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We present a new method to derive transport equations for quantum many-particle systems. This method uses an equation-of-motion technique and is applicable to systems with bosons and fermions, arbitrary interactions and time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Fricke

This paper presents a new technique to calculate the evolution of a quantum wavefunction in a chosen spatial basis by minimizing the accumulated action. Introduction of a finite temporal basis reduces the problem to a set of linear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zachary B. Walters

Modes generally provide an economical description of waves, reducing complicated wave functions to finite numbers of mode amplitudes, as in propagating fiber modes and ideal laser beams. But finding a corresponding mode description for…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-26 David A. B. Miller

Wavefunction is the foundation of quantum theory, which is assumed to give a complete description of a quantum system. For a long time, wavefunction is introduced as an abstract element of the theory and there lacks effective ways to…

This work is devoted to the derivation and the matematical study of a new model for water-soluble polymers and metal ions interactions, which are used in chemistry for their wide range of applications. First, we motivate and derive a model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Erwan Hingant , Mauricio Sepúlveda

In this article, we introduce a moving-frame approach to the geophysical equation of two-dimensional uniformly stratified rotational fluid in oceans and find a family of exact solutions containing ten arbitrary parameter functions.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-18 Xiaoping Xu

A quantum-mechanical wave function is complex, but all observations are real, expressible through expectation values and transition matrix elements that involve the wave functions. It can be useful to separate at the outset the amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 A. R. P. Rau

We present a derivation of Markovian master equation for the out of equilibrium quantum dot connected to two superconducting reservoirs, which are described by the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonians and have the chemical potentials, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Daniel S. Kosov , Tomaž Prosen , Bojan Žunkovič

Quantum metrology is a rapidly developing branch of quantum technologies. While various theories have been established on quantum metrology for Markovian processes, i.e., quantum channel estimation, quantum metrology for non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anian Altherr , Yuxiang Yang

Semiclassical (stochastic) wave equations are proposed for the coupled dynamics of atomic quantum states and semiclassical radiation field. All relevant predictions of standard unitary quantum dynamics are exactly reproducible in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lajos Diosi

We present a general treatment to study transport phenomena in systems described by tight-binding Hamiltonians coupled to reservoirs and with one or more time-periodic potentials. We apply this treatment to the study of transport phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liliana Arrachea

The wavefunction in quantum field theory is an invaluable tool for tackling a variety of problems, including probing the interior of Minkowski spacetime and modelling boundary observables in de Sitter spacetime. Here we study the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-19 Santiago Agui Salcedo , Mang Hei Gordon Lee , Scott Melville , Enrico Pajer

Aiming at providing an objective motion picture for the microscopic object described by the wave function, new analysis about motion is presented by use of the point set theory in mathematics, through which we show that a new kind of motion…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gao Shan

A general method is discussed to obtain Markovian master equations which describe the interaction with the environment in a microscopic and non-perturbative fashion. It is based on combining time-dependent scattering theory with the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Klaus Hornberger

The act of measurement on a quantum state is supposed to "collapse" the state into one of several eigenstates of the operator corresponding to the observable being measured. This measurement process is sometimes described as outside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Satish Ramakrishna

Wave packets provide a well established and versatile tool for studying time-dependent effects in molecular physics. Here, we demonstrate the application of wave packets to mesoscopic nanodevices at low temperatures. The electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 Tobias Kramer , Christoph Kreisbeck , Viktor Krueckl

We develop a dynamical theory, based on a system of ordinary differential equations describing the motion of particles which reproduces the results of quantum mechanics. The system generalizes the Hamilton equations of classical mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Maxim Raykin

The coarse-graining approach to deriving the quantum Markovian master equation is revisited, with close attention given to the underlying approximations. It is further argued that the time interval over which the coarse-graining is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 J D Cresser , C Facer

In earlier papers on the loop variable approach to gauge invariant interactions in string theory, a ``wave functional'' with some specific properties was invoked. It had the purpose of converting the generalized momenta to space time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 B. Sathiapalan

Quantum transport in mesoscopic conductors is essentially governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. One of the major open questions of quantum mechanics is what happens if non-commuting observables are measured simultaneously. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Adam Bednorz , Wolfgang Belzig