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The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

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We compare different treatments of the constraints in canonical quantum gravity. The standard approach on the superspace of 3--geometries treats the constraints as the sole carriers of the dynamic content of the theory, thus rendering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Adrian P. Gentle , Nathan D. George , Arkady Kheyfets , Warner A. Miller

A class of high-order canonical symplectic structure-preserving geometric algorithms are developed for high-quality simulations of the quantized Dirac-Maxwell theory based strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) and relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Qiang Chen , Jianyuan Xiao , Peifeng Fan

In this work we present the formal background used to develop the methods used in earlier works to extend the truncated Wigner representation of quantum and atom optics in order to address multi-time problems. The truncated Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 L I Plimak , M K Olsen

Diffraction, in the context of semiclassical mechanics, describes the manner in which quantum mechanics smooths over discontinuities in the classical mechanics. An important example is a billiard with sharp corners; its semiclassical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Niall D. Whelan

We describe quantum and classical Hamiltonian dynamics in a common Hilbert space framework, that allows the treatment of mixed quantum-classical systems. The analysis of some examples illustrates the possibility of entanglement between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 H. R. Jauslin , D. Sugny

We show how nonrelativistic many body techniques can be used to study quantum corrections to the classical limit, in particular of the $SU(2)$ Lipkin Model. We show that the quantum corrections are essentially of two types: unitary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Trindade dos Santos , M. C. Nemes

We illustrate how classical chaotic dynamics influences the quantum properties at mesoscopic scales. As a model case we study semiclassically coherent transport through ballistic mesoscopic systems within the Landauer formalism beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 Daniel Waltner , Klaus Richter

The canonical structure of supergravity with a cosmological constant is analyzed in 2 + 1 dimensions using the Dirac constraint formalism. The first class constraints are used to find two Bosonic and one Fermionic gauge symmetries that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 D. G. C. McKeon

Constrained symplectic quantization is a functional formulation of quantum field theory in which quantum fluctuations are sampled through a deterministic Hamiltonian flow in an auxiliary intrinsic time $\tau$. In this paper we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Francesco Scardino , Martina Giachello , Giacomo Gradenigo

Starting with the first-order singular Lagrangian, the canonical structures of the noncommutative quantum system on a submanifold embedded in the higher-dimensional Euclidean space are investigated with the projection operator method (POM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-24 M. Nakamura

We present a novel framework for optimal control in both classical and quantum systems. Our approach leverages the Dirac--Bergmann algorithm: a systematic method for formulating and solving constrained dynamical systems. In contrast to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Davit Aghamalyan , Aleek Maity , Varun Narasimhachar , V V Sreedhar

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the simulation of real-time dynamics in interacting quantum field theories coupled to classical fields, focusing on the self-consistent estimation of semiclassical backreaction. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Carlos Fulgado-Claudio , Daniel González-Cuadra , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Alejandro Bermudez

When quantum back-reaction by fluctuations, correlations and higher moments of a state becomes strong, semiclassical quantum mechanics resembles a dynamical system with a high-dimensional phase space. Here, systematic computational methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 Martin Bojowald , David Brizuela , Hector H. Hernandez , Michael J. Koop , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl

The semiclassical approximation for the partition function in Chern-Simons gauge theory is derived using the invariant integration method. Volume and scale factors which were undetermined and had to be fixed by hand in previous derivations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 David H. Adams

This paper summarizes a research program that has been underway for a decade. The objective is to find a fast and accurate scheme for solving quantum problems which does not involve a Monte Carlo algorithm. We use an alternative strategy…

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The three-disk system, which for many years has served as a paradigm for the usefulness of cycle expansion methods, represents an extremely hard problem to semiclassical quantization when the disks are moved closer and closer together,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Weibert , J. Main , G. Wunner

A quantitative test for the validity of the semi-classical approximation in gravity is given. The criterion proposed is that solutions to the semi-classical Einstein equations should be stable to linearized perturbations, in the sense that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul R. Anderson , Carmen Molina-Paris , Emil Mottola

Classical physics is reformulated as a constrained Hamiltonian system in the history phase space. Dynamics, i.e. the Euler-Lagrange equations, play the role of first-class constraints. This allows us to apply standard methods from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Larsson

Strategies intended to resolve the problem of time in quantum gravity by means of emergent or hidden timefunctions are considered in the arena of relational particle toy models. In situations with `heavy' and `light' degrees of freedom, two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Edward Anderson