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This report reviews recent progress in computing Kubo formulas for general interacting Hamiltonians. The aim is to calculate electric and thermal magneto-conductivities in strong scattering regimes where Boltzmann equation and Hall…

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The scattering matrix S of a ballistic chaotic cavity is the direct sum of a `classical' and a `quantum' part, which describe the scattering of channels with typical dwell time smaller and larger than the Ehrenfest time, respectively.…

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We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) on quantum devices must reconcile unitary gate evolution with the dissipative \emph{collision} step. In the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) class, we work in the common setting of \emph{modewise diagonal} moment…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Muhammad Idrees Khan , Sauro Succi , Hua-Dong Yao

Optimal transport (OT) finds a least cost transport plan between two probability distributions using a cost matrix defined on pairs of points. Unlike standard OT, which infers unstructured pointwise mappings, low-rank optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Henri Schmidt , Peter Halmos , Ben Raphael

We propose simple protocols for performing quantum noise spectroscopy based on the method of transfer tensor maps (TTM), [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110401 (2014)]. The TTM approach is a systematic way to deduce the memory kernel of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Yu-Qin Chen , Kai-Li Ma , Yi-Cong Zheng , Jonathan Allcock , Shengyu Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

General multivariate distributions are notoriously expensive to sample from, particularly the high-dimensional posterior distributions in PDE-constrained inverse problems. This paper develops a sampler for arbitrary continuous multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Sergey Dolgov , Karim Anaya-Izquierdo , Colin Fox , Robert Scheichl

In previous papers of this series, we presented a formalism able to account for both statistical equilibrium of a multilevel atom and coherent and incoherent scatterings (partial redistribution). aims: This paper provides theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 V. Bommier

In the Bloch sphere picture, one finds the coefficients for expanding a single-qubit density operator in terms of the identity and Pauli matrices. A generalization to $n$ qubits via tensor products represents a density operator by a real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

We discuss the time-convolutionless (TCL) projection operator approach to transport in closed quantum systems. The projection onto local densities of quantities such as energy, magnetization, particle number, etc. yields the reduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-26 Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Heinz-Juergen Schmidt

Semi-discrete optimal transport (SOT), which maps a continuous probability measure to a discrete one, is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications. Entropic regularization is often employed to solve the SOT problem, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Moaad Khamlich , Francesco Romor , Gianluigi Rozza

Quantum state tomography (QST), the process of reconstructing some unknown quantum state $\hat\rho$ from repeated measurements on copies of said state, is a foundationally important task in the context of quantum computation and simulation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Nathan Keenan , John Goold , Alex Nico-Katz

Excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting aggregates is highly efficient, yet whether quantum coherence plays an operational role in transport remains debated. A central challenge is that coherence is usually inferred from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Julia Liebert , Gregory D. Scholes

In the theory of optimal transport, the Knothe-Rosenblatt (KR) rearrangement provides an explicit construction to map between two probability measures by building one-dimensional transformations from the marginal conditionals of one measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Ricardo Baptista , Franca Hoffmann , Minh Van Hoang Nguyen , Benjamin Zhang

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) is a standard computational tool for describing chemical reactivity in systems with many degrees of freedom, including polymers, enzymes, and reacting molecules in complex solvents. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Alexander V. Mironenko , Gregory A. Voth

Path-integral techniques are a powerful tool used in open quantum systems to provide an exact solution for the non-Markovian dynamics. However, the exponential scaling of the tensor size with quantum memory length of these techniques limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 L. M. J. Hall , A. Gisdakis , E. A. Muljarov

We present efficient and scalable parallel algorithms for performing mathematical operations for low-rank tensors represented in the tensor train (TT) format. We consider algorithms for addition, elementwise multiplication, computing norms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Peter Benner

It is shown that under certain conditions the resonant transport in mesoscopic systems can be described by modified (quantum) rate equations, which resemble the optical Bloch equations with some additional terms. Detailed microscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. A. Gurvitz , Ya. S. Prager

Distortion Risk Measures (DRMs) capture risk preferences in decision-making and serve as general criteria for managing uncertainty. This paper proposes gradient descent algorithms for DRM optimization based on two dual representations: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jinyang Jiang , Bernd Heidergott , Jiaqiao Hu , Yijie Peng

In free-space Quantum Key Distribution in turbulent conditions, scattering and beam wandering cause intensity fluctuations which increase the detected signal-to-noise ratio. This effect can be mitigated by rejecting received bits when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Eleftherios Moschandreou , Brian J. Rollick , Bing Qi , George Siopsis