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A recent proposal by Hallam et al. suggested using the chaotic properties of the semiclassical equations of motion, obtained by the time dependent variational principle (TDVP), as a characterization of quantum chaos. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Yochai Werman

A wide variety of physical systems ranging from the firing of neurons to eutrophication of lakes to the presence of Arctic summer sea ice exhibit a phenomenon known as tipping. In mathematical models, tipping can be caused by bifurcations,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel , Alice Nadeau , Andrew Roberts , Andrew Steyer

We study dissipative phase transitions in a system of two coupled fully-connected quantum Ising models interacting with an environment. The dynamics is governed by a Lindblad master equation combining coherent unitary evolution and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Bidyut Dey , Andrea Nava , Domenico Giuliano

Dynamical transitions, such as a change from bound to unbound motion, often occur as post-adiabatic crossings of a time-dependent separatrix. Whether or not any given orbit will include such a crossing transition typically depends…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Timo Eichmann , Eike P. Thesing , James R. Anglin

We introduce an efficient method TTN-HEOM for exactly calculating the open quantum dynamics for driven quantum systems interacting with highly structured bosonic baths by combining the tree tensor network (TTN) decomposition scheme to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Xinxian Chen , Ignacio Franco

Adequate simulation of non-adiabatic dynamics through conical intersection requires account for a non-trivial geometric phase (GP) emerging in electronic and nuclear wave-functions in the adiabatic representation. Popular mixed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Rami Gherib , Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Artur F. Izmaylov

The Landau--Zener (LZ) model describes a two-level quantum system that undergoes an avoided crossing. In the adiabatic limit, the transition probability vanishes. An auxiliary control field $H_\text{CD}$ can be reverse-engineered so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Georgios Theologou , Mikkel F. Andersen , Sandro Wimberger

Nuclear quantum effects and non-Born--Oppenheimer effects play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes, motivating the incorporation of such effects into dynamical simulations. In real-time nuclear--electronic orbital…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nicholas J. Boyer , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Simple route of engineering topological phases for any desired value of winding and Chern numbers is found in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by adding a further neighbor hopping term of varying distances. It is known that the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Rakesh Kumar Malakar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

This work is a pedagogical survey about the hierarchical equations of motion and their implementation with the tensor-train format. These equations are a great standard in non-perturbative non-Markovian open quantum systems. They are exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Etienne Mangaud , Amine Jaouadi , Alex Chin , Michèle Desouter-Lecomte

We present statistics of quantum jumps in the two-level system with landau-Zener Hamiltonian that undergoes a Markovian process. For the Landau-Zener model, which is successful in simulating adiabatic/non-adiabatic evolution and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Laleh Memarzadeh , Rosario Fazio

The hierarchical equations of motion technique has found widespread success as a tool to generate the numerically exact dynamics of non-Markovian open quantum systems. However, its application to low temperature environments remains a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Jeremy M. Moix , Jianshu Cao

Non-adiabatic chemical reactions involving continuous circularly polarized light (cw CPL) have not attracted as much attention as dynamics in unpolarized/linearly polarized light. However, including circularly (in contrast to linearly)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Zeyu Zhou , Yanze Wu , Xuezhi Bian , Joseph Eli Subotnik

This paper is concerned with classes of models of stochastic reaction dynamics with time-scales separation. We demonstrate that the existence of the time-scale separation naturally leads to the application of the averaging principle and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Plyasunov

Chemical relaxation phenomena, including photochemistry and electron transfer processes, form a vigorous area of research in which nonadiabatic dynamics plays a fundamental role. Here, we show that for nonadiabatic dynamics with two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yanze Wu , Xuezhi Bian , Jonathan Rawlinson , Robert G. Littlejohn , Joseph E. Subotnik

In a quantum system with a smoothly and slowly varying Hamiltonian, which approaches a constant operator at times $t\to \pm \infty$, the transition probabilities between adiabatic states are exponentially small. They are characterized by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Wilkinson , Michael A. Morgan

We develop a non-empirical scheme to search for the minimum-energy escape paths from the minima of the potential surface to unknown saddle points nearby. A stochastic algorithm is constructed to move the walkers up the surface through the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Ryosuke Akashi , Yuri S. Nagornov

It has been noticed that when the waiting time distribution exhibits a transition from an intermediate time power law decay to a long-time exponential decay in the continuous time random walk model, a transition from anomalous diffusion to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Zhe Xue , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou , Min Tang

A surface-hopping algorithm recently derived from the exact factorization approach, SHXF, [Ha, Lee, Min, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 1097 (2018)] introduces an additional term in the electronic equation of surface-hopping, which couples…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Patricia Vindel-Zandbergen , Spiridoula Matsika , Neepa T. Maitra

We examine the effect of nonlinearity at a level crossing on the probability for nonadiabatic transitions $P$. By using the Dykhne-Davis-Pechukas formula, we derive simple analytic estimates for $P$ for two types of nonlinear crossings. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Vitanov , K. -A. Suominen