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Model Hamiltonians with long-range interaction yield energies that are corrected taking into account the universal behavior of the electron-electron interaction at short range. Although the intention of the paper is to explore the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Andreas Savin

Early work extending the Kohn-Sham theory to excited states utilized an ensemble average of the Hamiltonian considered as a functional of the corresponding average density. We propose and develop an alternative that utilizes the matrix…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abraham Klein , Reiner M. Dreizler

A general algorithm has been given for the generation of Coherent and Squeezed states, in one-dimensional hamiltonians with shape invariant potential, obtained from the master function. The minimum uncertainty states of these potentials are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Jafarizadeh , A. Rostami

The quantum-classical correspondence between local minima on the classical energy landscape and excited eigenstates in the energy spectrum is studied within the context of many-body quantum spin systems. In mean-field approximations of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-23 Yang Wei Koh

This note deals with certain properties of convex functions. We provide results on the convexity of the set of minima of these functions, the behaviour of their subgradient set under restriction, and optimization of these functions over an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Miel Sharf , Daniel Zelazo

Based on the work of Gorling and that of Levy and Nagy, density-functional formalism for many Fermionic excited-states is explored through a careful and rigorous analysis of the excited-state density to external potential mapping. It is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

Effective Hamiltonians for doubly excited Heliums states based on approximate O(4) symmetry are revised. New quantum numbers for a 4D Harmonic Oscillator are assigned to Helium states with both electrons in the n=2 shell. An effective…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Torsten Victor Zache , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Quantum-mechanical initial conditions for the fluctuations of the geometry can be assigned in excess of a given physical wavelength. The two-point functions of the scalar and tensor modes of the geometry will then inherit corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

Pair vibrations are studied for a Hamiltonian with neutron-neutron, proton-proton and neutron-proton pairing. The spectrum is found to be rich in strongly correlated, low-lying excited states. Changing theratio of diagonal to off-diagonal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-09 R. R. Chasman , P. Van Isacker

Spatially extended systems can support local transient excitations in which just a part of the system is excited. The mechanisms reported so far are local excitability and excitation of a localized structure. Here we introduce an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-01 P. Parra-Rivas , M. A. Matias , P. Colet , L. Gelens , D. Walgraef , D. Gomila

We prove that certain nonlocal functionals defined on partitions made of measurable sets Gamma-converge to a local functional modeled on the perimeter in the sense of De Giorgi. Those nonlocal functionals involve generalized surface tension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

We derive ground state eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of various relativistic elliptic integrable models. The models we discuss appear in computations of superconformal indices of four-dimensional theories obtained by compactifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Belal Nazzal , Anton Nedelin , Shlomo S. Razamat

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We study general entanglement properties of the excited states of the one dimensional translational invariant free fermions and coupled harmonic oscillators. In particular, using the integrals of motion, we prove that these Hamiltonians…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Arash Jafarizadeh , M. A. Rajabpour

A system of two charged particles in a harmonic trap with additional magnetic field is considered. The problem is reduced to a single-particle one in relative coordinates. The ground- and lowest excited-state energies and wave functions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 Maciej Janowicz , Jan Mostowski

We use the techniques of effective field theory in an expanding universe to examine the effect of choosing an excited inflationary initial state built over the Bunch-Davies state on the CMB bi-spectrum. We find that even for Hadamard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 R. Holman , Andrew J. Tolley

The local minima of a quadratic functional depending on binary variables are discussed. An arbitrary connection matrix can be presented in the form of quasi-Hebbian expansion where each pattern is supplied with its own individual weight.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-12-23 Yakov Karandashev , Boris Kryzhanovsky , Leonid Litinskii

We study necessary conditions for the efficient simulation of both bipartite and multipartite Hamiltonians, which are independent of the eigenvalues and based on the algebraic-geometric invariants introduced in [1-2]. Our results indicate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hao Chen

A least action principle for damping motion has been previously proposed with a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian containing the energy dissipated by friction. Due to the space-time nonlocality of the Lagrangian, mathematical uncertainties…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Tongling Lin , Qiuping A. Wang

A variational calculation of the energy levels of a class of PT-invariant quantum mechanical models described by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian H= p^2 - (ix)^N with N positive and x complex is presented. Excellent agreement is obtained for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Carl Bender , Fred Cooper , Peter Meisinger , Van M. Savage