Spin Dynamics: A Paradigm for Time Optimal Control on Compact Lie Groups. - Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke; Knut Hüper; Martin Kleinsteuber; Y. Liu (J. Glob. Optim., 2006)

An EnestrÖm-Kakeya Theorem for Hermitian Polynomial Matrices. - Gunther Dirr; Harald K. Wimmer (IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2007)

Accessibility of a Class of Generalized Double-Bracket Flows. - Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke (Commun. Inf. Syst., 2008)

Global observability of real analytic systems. - Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke; Jens Jordan (ECC, 2009)

Riemannian Optimization on Tensor Products of Grassmann Manifolds: Applications to Generalized Rayleigh-Quotients. - O. Curtef; Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke (SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 2012)

Controllability Aspects of Quantum Dynamics: A Unified Approach for Closed and Open Systems. - Indra Kurniawan; Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke (IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2012)

Illustrating the Geometry of Coherently Controlled Unital Open Quantum Systems. - Corey O'Meara; Gunther Dirr; Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen (IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2012)

Separable Lyapunov functions for monotone systems. - Anders Rantzer; Björn Rüffer; Gunther Dirr (CDC, 2013)

Newton Methods for the Optimal Control of Closed Quantum Spin Systems. - Gabriele Ciaramella; Alfio Borzì; Gunther Dirr; Daniel Wachsmuth (SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 2015)

Accessibility of bilinear networks of systems: control by interconnections. - Gunther Dirr; Uwe Helmke; Frederike Rüppel (Math. Control. Signals Syst., 2016)

Quantum Systems Theory Viewed from Kossakowski-Lindblad Lie Semigroups - and Vice Versa. - Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen; Gunther Dirr; Robert Zeier (Open Syst. Inf. Dyn., 2017)

Reachable Sets from Toy Models to Controlled Markovian Quantum Systems. - Gunther Dirr; Frederik vom Ende; Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen (CDC, 2019)

Reachability in Infinite-Dimensional Unital Open Quantum Systems with Switchable GKS-Lindblad Generators. - Frederik vom Ende; Gunther Dirr; Michael Keyl; Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen (Open Syst. Inf. Dyn., 2019)

Exploring the Limits of Controlled Markovian Quantum Dynamics with Thermal Resources. - Frederik vom Ende; Emanuel Malvetti; Gunther Dirr; Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen (Open Syst. Inf. Dyn., 2023)

Compactness of Fixed Point Maps and the Ball-Marsden-Slemrod Conjecture. - Gunther Dirr (SIAM J. Control. Optim., 2023)

Reachability, Coolability, and Stabilizability of Open Markovian Quantum Systems with Fast Unitary Control. - Emanuel Malvetti; Frederik vom Ende; Gunther Dirr; Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen (SIAM J. Control. Optim., 2025)