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The Hamiltonian of a linearly driven two-level system, or qubit, in the standard rotating frame contains non-commuting terms that oscillate at twice the drive frequency, $\omega$, rendering the task of analytically finding the qubit's time…

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Time dependent density matrix renormalization group (TD-DMRG) has become one of the cutting edge methods of quantum dynamics for complex systems. In this paper, we comparatively study the accuracy of three time evolution schemes in TD-DMRG,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Weitang Li , Jiajun Ren , Zhigang Shuai

Wave packet molecular dynamics (WPMD) has recently received a lot of attention as a computationally fast tool to study dynamical processes in warm dense matter beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. These techniques, typically, employ…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 William A. Angermeier , Thomas G. White

Simulation and analysis of multidimensional dynamics of a quantum non-Hmeritian system is a challenging problem. Gaussian wavepacket dynamics has proven to be an intuitive semiclassical approach to approximately solving the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Amartya Bose

Interacting quantum spin models are remarkably useful for describing different types of physical, chemical, and biological systems. Significant understanding of their equilibrium properties has been achieved to date, especially for the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Johannes Schachenmayer , Alexander Pikovski , Ana Maria Rey

We study quantum tunneling in an asymmetric double-well potential using a dynamical systems--based approach rooted in the Ehrenfest formalism. In this framework, the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet is governed by a hierarchy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Swetamber Das , Arghya Dutta

We have studied wavepacket dynamics in the Razavy hyperbolic double-well (DW) potential which is coupled to a harmonic oscillator (HO) by linear and quadratic interactions. Taking into account the lowest two states of DW and $(N+1)$ states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Hideo Hasegawa

We present a systematic approach for the semiclassical treatment of many-body dynamics of interacting, open spin systems. Our approach overcomes some of the shortcomings of the recently developed discrete truncated Wigner approximation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Christopher D. Mink , David Petrosyan , Michael Fleischhauer

In this paper, we study two systems with a time-variable coefficient and general time-gradually-degenerate damping. More explicitly, we construct the Riemann solutions to the time-variable coefficient Zeldovich approximation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Richard De la cruz , Wladimir Neves

Driving quantum systems periodically in time plays an essential role in the coherent control of quantum states. The rotating wave approximation (RWA) is a good approximation technique for weak and nearly-resonance driven fields. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Byoung-moo Ann , Wouter Kessels , Gary. A. Steele

Our goal in this paper is to initiate the rigorous investigation of wave turbulence and derivation of wave kinetic equations (WKE) for water waves models. This problem has received intense attention in recent years in the context of…

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The weak equivalence principle of gravity is examined at the quantum level in two ways. First, the position detection probabilities of particles described by a non-Gaussian wave-packet projected upwards against gravity around the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 P. Chowdhury , D. Home , A. S. Majumdar , S. V. Mousavi , M. R. Mozaffari , S. Sinha

Weight-adjusted inner products are easily invertible approximations to weighted $L^2$ inner products. These approximations can be paired with a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization to produce a time-domain method for wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Jesse Chan

We analyze wavepacket propagation in traveling wave tubes (TWTs) analytically and numerically. TWT design in essence comprises a pencil-like electron beam in vacuum interacting with an electromagnetic wave guided by a slow-wave structure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kasra Rouhi , Filippo Capolino , Alexander Figotin

We construct a class of variational methods for the study of open quantum systems based on Gaussian ansatzes for the quantum trajectory formalism. Gaussianity in the conjugate position and momentum quadratures is distinguished from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Wouter Verstraelen , Michiel Wouters

In this paper we examine the deviations from Gaussianity for two types of random variable converging to a normal distribution, namely sums of random variables generated by a deterministic discrete time map and a linearly damped variable…

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Mathematical methods previously used (Phillies, J. Chem. Phys., 122 224905 (2005)) to interpret quasielastic light scattering spectroscopy (QELSS) spectra are here applied to relate diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) spectra to the moments…

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Over the last couple of decades, there has been a surge in various approaches to multiple-point statistics simulation, commonly referred to as MPS. These methods have aimed to improve several critical aspects of realism in the results,…

We calculate the Wigner quasi-probability distribution for position and momentum, P_W^(n)(x,p), for the energy eigenstates of the standard infinite well potential, using both x- and p-space stationary-state solutions, as well as visualizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Belloni , M. A. Doncheski , R. W. Robinett

The discrete truncated Wigner approximation (DTWA) is a powerful tool for analyzing dynamics of quantum spin systems. Since the DTWA includes the leading-order quantum corrections to a mean-field approximation, it is naturally expected that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-27 Masaya Kunimi , Kazuma Nagao , Shimpei Goto , Ippei Danshita