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These QSDEs are driven by quantum Wiener processes of the external bosonic fields and are specified by the system Hamiltonian and system\u2013field coupling operators. We consider the system response to perturbations in these operators and introduce a transverse Hamiltonian which encodes the propagation of the perturbations through the unitary system\u2013field evolution. This approach provides an infinitesimal perturbation analysis tool which can be used for the development of optimality conditions in quantum control and filtering problems. As performance criteria, such settings employ quadratic (or more complicated) cost functionals of the system and field variables to be minimized over the energy and coupling parameters of system interconnections. 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