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The intuitive classical space-time picture breaks down in quantum gravity, which makes a comparison and the development of semiclassical techniques quite complicated. Using ingredients of the group averaging method to solve constraints one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Bojowald , Parampreet Singh , Aureliano Skirzewski

This paper introduces a novel method for approximating the dynamics of a large autonomous system projected onto a fixed subspace. The core contribution is a novel recursive algorithm to construct an effective time-dependent generator that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Tommaso Grigoletto

Envisioned by Richard Feynman in the early 1980s, quantum simulation has received dramatic impetus thanks to the development of a variety of plateforms able to emulate a wide class of quantum Hamiltonians. During the past decade, most of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-09 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

The staggered quantum walk is a type of discrete-time quantum walk model without a coin which can be generated on a graph using particular partitions of the graph nodes. We design Hamiltonians for potential realization of the staggered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jalil Khatibi Moqadam , Ali T. Rezakhani

Recently a new formulation of quantum mechanics has been introduced, based on signed classical field-less particles interacting with an external field by means of only creation and annihilation events. In this paper, we extend this novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Jean Michel Sellier , K. G. Kapanova

A modification of the Fokker action is proposed, which allows one to formulate the covariant quantum theory of the charge system, in which the proper time of each particle serves as the evolution parameter and the particles themselves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Natalia Gorobey , Alexander Lukyanenko , A. V. Goltsev

The variational principle of quantum mechanics is the backbone of hybrid quantum computing for a range of applications. However, as the problem size grows, quantum logic errors and the effect of barren plateaus overwhelm the quality of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Harish J. Vallury , Michael A. Jones , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We introduce an optimisation method for variational quantum algorithms and experimentally demonstrate a 100-fold improvement in efficiency compared to naive implementations. The effectiveness of our approach is shown by obtaining…

An extended variational principle providing the equations of motion for a system consisting of interacting classical, quasiclassical and quantum components is presented, and applied to the model of bilinear coupling. The relevant dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grigorescu

Each scheme of state reconstruction comes down to parametrize the state of a quantum system by expectation values or probabilities directly measurable in an experiment. It is argued that the time evolution of these quantities provides an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Stefan Weigert

We introduce an approach for quantum computing in continuous time based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamic invariants. This approach allows, under certain conditions, for the design of quantum algorithms running on a nonadiabatic regime. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 M. S. Sarandy , E. I. Duzzioni , R. M. Serra

This thesis contains an analysis of the problem of time in quantum cosmology and its application to a cosmological minisuperspace model. In the first part, we introduce the problem of time and the theoretical foundations. In the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 Lucía Menéndez-Pidal

In recent years, the application of machine learning to physics has been actively explored. In this paper, we study a method for estimating the ground-state energy of quantum Hamiltonians by applying data-driven Koopman analysis within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Nobuyuki Okuma

In some of the earliest work on quantum mechanical computers, Feynman showed how to implement universal quantum computation by the dynamics of a time-independent Hamiltonian. I show that this remains possible even if the Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Andrew M. Childs

After revealing difficulties of the standard time-dependent perturbation theory in quantum mechanics mainly from the viewpoint of practical calculation, we propose a new quasi-canonical perturbation theory. In the new theory, the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

Discovering pragmatic and efficient approaches to construct $\varepsilon$-approximations of quantum operators such as real (imaginary) time-evolution propagators in terms of the basic quantum operations (gates) is challenging. Prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Yan Wang , Sarah Chehade , Eugene Dumitrescu

Quantum walk is one of the main tools for quantum algorithms. Defined by analogy to classical random walk, a quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum process on a graph. Both random and quantum walks can be defined either in continuous or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Childs

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

Even though quantum systems in energy eigenstates do not evolve in time, they can exhibit correlations between internal degrees of freedom in such a way that one of the internal degrees of freedom behaves like a clock variable, and thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Serge Massar , Philippe Spindel , Andrés F. Varón , Christof Wunderlich

A variational principle enabling one to compute individual Floquet states of a periodically time-dependent quantum system is formulated, and successfully tested against the benchmark system provided by the analytically solvable model of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Nils Krüger