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Open many-body quantum systems have attracted renewed interest in the context of quantum information science and quantum transport with biological clusters and ultracold atomic gases. The physical relevance in many-particle bosonic systems…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-02 G. Kordas , D. Witthaut , P. Buonsante , A. Vezzani , R. Burioni , A. I. Karanikas , S. Wimberger

Simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems is a crucial task in quantum computing, offering wide-ranging applications but remaining computationally challenging. In this paper, we propose two quantum algorithms for simulating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Sirui Peng , Xiaoming Sun , Qi Zhao , Hongyi Zhou

We present the Reduced Operator Approximation: a simple, physically transparent and computationally efficient method of modelling open quantum systems. It employs the Heisenberg picture of the quantum dynamics, which allows us to focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Agnieszka Werpachowska

We introduce a general technique to compute finite temperature electronic properties by a novel covariant formulation of the electronic partition function. By using a rigorous variational upper bound to the free energy we are led to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-19 Guglielmo Mazzola , Andrea Zen , Sandro Sorella

Fast-forwarding refers to the ability to simulate a system of time $t$ using significantly fewer than $t$ queries or circuit depth. While various Hamiltonian systems are known to circumvent the no fast-forwarding theorem, analogous results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhong-Xia Shang , Dong An , Changpeng Shao

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 present a framework for simulating the open dynamics of spin-boson systems by combining variational non-Gaussian states with a quantum trajectories approach. We apply this method to a generic spin-boson Hamiltonian that has both…

We revisit the Born-Markov approximation for an open quantum system by considering a microscopic model of the bath, namely, the Bose-Hubbard chain in the parameter region where it is chaotic in the sense of Quantum Chaos. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrey R. Kolovsky

We explore the extension of quantum cosmology outside the homogeneous approximation, using the formalism of loop quantum gravity. We introduce a model where some of the inhomogeneous degrees of freedom are present, providing a tool for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Carlo Rovelli , Francesca Vidotto

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

A system of two bilinearly coupled harmonic oscillators has been solved analytically by using the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) product wavefunction ansatz and the phase-space bound trajectory approach [J. S. Molano et al., Chem. Phys. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Carlos A. Arango

This text is a short introduction to the physics of driven-dissipative many-body systems, focusing on a few selected topics. Beyond its more ``historical'' interest in the study of atomic physics and quantum optics, presently the modeling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Fabrizio Minganti , Alberto Biella

We present the Born-Markov approximated Redfield quantum master equation (RQME) description for an open system of non-interacting particles (bosons or fermions) on an arbitrary lattice of $N$ sites in any dimension and weakly connected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-16 Archak Purkayastha , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

Experiments have demonstrated that vibrational strong coupling between molecular vibrations and light modes can significantly change molecular properties, such as ground-state reactivity. Theoretical studies towards the origin of this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Marit R. Fiechter , Jeremy O. Richardson

We consider an open quantum system which contains unstable states. The time evolution of the system can be described by an effective non-hermitian Hamiltonian H_{eff}, in accord with the Wigner--Weisskopf approximation, and an additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Reinhold A. Bertlmann , Walter Grimus , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

A stochastic representation of the dynamics of open quantum systems, suitable for non-perturbative system-reservoir interaction, non-Markovian effects and arbitrarily driven systems is presented. It includes the case of driving on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jürgen T. Stockburger

Nick Huggett, James Ladyman, and Karim Thebault (HLT) have presented a comprehensive article examining the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (BOA). Their central objective is to challenge our position on the matter-namely, that the BOA…

We present a new paradigm for the dynamical simulation of interacting many-boson open quantum systems. The method relies on a variational ansatz for the $n$-boson density matrix, in terms of a superposition of photon-added coherent states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 David S. Schlegel , Fabrizio Minganti , Vincenzo Savona

Within the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) framework, the real-time NEO time-dependent density functional theory (RT-NEO-TDDFT) approach enables the simulation of coupled electronic-nuclear dynamics. In this approach, the electrons and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Tao E. Li , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer