems: Analysis and Synthesis', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1875-1891.
- Huang, S, James, M, Nesic, D et al 2003, 'Analysis of Input to State Stability for Discrete Time Nonlinear Systems via Dynamic Programming', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2003, ed. Frank Lewis, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 5068-5073.
- Dower, P & James, M 2002, 'Worst case power generating capabilities of nonlinear systems', Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 13-41.
- James, M & Huang, S 2002, 'lâ??-Bounded Robust Control for Nonlinear Discrete Time Systems', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2002, ed. Douglas A Lawrence, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), New York, pp. 3748-3753.
- Boel, R, James, M & Petersen, I 2002, 'Robustness and Risk-Sensitive Filtering', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 451-460.
- Helton, J, James, M & McEneaney, W 2001, 'Nonlinear H-â?? Control: Practicality of Implementing the Cheap Sensor Case', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001, ed. T. Djaferis, General Chair, IEEE Control Systems Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 2746-2751.
- Malcolm, W, James, M & Elliott, R 2000, 'Risk Sensitive Filtering with Poisson Process Observations', Applied Mathematics and Optimization, vol. 41, pp. 387 - 402.
- James, M, Smith, M & Vinnicombe, G 2000, 'Gap Metrics, Representations, and Nonlinear Robust Stability', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2000, Casual Productions, South Australia, p. 1.
- Wei, L, Li, Z, James, M et al. 2000, 'A Minimax Robust Decoding Algorithm', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 46, no. No. 3, pp. 1158 - 1167.
- James, M 1999, Extending H-Infinity Control to Nonlinear Systems: Control of Nonlinear Systems to Achieve Performance Objectives, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, USA.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Robust Coherent Control Engineering for Quantum Systems and Networks (Secondary Investigator)
- Optimization Methods for Coherent Quantum Signal Estimation and Filtering (Primary Investigator)
