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We propose a ground-state ansatz for the Ohmic spin-boson model that improves upon the variational treatment of Silbey and Harris for biased systems in the scaling limit. In particular, it correctly captures the smooth crossover behaviour…

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In recent years, the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP) method based on the matrix product state (MPS) wave function formulation has shown its great power in performing large-scale quantum dynamics simulations for realistic…

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Dynamical decoupling is a technique aimed at suppressing the interaction between a quantum system and its environment by applying frequent unitary operations on the system alone. In the present paper, we analytically study the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alexander Hahn , Daniel Burgarth , Davide Lonigro

A generalized trial wave function termed as the "multi-D1 Ansatz" has been developed to study the ground state of the spin-boson model with simultaneous diagonal and off-diagonal coupling in the sub-Ohmic regime. Ground-state properties…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-21 Nengji Zhou , Lipeng Chen , Dazhi Xu , Vladimir Chernyak , Yang Zhao

We present the Basin Hopping with Skipping (BH-S) algorithm for stochastic optimisation, which replaces the perturbation step of basin hopping (BH) with a so-called skipping proposal from the rare-event sampling literature. Empirical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Maldon Goodridge , John Moriarty , Jure Vogrinc , Alessandro Zocca

We adapted the SWAP molecular dynamics algorithm for use in lattice Ising spin models. We dressed the spins with a randomly distributed length and we alternated long-range spin exchanges with conventional single spin flip Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-14 Greivin Alfaro Miranda , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Marco Tarzia

A class of surface hopping algorithms is studied comparing two recent Landau-Zener (LZ) formulas for the probability of nonadiabatic transitions. One of the formulas requires a diabatic representation of the potential matrix while the other…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey K. Belyaev , Caroline Lasser , Giulio Trigila

Spin measurement is studied as a unitary time evolution of the spin coupled to an environment representing the meter and the apparatus. Modelling the environment as a heat bath comprising only a finite number of boson modes and represented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Thomas Dittrich , Óscar Rodrí guez , Carlos Viviescas

Recently, the mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) was proposed as a method to simulate the non-adiabatic dynamics of two-level systems. It was shown that the method possesses many desirable qualities, both theoretically and through…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jan Vavřín

We present a dynamic subspace approach for efficiently approximating large-scale systems by learning time-continuous trajectories on the Grassmannian manifold. By parameterizing a low-dimensional basis as a geodesic path, the method allows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jack DeChant , Rudy Geelen , Shane A. McQuarrie , Johann Guilleminot

Associative memory Hamiltonian structure prediction potentials are not overly rugged, thereby suggesting their landscapes are like those of actual proteins. In the present contribution we show how basin-hopping global optimization can…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Michael C. Prentiss , David J. Wales , Peter G. Wolynes

The spin-boson (SB) model is a standard prototype for quantum dissipation, which we generalize in this work, to explore the dissipative effects on a one-dimensional spin-orbit (SO) coupled particle in the presence of a sub-ohmic bath. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Sudip Sinha , Subhasis Sinha , Sushanta Dattagupta

Fewest-switches surface hopping is studied in the context of quantum-classical Liouville dynamics. Both approaches are mixed quantum-classical theories that provide a way to describe and simulate the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics of…

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An extension of the CCS-method [Chem. Phys. 2004, 304, p. 103-120] for simulating non-adiabatic dynamics with quantum effects of the nuclei is put forward. The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the motion of the nuclei is solved…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Alexander Humeniuk , Roland Mitrić

The powerful molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is basically based on a picture that the atoms experience classical-like trajectories under the exertion of classical force field determined by the quantum mechanically solved electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang

In this paper, we will study the statistical behaviors of orbits. Firstly, we will show that for a dynamical systems have the shadowing property or almost specification property, the set of nonrecurrent points has full topological entropy.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Yiwei Dong , Xiaobo Hou , Wanshan Lin , Xueting Tian

The influence of dissipation on quantum tunneling in the spin-boson model with a sub-Ohmic bath is studied by a variational calculation. By examining the evolution of solutions of the variational equation with the coupling strength near the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hang Wong , Zhi-De Chen

Periodic one dimensional hopping model is useful to study the motion of microscopic particles, which lie in thermal noise environment. The mean velocity $V_N$ and diffusion constant $D_N$ of this model have been obtained by Bernard Derrida…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-06 Yunxin Zhang

Interacting spin-boson models encompass a large class of physical systems, spanning models with a single spin interacting with a bosonic bath -- a paradigm of quantum impurity problems -- to models with many spins interacting with a cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Naushad A. Kamar , Mohammad Maghrebi

Nonadiabatic dynamics methods are an essential tool for investigating photochemical processes. In the context of employing first principles electronic structure techniques, such simulations can be carried out in a practical manner using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Jonathan R. Mannouch , Aaron Kelly