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We devise an efficient scheme to determine vibrational properties from Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. The method is based on zero-time Kubo-transformed correlation functions and captures the anharmonicity of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 Tommaso Morresi , Lorenzo Paulatto , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Michele Casula

A distribution of electromagnetic fields presents a statistical assembly of a particular type, which is at scale h a quantum statistical assembly itself and has also been instrumental to concretisation of the basic probability assumption of…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

In these notes, we elucidate some subtle aspects of coherent-state path integrals, focusing on their application to the equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum many-particle systems. These subtleties emerge when evaluating path integrals in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-19 Luca Salasnich , Cesare Vianello

Most recently, path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) has been successfully applied to perform simulations of identical bosons and fermions by B. Hirshberg et al.. In this work, we demonstrate that PIMD can be developed to calculate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-30 Xiong Yunu , Xiong Hongwei

The path-integral formulation of the statistical mechanics of quantum many-body systems is described, with the purpose of introducing practicaltechniques for the simulation of solids. Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods for…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-11 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

Approximation methods for calculating individual particle/ field motions in spacetime at the quantum level of accuracy (a key feature of the Bohm Picture of Quantum Mechanics (BP)), are studied. Modern textbook presentations of Quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 A. Miranda

Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) is used to directly simulate the dynamics of an excess electron in a supercritical fluid over a broad range of densities. The accuracy of the RPMD model is tested against numerically exact path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-27 Thomas F. Miller

We have developed and implemented a new quantum molecular dynamics approximation that allows fast and accurate simulations of dense plasmas from cold to hot conditions. The method is based on a carefully designed orbital-free implementation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Travis Sjostrom , Jerome Daligault

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

Bose-Einstein condensates with balanced gain and loss in a double-well potential have been shown to exhibit PT-symmetric states. As proposed by Kreibich et al [Phys. Rev. A 87, 051601(R) (2013)], in the mean-field limit the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Tina Mathea , Dennis Dast , Daniel Dizdarevic , Holger Cartarius , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

Field emission coupled with molecular dynamics simulation (FEcMD) software package is a computational tool for studying the electron emission characteristics and the atomic structure evolution of micro- and nano-protrusions made of pure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Nan Li , Xinyu Gao , Xianghui Feng , Kai Wu , Yonghong Cheng , Bing Xiao

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

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) play an essential role in many atomistic systems, yet their explicit inclusion in molecular simulations remains challenging. Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provides a rigorous framework for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ádám Madarász , Bence Balázs Mészáros , János Daru

This review describes recent advances by the authors and others on the topic of incorporating experimental data into molecular simulations through maximum entropy methods. Methods which incorporate experimental data improve accuracy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dilnoza B. Amirkulova , Andrew D. White

We show that chemically-accurate potential energy surfaces (PESs) can be generated from quantum computers by measuring only the density along an adiabatic transition between different molecular geometries. In lieu of using phase estimation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 James Brown

We introduce the coherent state mapping ring-polymer molecular dynamics (CS-RPMD), a new method that accurately describes electronic non-adiabatic dynamics with explicit nuclear quantization. This new approach is derived by using coherent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Sutirtha Chowdhury , Pengfei Huo

Numerical computations have become a pillar of all modern quantitative sciences. Any computation involves modeling--even if often this step is not made explicit--and any model has to neglect details while still being physically accurate.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-08 Thomas Speck

The core of this thesis is the path-integral formulation of quantum field theory and its ability to describe strongly-coupled quantum many-body systems of finite size. Collective behaviors can be efficiently described in such systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Kilian Fraboulet

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics (DeePMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Roberto Car , Weinan E

In the present work, we suggest an approach for describing dynamics of finite-dimensional quantum systems in terms of pseudostochastic maps acting on probability distributions, which are obtained via minimal informationally complete quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 V. I. Yashin , E. O. Kiktenko , A. S. Mastiukova , A. K. Fedorov