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On the basis of extensive numerical studies it is argued that there are strong analogies between the probabilistic behavior of quantum systems defined by Hermitian Hamiltonians and the deterministic behavior of classical mechanical systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-28 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook

Several methods in nonadiabatic molecular dynamics are based on Madelung's hydrodynamic description of nuclear motion, while the electronic component is treated as a finite-dimensional quantum system. In this context, the quantum potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 François Gay-Balmaz , Cesare Tronci

This paper focuses on the escape problem of a harmonically-forced classical particle from a purely-quartic truncated potential well. The latter corresponds to various engineering systems that involve purely cubic restoring force and absence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-20 Maor Farid

The most unstable quantum states and elementary particles possess more than a single decay channel. At the same time, it is well known that typically the decay law is not simply exponential. Therefore, it is natural to ask how to spot the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Francesco Giacosa , Przemysław Kościk , Tomasz Sowiński

A finite number of harmonic oscillators coupled to infinitely many environment oscillators is fundamental to the problem of understanding quantum dissipation of a small system immersed in a large environment. Exact operator solution as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

Quantum physics is a linear theory, so it is somewhat puzzling that it can underlie very complex systems such as digital computers and life. This paper investigates how this is possible. Physically, such complex systems are necessarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 George F R Ellis

I propose a novel interpretation of quantum theory, which I will call Environmental Determinacy-based (EnDQT). In contrast to the well-known interpretations of quantum theory, EnDQT has the benefit of not adding non-local,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Francisco Pipa

Without wasting time and effort on philosophical justifications and implications, we write down the conditions for the Hamiltonian of a quantum system for rendering it mathematically equivalent to a deterministic system. These are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Gerard t Hooft

We present a microscopic approach to quantum dissipation and sketch the derivation of the kinetic equation describing the evolution of a simple quantum system in interaction with a complex quantum system. A typical quantum complex system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aurel Bulgac , Giu Do Dand , Dimitri Kusnezov

Quantum systems with multiple degenerate classical harmonic minima exhibit new non-perturbative phenomena which are not present for the double-well and periodic potentials. The simplest characteristic example of this family is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Gerald V. Dunne , Tin Sulejmanpasic , Mithat Unsal

The decay rates of quasistable states in quantum field theories are usually calculated using instanton methods. Standard derivations of these methods rely in a crucial way upon deformations and analytic continuations of the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 Anders Andreassen , David Farhi , William Frost , Matthew D. Schwartz

A unified conceptual foundation of classical and quantum physics is given, free of undefined terms. Ensembles are defined by extending the `probability via expectation' approach of Whittle to noncommuting quantities. This approach carries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold Neumaier

A dynamical quantum model assigns an eigenstate to a specified observable even when no measurement is made, and gives a stochastic evolution rule for that eigenstate. Such a model yields a distribution over classical histories of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson

We numerically analyse quantum survival probability fluctuations in an open, classically chaotic system. In a quasi-classical regime, and in the presence of classical mixed phase space, such fluctuations are believed to exhibit a fractal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Italo Guarneri , Marcello Terraneo

The principle of energy conservation leads to a generalized choice of transition probability in a piecewise adiabatic representation of quantum(-classical) dynamics. Significant improvement (almost an order of magnitude, depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Alessandro Sergi , Francesco Petruccione

We consider a Parity-time (PT) invariant non-Hermitian quasi-exactly solvable (QES) potential which exhibits PT phase transition. We numerically study this potential in a complex plane classically to demonstrate different quantum effects.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Sushant S. Mahajan

Quantum plasma physics is a rapidly evolving research field with a very inter-disciplinary scope of potential applications, ranging from nano-scale science in condensed matter to the vast scales of astrophysical objects. The theoretical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Shabbir A. Khan , Michael Bonitz

We study the stability of quantum motion of classically regular systems in presence of small perturbations. Onthe base of a uniform semiclassical theory we derive the fidelity decay which displays a quite complexbehaviour, from Gaussian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wen-ge Wang , G. Casati , Baowen Li

We study the dynamics of a simple model for quantum decay, where a single state is coupled to a set of discrete states, the pseudo continuum, each coupled to a real continuum of states. We find that for constant matrix elements between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Ariel Amir , Yuval Oreg , Yoseph Imry

Quantum theory predicts probabilities as well as relative phases between different alternatives of the system. A unified description of both probabilities and phases comes through a generalisation of the notion of a density matrix for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Charis Anastopoulos