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We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of functional calculus and path integrals, drawing a clear…

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We introduce a Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach that uses the angular momentum representation for the description of interacting rotor systems. Such a choice of representation allows the calculation of momentum properties without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Estêvão de Oliveira , Muhammad Shaeer Moeed , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Digital quantum computers have the potential to study the dynamics of complex quantum systems. Nonequilibrium open quantum systems are, however, less straightforward to be implemented. Here we consider a collisional model representation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Rebecca Erbanni , Xiansong Xu , Tommaso Demarie , Dario Poletti

We review the imaginary time path integral approach to the quench dynamics of conformal field theories. We show how this technique can be applied to the determination of the time dependence of correlation functions and entanglement entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

We propose a quantum algorithm to simulate the dynamics in quantum chemistry problems. It is based on adding fresh qubits at each Trotter step, which enables a simpler implementation of the dynamics in the extended system. After each step,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Maxine Luo , J. Ignacio Cirac

Vibrational spectra of condensed and gas-phase systems containing light nuclei are influenced by their quantum-mechanical behaviour. The quantum dynamics of light nuclei can be approximated by the imaginary time path integral (PI)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Félix Musil , Iryna Zaporozhets , Frank Noé , Cecilia Clementi , Venkat Kapil

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the simulation of real-time dynamics in interacting quantum field theories coupled to classical fields, focusing on the self-consistent estimation of semiclassical backreaction. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Carlos Fulgado-Claudio , Daniel González-Cuadra , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Alejandro Bermudez

We investigate a thermally isolated quantum many-body system with an external control represented by a time-dependent parameter. We formulate a path integral in terms of thermal pure states and derive an effective action for trajectories in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Shin-ichi Sasa , Sho Sugiura , Yuki Yokokura

Developments in the foundations of quantum mechanics have identified several attributes and tests associated with the "quantumness" of systems, including entanglement, nonlocality, quantum erasure, Bell test, etc. Here we introduce and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Torsten Scholak , Paul Brumer

Quantum states can be described equivalently by density matrices, Wigner functions or quantum tomograms. We analyze the accuracy and performance of three related semiclassical approaches to quantum dynamics, in particular with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-27 G. Schubert , V. S. Filinov , K. Matyash , R. Schneider , H. Fehske

Monte Carlo studies involving real time dynamics are severely restricted by the sign problem that emerges from highly oscillatory phase of the path integral. In this letter, we present a new method to compute real time quantities on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Sohan Vartak , Neill C. Warrington

Coherent state functional integral for the minisuperspace model of loop quantum cosmology is studied. By the well-established canonical theory, the transition amplitude in the path integral representation of loop quantum cosmology with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-07 Li Qin , Yongge Ma

In low-temperature high-density plasmas quantum effects of the electrons are becoming increasingly important. This requires the development of new theoretical and computational tools. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are among the most…

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Stochastic systems feature, in general, both coherent dynamics and incoherent transitions between different states. We propose a method to identify the coherent part in the full counting statistics for the transitions. The proposal is…

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The worldline path integral approach to the Bern-Kosower formalism is reviewed, which offers an alternative to Feynman diagram calculations in quantum field theory. Recent progress in constructing a multiloop generalization of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

We establish a direct connection between the Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism for open quantum systems and the Wiener path integral used in classical stochastic dynamics. By considering a generalized influence functional in the strong…

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Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature, when the ground state of a Hamiltonian undergoes a qualitative change as a function of a control parameter. We consider a particularly interesting system with competing one-, two- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 Xinhua Peng , Jingfu Zhang , Jiangfeng Du , Dieter Suter

Predicting the quantum dynamics of promising solid-state and molecular quantum technology candidates remains a formidable challenge. Yet, accessing these dynamics is key to understanding and controlling decoherence mechanisms -- a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Tianchu Li , Pranay Venkatesh , Nanako Shitara , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

We describe a path-integral ground-state quantum Monte Carlo method for light nuclei in continuous space. We show how to efficiently update and sample the paths with spin-isospin dependent and spin-orbit interactions. We apply the method to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Rong Chen , Kevin E. Schmidt