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The capacity for solving eigenstates with a quantum computer is key for ultimately simulating physical systems. Here we propose inverse iteration quantum eigensolvers, which exploit the power of quantum computing for the classical inverse…
Hybrid kinetic-MHD models describe the interaction of an MHD bulk fluid with an ensemble of hot particles, which is described by a kinetic equation. When the Vlasov description is adopted for the energetic particles, different Vlasov-MHD…
Hamiltonian splitting methods are an established technique to derive stable and accurate integration schemes in molecular dynamics, in which additional accuracy can be gained using force gradients. For rigid bodies, a tradition exists in…
Structure-preserving geometric algorithm for the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) equations is currently an active research topic. We show that spatially-discretized Hamiltonian systems for the VM equations admit a local energy conservation law in…
Constrained Hamiltonian systems are investigated by using the Hamilton-Jacobi method. Integration of a set of equations of motion and the action function is discussed. It is shown that we have two types of integrable systems: a) ${\it…
Determining the energy gap in a quantum many-body system is critical to understanding its behavior and is important in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. The challenge of determining the energy gap requires identifying both the…
A variational formulation of accelerated optimization on normed spaces was recently introduced by considering a specific family of time-dependent Bregman Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems whose corresponding trajectories converge to the…
Environmental management optimizing a long-run objective is an ergodic control problem whose resolution can be achieved by solving an associated non-local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation having an effective Hamiltonian. Focusing on…
The numerical cost of variational methods suggests using perturbative approaches to determine the electronic structure of molecular systems. In this work, a sequential construction of effective Hamiltonians drives the definition of…
We introduce a novel numerical method to integrate partial differential equations representing the Hamiltonian dynamics of field theories. It is a multi-symplectic integrator that locally conserves the stress-energy tensor with an excellent…
This mini-course provides a presentation of the method of characteristics to initial/boundary-value problems for systems of first-order partial differential equations and to Hamilton-Jacobi variational inequalities. In particular, these…
We show that a large class of dissipative systems can be brought to a canonical form by introducing complex co-ordinates in phase space and a complex-valued hamiltonian. A naive canonical quantization of these systems lead to non-hermitean…
Motivated by recent developments in Hamiltonian variational principles, Hamiltonian variational integrators, and their applications such as to optimization and control, we present a new Type II variational approach for Hamiltonian systems,…
One limitation of the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm is the large number of measurement steps required to estimate different terms in the Hamiltonian of interest. Unitary partitioning reduces this overhead by transforming the…
Quantum process characterization is a fundamental task in quantum information processing, yet conventional methods, such as quantum process tomography, require prohibitive resources and lack scalability. Here, we introduce an efficient…
In this article, we provide a numerical method based on fitted finite volume method to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation coming from stochastic optimal control problems. The computational challenge is due to the nature…
These lecture notes introduce some simple effective Hamiltonians (also known as semi-empirical models) that have widespread applications to solid state and molecular systems. They are aimed as an introduction to a beginning graduate…
This paper concerns a first-order algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems defined on switched-mode hybrid systems. The salient feature of the algorithm is that it avoids the computation of Fr\'echet or G\^ateaux…
Sampling-based inference has seen a surge of interest in recent years. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) has emerged as a powerful algorithm that leverages concepts from Hamiltonian dynamics to efficiently explore complex target distributions.…
We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…