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An open quantum system refers to a system, which is in turn coupled to an environment that can describe time irreversible dynamics through which the system evolves toward the thermal equilibrium state. We present a quantum mechanically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-02 Hideaki Takahashi , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Density functional theory is currently the most widely applied method in electronic structure theory. The Kohn-Sham method, based on a fictitious system of non-interacting particles, is the work horse of the theory. The particular form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hubertus J J van Dam

Pseudosupersymmetric quantum mechanics (PsSSQM), based upon the use of pseudofermions, was introduced in the context of a new Kemmer equation describing charged vector mesons interacting with an external constant magnetic field. Here we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Quesne , N. Vansteenkiste

We formulate a general method for the study of semiclassical-like dynamics in stable regions of a mixed phase-space, in order to theoretically study the dynamics of quantum accelerator modes. In the simplest case, this involves determining…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Bach , K. Burnett , M. B. d'Arcy , S. A. Gardiner

We shall present a new strategy for handling mean field limits of quantum mechanical systems. The new method is simple and effective. It is simple, because it translates the idea behind the mean field description of a many particle quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 Peter Pickl

Within exact electron density-functional theory, we investigate Kohn-Sham (KS) potentials, orbital energies, and non-interacting kinetic energies of the fractional ions of Li, C and F. We use quantum Monte Carlo densities as input, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Tim Gould , Julien Toulouse

This paper is a sequence of the work presented in [1], where, the principles of the general relativity have been used to formulate quantum wave equations taking into account the effect of the electromagnetic and strong interactions in the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. C. Barros

We investigate the potential of a quantum Boltzmann equation without momentum conservation for description of strongly correlated electron systems out of equilibrium. In a spirit similar to dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), the momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 Michael Wais , Martin Eckstein , Roland Fischer , Philipp Werner , Marco Battiato , Karsten Held

Quantum simulation is a potentially powerful application of quantum computing, holding the promise to be able to emulate interesting quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computing methods. Despite such promising applications, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Kaelyn J. Ferris , A. J. Rasmusson , Nicholas T. Bronn , Olivia Lanes

In a previous preprint (quant-ph/0012122) we introduced a ``contextual objectivity" formulation of quantum mechanics (QM). A central feature of this approach is to define the quantum state in physical rather than in mathematical terms, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Philippe Grangier

The implementation of the orbital minimization method (OMM) for solving the self-consistent Kohn-Sham (KS) problem for electronic structure calculations in a basis of non-orthogonal numerical atomic orbitals of finite-range is reported. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Fabiano Corsetti

We derive a closed equation of motion for the current density of an inhomogeneous quantum many-body system under the assumption that the time-dependent wave function can be described as a geometric deformation of the ground-state wave…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Xianlong Gao , Jianmin Tao , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

An experimental study of the applicability of mechanics equations to describing the process of equilibrium establishing in an isolated spin system was performed. The time-reversion effects were used at the experiments. It was demonstrated,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Skrebnev , R. N. Zaripov

Quantum computing has shown great potential in various quantum chemical applications such as drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Although significant progress has been made in quantum simulation of simple molecules,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Changsu Cao , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Han-Shi Hu , Hung Q. Pham , Dingshun Lv

We discuss a systematic construction of dimensionless quantum-mechanical equations. The process reduces the number of independent model parameters to a minimum and, at the same time, provides the natural units of length, energy, etc. in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Francisco M. Fernández

To leverage the redundancy between the electronic structure computed at each step of first-principles molecular dynamics, we present a data-driven modeling framework for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that bypasses the explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Jonas Kaufman , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

Recently, a new connection between density functional theory and kinetic theory has been proposed. In particular, it was shown that the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations can be reformulated as a macroscopic limit of the steady-state solution of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

Solutions of quaternionic quantum mechanics (QQM) are difficult to grasp, even in simple physical situations. In this article, we provide simple and understandable free particle quaternionic solutions, that can be easily compared to complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Sergio Giardino

The resources required to characterise the dynamics of engineered quantum systems-such as quantum computers and quantum sensors-grow exponentially with system size. Here we adapt techniques from compressive sensing to exponentially reduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 A. Shabani , R. L. Kosut , M. Mohseni , H. Rabitz , M. A. Broome , M. P. Almeida , A. Fedrizzi , A. G. White

Understanding how quantum materials return to equilibrium after being driven into excited states is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. A prototypical material, 1T-TaS$_2$, exhibits complex electronic textures made up of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Jaka Vodeb