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This article proposes a Variational Quantum Algorithm to solve linear and nonlinear thermofluid dynamic transport equations. The hybrid classical-quantum framework is applied to problems governed by the heat, wave, and Burgers' equation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Sergio Bengoechea , Paul Over , Dieter Jaksch , Thomas Rung

Motivated by recent progress in the experimental manipulation of cold atoms in optical lattices, we study three different protocols for non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. The protocols we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Maike Ostmann , Jiří Minář , Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Igor Lesanovsky

Rydberg atoms provide a highly promising platform for quantum computation, leveraging their strong tunable interactions to encode and manipulate information in the electronic states of individual atoms. Key advantages of Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gabriel Almeida , Raul Santos , Lara Janiurek , Yasser Omar

Gauge theories appear broadly in physics, ranging from the standard model of particle physics to long-wavelength descriptions of topological systems in condensed matter. However, systems with sign problems are largely inaccessible to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Di Luo , Jiayu Shen , Michael Highman , Bryan K. Clark , Brian DeMarco , Aida X. El-Khadra , Bryce Gadway

Optically trapped Rydberg atoms are a suitable platform to explore quantum many-body physics mediated by long-range atom--atom interactions that can be engineered through externally applied light fields. However, this approach is limited to…

Ultracold atoms confined by engineered magnetic or optical potentials are ideal systems for studying phenomena otherwise difficult to realize or probe in the solid state because their atomic interaction strength, number of species, density,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-20 Chih-Chun Chien , Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We study the possibility to use interaction between a polar molecule in the ground electronic and vibrational state and a Rydberg atom to construct two-qubit gates between molecular qubits and to coherently control molecular states. A polar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Elena Kuznetsova , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Hossein R. Sadeghpour , Susanne F. Yelin

Ultrafast chemical reactions are difficult to simulate because they involve entangled, many-body wavefunctions whose computational complexity grows rapidly with molecular size. In photochemistry, the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer…

We introduce a variational approximation to the microscopic dynamics of rare conformational transitions of macromolecules. Within this framework it is possible to simulate on a small computer cluster reactions as complex as protein folding,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-19 S. a Beccara , L. Fant , P. Faccioli

Gauge theories are the cornerstone of our understanding of fundamental interactions among particles. Their properties are often probed in dynamical experiments, such as those performed at ion colliders and high-intensity laser facilities.…

Rydberg atoms and beams of ultracold polar molecules have become highly useful experimental tools in recent years. There is therefore a need for accessible calculations of interaction potentials between such particles and nearby surfaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

Recent electronic transport experiments using metallic contacts attached to proteins identified some 'stylized facts' which contradict conventional wisdom that increasing either the spatial distance between the electrodes or the temperature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-04 Eszter Papp , Dávid P. Jelenfi , Máté T. Veszeli , Gábor Vattay

The thermodynamic properties of Davydov-Scott monomer contacting with thermal bath is investigated using Lindblad open quantum system formalism. The Lindblad equation is investigated through path integral method. It is found that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Sulaiman , F. P Zen , H. Alatas , L. T. Handoko

Rydberg atoms represent a platform underpinning many recent developments in quantum computation, simulation, sensing, and metrology. They further facilitate optical nonlinearity at the single-photon level when coupled to photons propagating…

In recent years, ultracold atoms in optical lattices have proven their great value as quantum simulators for studying strongly correlated phases and complex phenomena in solid-state systems. Here we reveal their potential as quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-24 Dirk-Sören Lühmann , Christof Weitenberg , Klaus Sengstock

A remarkable property of Rydberg atoms is the possibility to create molecules formed by one highly excited atom and another atom in the ground state. The first realisation of such a Rydberg molecule has opened an active field of physical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Andrej Junginger , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

We show that an array of polar molecules interacting with Rydberg atoms is a promising hybrid system for scalable quantum computation. Quantum information is stored in long-lived hyperfine or rotational states of molecules which interact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Chi Zhang , M. R. Tarbutt

Analog quantum simulations with Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers routinely address strongly correlated many-body problems due to the hardware-efficient implementation of the Hamiltonian. Yet, their generality is limited, and flexible…

Electron transfer within and between molecules is crucial in chemistry, biochemistry, and energy science. This study describes a quantum simulation method that explores the influence of light polarization on the electron transfer between…

We show that nuclear motion of Rydberg atoms can be induced by resonant dipole-dipole interactions that trigger the energy transfer between two energetically close Rydberg states. How and if the atoms move depends on their initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Ates , A. Eisfeld , J. M. Rost