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We combine a quantum dynamical propagator that explicitly accounts for quantum mechanical time ordering with optimal control theory. After analyzing its performance with a simple model, we apply it to a superconducting circuit under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Daniel Basilewitsch , Lutz Marder , Christiane P. Koch

A propagation method for the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation was studied leading to a general scheme of solving ode type equations. Standard space discretization of time-dependent pde's usually results in system of ode's of the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 Hillel Tal-Ezer , Ronnie Kosloff , Ido Schaefer

The accurate solution of dissipative quantum dynamics plays an important role on the simulation of open quantum systems. Here we propose a machine-learning-based universal solver for the hierarchical equations of motion, one of the most…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiaji Zhang , Lipeng Chen

The integrating factor and exponential time differencing methods are implemented and tested for solving the time-dependent Kohn--Sham equations. Popular time propagation methods used in physics, as well as other robust numerical approaches,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Daniel Kidd , Cody Covington , Kalman Varga

In this and subsequent paper arXiv:1011.5185 we develop a recursive approach for calculating the short-time expansion of the propagator for a general quantum system in a time-dependent potential to orders that have not yet been accessible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-09 Antun Balaz , Ivana Vidanovic , Aleksandar Bogojevic , Aleksandar Belic , Axel Pelster

Existing approaches to analogue quantum simulations of time-dependent quantum systems rely on perturbative corrections to quantum simulations of time-independent quantum systems. We overcome this restriction to perturbative treatments with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Boyuan Shi , Florian Mintert

We propose a unified approach for different exponential perturbation techniques used in the treatment of time-dependent quantum mechanical problems, namely the Magnus expansion, the Floquet--Magnus expansion for periodic systems, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Ana Arnal , Fernando Casas , Cristina Chiralt

We develop a fourth-order Magnus expansion based quantum algorithm for the simulation of many-body problems involving two-level quantum systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians, $\mathcal{H}(t)$. A major hurdle in the utilization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Guannan Chen , Mohammadali Foroozandeh , Chris Budd , Pranav Singh

In this paper we solve for the quantum propagator of a general time dependent system quadratic in both position and momentum, linearly coupled to an infinite bath of harmonic oscillators. We work in the regime where the quantum optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Twamley

Effective modeling and numerical spectral-based propagation schemes are proposed for addressing the challenges in time-dependent quantum simulations of systems ranging from atoms, molecules, and nanostructures to emerging nanoelectronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zuojing Chen , Eric Polizzi

We suggest an extension of the Hilbert Phase Space formalism, which appears to be naturally suited for application to the dissipative (open) quantum systems, such as those described by the non-stationary (time-dependent) Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Tigran Aivazian

We discuss some problems of dissipative chaos for open quantum systems in the framework of semiclassical and quantum distributions. For this goal, we propose a driven nonlinear oscillator with time-dependent coefficients, i.e. with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. V. Gevorgyan , A. R. Shahinyan , G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

We investigate the energy distribution and quantum thermodynamics in periodically driven polaritonic systems in the stationary state at room temperature. Specifically, we consider an exciton strongly coupled to a harmonic oscillator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Maicol A. Ochoa

With growing demand for time-domain simulations of correlated many-body systems, the development of efficient and stable integration schemes for the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is of keen interest in modern electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 David B. Williams-Young , Stephen Yuwono , A. Eugene DePrince , Chao Yang

Compared with time independent Hamiltonians, the dynamics of generic quantum Hamiltonians $H(t)$ are complicated by the presence of time ordering in the evolution operator. In the context of digital quantum simulation, this difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Jacob Watkins , Nathan Wiebe , Alessandro Roggero , Dean Lee

We present an approach for efficiently simulating strongly damped quantum systems subjected to periodic driving, employing a periodic matrix product operator representation of the influence functional. This representation enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Konrad Mickiewicz , Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

A quantum mechanical description of particle propagation on the discrete spacetime of a causal set is presented. The model involves a discrete path integral in which trajectories within the causal set are summed over to obtain a particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Johnston

Efficient simulation of quantum dynamics with time-dependent Hamiltonians is important not only for time-varying systems but also for time-independent Hamiltonians in the interaction picture. Such simulations are more challenging than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Di Fang , Diyi Liu , Shuchen Zhu

We investigate the potential of supervised machine learning to propagate a quantum system in time. While Markovian dynamics can be learned easily, given a sufficient amount of data, non-Markovian systems are non-trivial and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 James Nelson , Luuk Coopmans , Graham Kells , Stefano Sanvito

We prove existence of propagators for a time dependent Schr\"odinger equation with a new class of softened Coulomb potentials, which we allow to be time dependent, in the context of time dependent density functional theory. We compute…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Eric Stachura