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In a series of papers, a many-minds interpretation of quantum theory has been developed. The aim in these papers is to present an explicit mathematical formalism which constitutes a complete theory compatible with relativistic quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Donald

Many-body systems with both coherent dynamics and dissipation constitute a rich class of models which are nevertheless much less explored than their dissipationless counterparts. The advent of numerous experimental platforms that simulate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We discuss basic statistical properties of systems with multifractal structure. This is possible by extending the notion of the usual Gibbs--Shannon entropy into more general framework - Renyi's information entropy. We address the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Jizba , Toshihico Arimitsu

Conceptually, the Matsubara formalism (MF), using imaginary frequencies, and the Keldysh formalism (KF), formulated in real frequencies, give equivalent results for systems in thermal equilibrium. The MF has less complexity and is thus more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Anxiang Ge , Johannes Halbinger , Seung-Sup B. Lee , Jan von Delft , Fabian B. Kugler

We provide a detailed exposition of our computational framework designed for the accurate calculation of real-frequency dynamical correlation functions of the single-impurity Anderson model (AM) in the regime of weak to intermediate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Nepomuk Ritz , Anxiang Ge , Elias Walter , Santiago Aguirre , Jan von Delft , Fabian B. Kugler

The growing complexity of real-world systems necessitates interdisciplinary solutions to confront myriad challenges in modeling, analysis, management, and control. To meet these demands, the parallel systems method rooted in Artificial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yong Zhao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Bin Chen , Sihang Qiu , Jincai Huang , Xin Lu , Weiyi Yang , Chuan Ai , Kuihua Huang , Cheng He , Yucheng Jin , Zhong Liu , Fei-Yue Wang

We employ the functional renormalization group approach formulated on the Schwinger-Keldysh contour to calculate real-time correlation functions in scalar field theories. We provide a detailed description of the formalism, discuss suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Sven Huelsmann , Soeren Schlichting , Philipp Scior

We extend the coupled-cluster method to correlated quantum dynamics of both closed and open systems at finite temperatures using the thermo-field formalism. The approach expresses the time-dependent density matrix in an exponential ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Philip Shushkov , Thomas F. Miller

We demonstrate that the condensed matter quantum systems encompassing two reservoirs connected by a junction permit a natural definition of flows of conserved measures, Renyi entropies. Such flows are similar to the flows of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuli V. Nazarov

The worldline formalism allows one to obtain compact integral representations combining the information of large numbers of Feynman diagrams. However, their analytic calculation leads to a non-standard integration problem for which existing…

The theory of real-time quantum many-body dynamics as put forward in Ref. [arXiv:0710.4627] is evaluated in detail. The formulation is based on a generating functional of correlation functions where the Keldysh contour is closed at a given…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-09 Thomas Gasenzer , Stefan Kessler , Jan M. Pawlowski

The article develops a powerful theoretical tool to obtain the full counting statistics. By a slight extension of the standard Keldysh method we can access immediately all correlation functions of the current operator. Embedded in a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Belzig

The many-body problem is usually approached from one of two perspectives: the first originates from an action and is based on Feynman diagrams, the second is centered around a Hamiltonian and deals with quantum states and operators. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-15 Fabian B. Kugler , Seung-Sup B. Lee , Jan von Delft

We present a unified many-body perturbation theory for open quantum systems, that treats dissipation, correlations, and external driving on equal footing. Using a Keldysh-Lindblad formalism, we introduce diagrammatic treatment of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtech Vlcek

The black hole final state proposal implements manifest unitarity in the process of black hole formation and evaporation in quantum gravity, by postulating a unique final state boundary condition at the singularity. We argue that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-21 Mukund Rangamani , Massimiliano Rota

These notes provide an overview of real-time techniques in quantum field theories and holography. We outline the general rationale and principles underlying the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism and its out-of-time-order generalizations. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Felix M. Haehl , Mukund Rangamani

The functional renormalization group (FRG) approach for spin models relying on a pseudo-fermionic description has proven to be a powerful technique in simulating ground state properties of strongly frustrated magnetic lattices. A drawback…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-17 Janik Potten , Yasir Iqbal , Ronny Thomale , Tobias Müller

Input-output theory is a well-known tool in quantum optics and ubiquitous in the description of quantum systems probed by light. Owing to the generality of the setup it describes, the theory finds application in a wide variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Aaron Daniel , Matteo Brunelli , Aashish A. Clerk , Patrick P. Potts

Potential non-relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics and the Keldysh-Schwinger formalism is used to derive Kadanoff-Baym-like equations for two-body field correlators. These cover the out-off-equilibrium dynamics and spectrum of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Tobias Binder

This paper proposes a parallel numerical algorithm to simulate the flow and the transport in a discrete fracture network taking into account the mass exchanges with the surrounding matrix. The discretization of the Darcy fluxes is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Feng Xing , Roland Masson , Simon Lopez