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We examine the question of whether the formal expressions of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be applied to time independent non-dissipative systems that are not in true thermodynamic equilibrium and are nonergodic. By assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-09 Stephen R. Williams , Denis J. Evans

Stoquastic Hamiltonians are characterized by the property that their off-diagonal matrix elements in the standard product basis are real and non-positive. Many interesting quantum models fall into this class including the Transverse field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Sergey Bravyi

In this work, we derive exact solutions of a dynamical equation, which can represent all two-level Hermitian systems driven by periodic $N$-step driving fields. For different physical parameters, this dynamical equation displays various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Zhi-Cheng Shi , Ye-Hong Chen , Wei Qin , Yan Xia , X. X. Yi , Shi-Biao Zheng , Franco Nori

The quantum dynamics of open many-body systems poses a challenge for computational approaches. Here we develop a stochastic scheme based on the positive P phase-space representation to study the nonequilibrium dynamics of coupled spin-boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephan Mandt , Darius Sadri , Andrew A. Houck , Hakan E. Türeci

We present an essentially exact numerical method for modelling flux qubit chains subject to charge and flux noise. We define an essentially exact method as one that introduces errors that are completely controlled such that they can be made…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick , Jack Raymond , Malcolm P. Kennett

The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…

Stochastic trajectory optimization methods like STOMP enable planning with non-differentiable costs, offering substantial flexibility over gradient-based approaches. We show that STOMP implicitly minimizes the KL divergence from a Boltzmann…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hongzhe Yu , Zinuo Chang , Yongxin Chen

In this work, we consider a probability representation of quantum dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems with the use of pseudostochastic maps acting on true probability distributions. These probability distributions are obtained…

We introduce a numerical tensor-network method to compute the statistics of the charge transferred across an interface partitioning an interacting one-dimensional many-body lattice system with $U(1)$ symmetry. Our approach is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Mark T. Mitchison

A prominent tool to study the dynamics of open quantum systems is the reduced density matrix. Yet, approaching open quantum systems by means of state vectors has well known computational advantages. In this respect, the physical meaning of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Devashish Pandey , Enrique Colomés , Guillermo Albareda , Xavier Oriols

Path-independent (PI) quantum control has recently been proposed to integrate quantum error correction and quantum control [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110503 (2020)], achieving fault-tolerant quantum gates against ancilla errors. Here we reveal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Wen-Long Ma , Shu-Shen Li , Liang Jiang

Nonadiabatic quantum-classical mapping approaches have significantly gained in popularity in the past several decades because they have acceptable accuracy while remaining numerically tractable even for large system sizes. In the recent few…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Haifeng Lang , Philipp Hauke

We study the possibility of applying statistical mechanics to generally covariant quantum theories with a vanishing Hamiltonian. We show that (under certain appropiate conditions) this makes sense, in spite of the absence of a notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Merced Montesinos , Carlo Rovelli

The imaginary-time path integral representation of the canonical partition function of a quantum system and non-equilibrium work fluctuation relations are combined to yield methods for computing free energy differences in quantum systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramses van Zon , Lisandro Hernandez de la Pena , Gilles H. Peslherbe , Jeremy Schofield

A resolution of identity approach to explicitly correlated congruent transformed Hamiltonian (CTH) is presented. One of the principle challenges associated with the congruent transformation of the many-electron Hamiltonian is the generation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mike Bayne , John Drogo , Arindam Chakraborty

A nonperturbative theory is developed, aiming at an exact and efficient evaluation of a general quantum system interacting with arbitrary bath environment at any temperature and in the presence of arbitrary time-dependent external fields.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

Convergence of path integral simulations requires a substantial number of beads when quantum effects are significant. Traditional Trotter scaling approaches estimate the continuum limit through extrapolation, however they are restricted to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-28 Sabry G Moustafa

The calculation of quantum canonical time correlation functions is considered in this paper. Transport properties, such as diffusion and reaction rate coefficients, can be determined from time integrals of these correlation functions.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-17 Ali Nassimi , Raymond Kapral

In these notes, we elucidate some subtle aspects of coherent-state path integrals, focusing on their application to the equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum many-particle systems. These subtleties emerge when evaluating path integrals in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-19 Luca Salasnich , Cesare Vianello

The mapping approach addresses the mismatch between the continuous nuclear phase space and discrete electronic states by creating an extended, fully continuous phase space using a set of harmonic oscillators to encode the populations and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Maximilian A. C. Saller , Aaron Kelly , Jeremy O. Richardson