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We present the construction of an exponentially accurate time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecular quantum mechanics. We study molecular systems whose electron masses are held fixed and whose nuclear masses are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

We discuss a simple singular system in two dimension, two heavy particles interacting with a light particle via an attractive contact interaction. Although intuitively clear the actual application of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Haci Akbas , O. Teoman Turgut

We generalize the standard Born-Oppenheimer approximation to the case of open quantum systems. We define the zeroth order Born-Oppenheimer approximation of an open quantum system as the regime in which its effective Hamiltonian can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 X. L. Huang , X. X. Yi

In our previous paper [J. Chem.Phys. {\bf 137}, 22A544 (2012)] we argued that the Born-Oppenheimer approximation could not be based on an exact transformation of the molecular Schr\"{o}dinger equation. In this Comment we suggest that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Brian T Sutcliffe , R Guy Woolley

In this work, new finite difference schemes are presented for dealing with the upper-convected time derivative in the context of the generalized Lie derivative. The upper-convected time derivative, which is usually encountered in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Debora O. Medeiros , Hirofumi Notsu , Cassio M. Oishi

Study of far-from-equilibrium thermalization dynamics in quantum materials, including the dynamics of different types of quasiparticles, is becoming increasingly crucial. However, the inherent complexity of either the full quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Indrajit Wadgaonkar , Rishabh Jain , Marco Battiato

In this paper, we consider the time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation (BOA) of a classical quantum molecule involving a possibly large number of nuclei and electrons, described by a Schr\"odinger equation. In the spirit of Born and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Sebastian Gherghe , Iván Moyano , Israel Michael Sigal

This article concerns second-order time discretization of subdiffusion equations with time-dependent diffusion coefficients. High-order differentiability and regularity estimates are established for subdiffusion equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

Solutions in the form of series expansion, as the Born approximation, are very useful for describing time-independent scattering of quantum particles. In this work, it is mathematically demonstred that such solutions, when applied to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Sérgio L. Morelhão , Luis H. Avanci , Stefan Kycia

We discuss a simple singular system in one dimension, two heavy particles interacting with a light particle via an attractive contact interaction. It is natural to apply Born-Oppenheimer approximation to this problem. We present a detailed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Haci Akbas , O. Teoman Turgut

We compare two different approaches to the treatment of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and the introduction of time in quantum cosmology. One approach is based on the gauge-fixing procedure in theories with first-class constraints, while the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-30 Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Alessandro Tronconi , Tereza Vardanyan , Giovanni Venturi

We show that the usual Born-Oppenheimer type of approximation used in quantum gravity, in which a semiclassical time parameter emerges from a weak-coupling expansion of the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint, leads to a unitary theory at least up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Leonardo Chataignier

Motivated by a paper by B.T. Sutcliffe and R.G. Woolley, we present the main ideas used by mathematicians to show the accuracy of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecules. Based on mathematical works on this approximation for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Thierry Jecko

Born-Oppenheimer dynamics is shown to provide an accurate approximation of time-independent Schr\"odinger observables for a molecular system with an electron spectral gap, in the limit of large ratio of nuclei and electron masses, without…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Christian Bayer , Håkon Hoel , Petr Plecháč , Anders Szepessy , Raúl Tempone

This paper focuses on finding an approximate solution of a kind of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent perturbations. A formulation of the approximate solution of the equation is constructed, and then the existence of the formulation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Yan Luo , Kaicheng Sheng

We explore the possibility of modifying the Lewis-Riesenfeld method of invariants developed originally to find exact solutions for time-dependent quantum mechanical systems for the situation in which an exact invariant can be constructed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Andreas Fring , Rebecca Tenney

We consider the Born-Oppenheimer problem near conical intersection in two dimensions. For energies close to the crossing energy we describe the wave function near an isotropic crossing and show that it is related to generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Gordon , J. E. Avron

The paper discusses the applicability of WKB and Born (small perturbations) approximations in the problem of the backscattering of quantum particles and classical waves by one-dimensional smooth potentials with amplitudes small compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh , V. D. Freilikher , N. M. Makarov

The relativistic scattering of a spin-1/2 particle from an infinitely long solenoid is considered in the framework of covariant perturbation theory. The first order term agrees with the corresponding term in the series expansion of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boz , N. K. Pak

We develop time integration methods in low-rank representation that can adaptively adjust approximation ranks to achieve a prescribed accuracy, while ensuring that these ranks remain proportional to the corresponding best approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Markus Bachmayr , Matthieu Dolbeault , Polina Sachsenmaier
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