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We present a variational formulation of electrodynamics using de Rham even and odd differential forms. Our formulation relies on a variational principle more complete than the Hamilton principle and thus leads to field equations with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Antonio De Nicola , Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

We present a general description of the propagation properties of quantum gravity modified electrodynamics characterized by constitutive relations up to second order in the correction parameter. The effective description corresponds to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Santiago A. Martinez , R. Montemayor , Luis F. Urrutia

An emissivity formula is derived using the generalised Fermi-Weizacker-Williams method of virtual photons which accounts for the recoil the charged particle experiences as it emits radiation. It is found that through this derivation the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. L. Martins , M. Vranic , T. Grismayer , J. Vieira , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel Saucedo , Uday Lamba , Hasitha Mahabaduge

We extend the gauge invariant variational approach of Phys. Rev. D52 (1995) 3719, hep-th/9408081, to theories with fermions. As the simplest example we consider the massless Schwinger model in 1+1 dimensions. We show that in this solvable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 William E. Brown , Juan P. Garrahan , Ian I. Kogan , Alex Kovner

We present a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method that works equally well for the ground and the excited states of a quantum system. The method is based on the minimization of the variance of energy, as opposed to the energy itself in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Imran Khan , Bo Gao

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, variational quantum algorithms are promising approaches for solving optimization tasks by training parameterized quantum circuits with the aid of classical routines informed by…

We present a general method to study weak-coupling instabilities of a large class of interacting electron models in a controlled and unbiased way. Quite generally, the electron gas is unstable towards a superconducting state even in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Binz , D. Baeriswyl , B. Doucot

Reduced magnetohydrodynamics is a simplified set of magnetohydrodynamics equations with applications to both fusion and astrophysical plasmas, possessing a noncanonical Hamiltonian structure and consequently a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Emanuele Tassi , Daniela Grasso

We present a novel generic framework to approximate the non-equilibrium steady states of dissipative quantum many-body systems. It is based on the variational minimization of a suitable norm of the quantum master equation describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Hendrik Weimer

The problem of quantum harmonic oscillator with "regular+random" square frequency, subjected to "regular+random external force, is considered in framework of representation of the wave function by complex-valued random process. Average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Gevorkyan , A. A. Udalov

Taking advantage of the flexibility of the variational method with coordinate transformations, we derive a self-consistent set of equations of motion from a discretized Lagrangian to study kinetic plasmas using a Fourier decomposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 A. B. Stamm , B. A. Shadwick

Electron-molecule collisions play a central role in both natural processes and modern technological applications, particularly in plasma processing. Conventional computational strategies such as the R-matrix method have been widely adopted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Dario Picozzi , Jonathan Tennyson , Vincent Graves , Jimena D. Gorfinkiel

Simulating response properties of molecules is crucial for interpreting experimental spectroscopies and accelerating materials design. However, it remains a long-standing computational challenge for electronic structure methods on classical…

We consider the dynamics of a charged particle interacting with background electromagnetic field under the influence of linearized gravitational waves in the long wave-length and low-velocity limit. Following the prescription in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-08 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha

Variational quantum algorithms offer a promising framework for solving eigenvalue problems on near-term quantum hardware, yet their applicability beyond electronic structure calculations remains relatively unexplored. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Naman Khandelwal , Bikash K. Behera , Ashok Kumar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The form of an effective electron-electron interaction in a quantum wire with a large static dielectric constant is determined and the resulting properties of the electron liquid in such a one-dimensional system are described. The exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Byczuk , T. Dietl

We briefly report on our method [Fiore JPA 2017] of simplifying the equations of motion of charged particles in an electromagnetic field that is the sum of a plane travelling wave and a static part; it is based on changes of the dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Gaetano Fiore

Quantum simulation holds the promise of improving the atomic simulations used at EDF to anticipate the ageing of materials of interest. One simulator in particular seems well suited to modeling interacting electrons: the Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Antoine Michel

The formalism of reduced quantum electrodynamics is generalized to the case of heterostructures composed of few atomically thick layers and the corresponding effective (2+1)-dimensional gauge theory is formulated. This dimensionally reduced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , M. R. Parymuda