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Quantum mechanical real-time tunneling through general scattering potentials is studied in the semiclassical limit. It is shown that the exact path integral of the real-time propagator is dominated in the long time sector by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Joachim Ankerhold , Markus Saltzer

A method for carrying out semiclassical initial value representation calculations using first-principles molecular dynamics (FP-SC-IVR) is presented. This method can extract the full vibrational power spectrum of carbon dioxide from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-14 Michele Ceotto , Sule Atahan , Sangwoo Shim , Gianfranco Tantardini , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In this work, we derived a semiclassical approximation for the matrix elements of a quantum propagator in coherent states (CS) basis that avoids complex trajectories, it only involves real ones. For that propose, we used the, symplectically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alejandro M. F Rivas

We study smooth, caustic-free, chaotic semiclassical dynamics on two-dimensional phase space and find that the dynamics can be approached by an iterative procedure which constructs an approximation to the exact long-time semiclassical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

We derive the semiclassical limit of the coherent state propagator for systems with two degrees of freedom of which one degree of freedom is canonical and the other a spin. Systems in this category include those involving spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Ribeiro , M. A. M. de Aguiar , A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

The simplest model of three coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) is investigated using a group theoretical method. The stationary solutions are determined using the SU(3) group under the mean field approximation. This semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Nemoto , C. A. Holmes , G. J. Milburn , W. J. Munro

The strongly interacting regime for attractive Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) tightly confined in an extended cylindrical trap is studied. For appropriately prepared, non-collapsing BECs, the ensuing dynamics are found to be governed by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-25 Alexander Tovbis , Mark A. Hoefer

We analyze the spectrum of the 3-site Bose-Hubbard model with periodic boundary conditions using a semiclassical method. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization is applied to an effective classical Hamiltonian which we derive using resonance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-16 A. P. Itin , P. Schmelcher

An atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is often described as a macroscopic object which can be approximated by a coherent state. This, on the surface, would appear to indicate that its behavior should be close to being classical. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-08-12 S. Choi , B. Sundaram

We describe an iterative approach to computing long-time semiclassical dynamics in the presence of chaos, which eliminates the need for summing over an exponentially large number of classical paths, and has good convergence properties even…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

Gaussian wavepackets are a popular tool for semiclassical analyses of classically chaotic systems. We demonstrate that they are extremely powerful in the semiquantal analysis of such systems, too, where their dynamics can be recast in an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Arjendu K. Pattanayak , William C. Schieve

An alternative methodology to investigate indirect polyatomic processes with quasi-classical trajectories is proposed, which effectively avoids any binning or weighting procedure while provides rovibrational resolution. Initial classical…

We numerically compare the semiclassical ``frozen Gaussian'' Herman-Kluk propagator [Chem. Phys. 91, 27 (1984)] and the ``thawed Gaussian'' propagator put forward recently by Baranger et al. [J. Phys. A 34, 7227 (2001)] by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Harabati , J. M. Rost , F. Grossmann

By revisiting the path-integral formulation of the Hubbard model, we propose a theoretical approach based on a semiclassical approximation employing an unconventional coherent-state representation. Within this framework, a subset of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-06 Yuki Yamasaki , Hidemaro Suwa , Cristian D. Batista , Shintaro Hoshino

The semiclassical approximation of coherent state path integrals is employed to study the dynamics of the Jaynes-Cummings model. Decomposing the Hilbert space into subspaces of given excitation quanta above the ground state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert

The spin coherent state path integral describing the dynamics of a spin-1/2-system in a magnetic field of arbitrary time-dependence is considered. Defining the path integral as the limit of a Wiener regularized expression, the semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert

The Gaussian Wave-Packet phase-space representation is used to show that the expansion in powers of $\hbar$ of the quantum Liouville propagator leads, in the zeroth order term, to results close to those obtained in the statistical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. W. Bund , S. S. Mizrahi , M. C. Tijero

We present a theoretical study of the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive inter-particle interactions in a double-well potential, using a restricted variational principle. Within such an approach, there is a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. W. Spekkens , J. E. Sipe

Evolution PDEs for dispersive waves are considered in both linear and nonlinear integrable cases, and initial-boundary value problems associated with them are formulated in spectral space. A method of solution is presented, which is based…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Degasperis , S. V. Manakov , P. M. Santini

We study the quantum propagator in the semiclassical limit with sharp confining potentials. Including the energy-dependent scattering phase due to sharp confining potential, the modified Van Vleck's formula is derived. We also discuss the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Chen , Tzay-Ming Hong , Hsiu-Hau Lin