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The Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics adds particle trajectories to the wave function and ensures that the probability distribution of the particle positions agrees with quantum mechanics at any time. This is not sufficient to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Michael Zirpel

In the last few years the hydrodynamic formulation of quantum mechanics, equivalent to the Bohmian equations of motion, has been used to obtain numerical solutions of the Schrodinger equation. Problems, however, have been experienced near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Guay , L. Marchildon

We generalize the de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) formulation of quantum mechanics to the case of quantum gravity (QG) by using the effective action for a QG theory. This is done by replacing the dBB equations of motion with the effective action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Aleksandar Mikovic

Trajectory-based mixed quantum-classical approaches to coupled electron-nuclear dynamics suffer from well-studied problems such as the lack of (or incorrect account for) decoherence in the trajectory surface hopping method and the inability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-29 Federica Agostini , Seung Kyu Min , Ali Abedi , E. K. U. Gross

In the first part of this paper, the different distinguishable pathways and regions of the single and sequential double ionization are determined and discussed. It is shown that there are two distinguishable pathways for the single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Firoozeh Sami , Mohsen Vafaee , Babak Shokri

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory for the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei that goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation. We prove that the time-dependent marginal nuclear probability density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Chen Li , Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

Quantum trajectory calculations for electrons are a useful tool in the field of molecular dynamics, e.g. to understand processes in ultrafast spectroscopy. They have, however, two limitation: On the one hand, such calculations are typically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Axel Schild

Both classical and wave-mechanical monochromatic waves may be treated in terms of exact ray-trajectories (encoded in the structure itself of Helmholtz-like equations) whose mutual coupling is the one and only cause of any diffraction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Adriano Orefice , Raffaele Giovanelli , Domenico Ditto

We derive for Bohmian mechanics topological factors for quantum systems with a multiply-connected configuration space Q. These include nonabelian factors corresponding to what we call holonomy-twisted representations of the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Detlef Duerr , Sheldon Goldstein , James Taylor , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi

The Exact Factorization (EF) theory aims at the separation of the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom in the many-body (MB) quantum mechanical problem. Being formally equivalent to the solution of the MB Schr\"{o}dinger equation, EF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Vladimir U. Nazarov , E. K. U. Gross

In this study, we use the concept of Bohmian trajectories to present a dynamical and deterministic interpretation for the gravity induced wave function reduction. We shall classify all possible regimes for the motion of a particle, based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Faramarz Rahmani , Mehdi Golshani

The question of the representation of quantum stationary partially polarized waves as random superpositions of different polarization ellipses is addressed. To this end, the Bohmian formulation of quantum mechanics is considered and…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-28 A. Luis , A. S. Sanz

The Eherenfest theorem states that Schrodinger representation of quantum mechanics (wave mechanics) reproduces Newton laws of motion in terms of expectation values. Remarkably, the contrary is considered elusive and, indeed, many authors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Michele Marrocco

The Born-Oppenheimer electronic wavefunction $\Phi_R^{BO}(r)$ picks up a topological phase factor $\pm 1$, a special case of Berry phase, when it is transported around a conical intersection of two adiabatic potential energy surfaces in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Ryan Requist , Falk Tandetzky , E. K. U. Gross

The long-standing challenge to describing charged particle dynamics in strong classical electromagnetic fields is how to incorporate classical radiation, classical radiation reaction and quantized photon emission into a consistent unified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun

Analytical expressions for spectra and wave functions are derived for a Bohr Hamiltonian, describing the collective motion of deformed nuclei, in which the mass is allowed to depend on the nuclear deformation. Solutions are obtained for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Dennis Bonatsos , P. E. Georgoudis , D. Lenis , N. Minkov , C. Quesne

Bohmian mechanics is a deterministic theory of quantum mechanics that is based on a set of n velocity functions for n particles, where these functions depend on the wavefunction from the n-body time-dependent Schroedinger equation. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 James P. Finley

We set up the Maxwell's equations and the corresponding classical wave equations for the electromagnetic waves which together with the generating source, a traveling oscillatory charge of zero rest mass, comprise a particle traveling in the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-10-05 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

The nuclear velocity perturbation theory (NVPT) for vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) is derived from the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wave function. This new formalism offers an exact starting point to include correction…

Potential energy surfaces of electron dynamics (ePES) are constructed from a model of localized electron wave packets (eWP) with non-orthogonal valence-bond (VB) spin coupling and applied to quantum dynamics simulations of high harmonic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Koji Ando