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The relationship between the mean-field approximations in various interacting models of statistical physics and measures of classical and quantum correlations is explored. We present a method that allows us to bound the total amount of…

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Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

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We study the kinetic mean-field limits of the discrete systems of interacting particles used for halftoning of images in the sense of continuous-domain quantization. Under mild assumptions on the regularity of the interacting kernels we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Massimo Fornasier , Jan Haskovec , Gabriele Steidl

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is one of the most widely-used methods to treat accurately electron correlation effects in ab-initio real material calculations. Many modern large-scale implementations of DMFT in electronic structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Evan Sheridan , Cedric Weber , Evgeny Plekhanov , Christopher Rhodes

We derive a general mean-field theory of inhomogeneous polymer dynamics; a theory whose form has been speculated and widely applied, but not heretofore derived. Our approach involves a functional integral representation of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Glenn H. Fredrickson , Henri Orland

The Barker-Henderson perturbation theory is a bedrock of liquid-state physics, providing quantitative predictions for the bulk thermodynamic properties of realistic model systems. However, this successful method has not been exploited for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-03 S. M. Tschopp , H. D. Vuijk , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

In the stochastic mean-field approach, an ensemble of initial conditions is considered to incorporate correlations beyond the mean-field. Then each starting pont is propagated separately using the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Denis Lacroix , Sakir Ayik , Bulent Yilmaz , Kouhei Washiyama

The quantum theory of fields is largely based on studying perturbations around non-interacting, or free, field theories, which correspond to a collection of quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillators. The quantum theory of an ordinary fluid is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Ben Gripaios , Dave Sutherland

We review some possible improvements of mean field theory for application to nuclear binding systematics. Up to now, microscopic theory has been less successful than models starting from the liquid drop in describing accurately the global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 G. F. Bertsch , K. Hagino

We develop the continuum mechanics of quantum many-body systems in the linear response regime. The basic variable of the theory is the displacement field, for which we derive a closed equation of motion under the assumption that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Jianmin Tao , Xianlong Gao , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

The current generation of covariant mean-field models has had many successes in calculations of bulk observables for medium to heavy nuclei, but there remain many open questions. New challenges are confronted when trying to systematically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 R. J. Furnstahl

We analyze the mean-field limit of a stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equation arising in quantum optimal control and mean-field games, where N interacting particles undergo continuous indirect measurement. For the open quantum system described…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Anne de Bouard , Gaoyue Guo , Théo Hérouard

Although real-world complex systems typically interact through sparse and heterogeneous networks, analytic solutions of their dynamics are limited to models with all-to-all interactions. Here, we solve the dynamics of a broad range of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-28 Fernando L. Metz

A quantum field theoretic formulation of the dynamics of the Contact Process on a regular graph of degree z is introduced. A perturbative calculation in powers of 1/z of the effective potential for the density of particles phi(t) and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Christophe Deroulers , Rémi Monasson

In this thesis we deal with different aspects of quantum field theory, particularly in non-perturbative but also perturbative regimes, applied to the intellectual construction that is the Standard Model for Particle Physics (SM), but also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-25 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

We present an efficient ab initio dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) implementation for quantitative simulations in solids. Our DMFT scheme employs ab initio Hamiltonians defined for impurities comprising the full unit cell or a supercell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-05 Tianyu Zhu , Zhi-Hao Cui , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The meaning of statistical experiments with single microsystems in quantum mechanics is discussed and a general model in the framework of non-relativistic quantum field theory is proposed, to describe both coherent and incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Lanz , B. Vacchini

Open quantum Dicke models are paradigmatic systems for the investigation of light-matter interaction in out-of-equilibrium quantum settings. Albeit being structurally simple, these models can show intriguing physics. However, obtaining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-15 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. -A. Wu , M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar , L. J. Sham

The quantum dynamics of an electron in a uniform magnetic field is studied for geometries corresponding to integrable cases. We obtain the uniform asymptotic approximation of the WKB energies and wavefunctions for the semi-infinite plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Spehner , R. Narevich , E. Akkermans