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In these lectures I give an introduction to the time-dependent approach to inverse scattering, that has been developed recently. The aim of this approach is to solve various inverse scattering problems with time-dependent methods that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Weder

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

A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

We have developed a numerical approach to compute real-time path integral expressions for quantum transport problems out of equilibrium. The scheme is based on a deterministic iterative summation of the path integral (ISPI) for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-16 S. Weiss , J. Eckel , M. Thorwart , R. Egger

A path-integral approach for the computation of quantum-mechanical propagators and energy Green's functions is presented. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to singular interactions, with particular emphasis on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

The scattering problem can be implemented in a square-integrable basis via the so-called $J$-matrix method. While methods to compute the phase shift in the $J$-matrix approach are known, we introduce a novel formula in square-integrable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Calvin W. Johnson , Bui Minh Loc , Austin Keller , Kenneth M. Nollett

This paper proposes a numerical method using neural networks to solve the path integral problem in quantum mechanics for arbitrary potentials. The method is based on a radial basis function expansion of the interaction term that appears in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Gabor Balassa

The Half-Space Matching (HSM) method has recently been developed as a new method for the solution of 2D scattering problems with complex backgrounds, providing an alternative to Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) or other artificial boundary…

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam

Simulations of scattering processes are essential in understanding the physics of our universe. Computing relevant scattering quantities from ab initio methods is extremely difficult on classical devices because of the substantial…

We introduce two new integral transforms of the quantum mechanical transition kernel that represent physical information about the path integral. These transforms can be interpreted as probability distributions on particle trajectories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 James P. Edwards , Urs Gerber , Christian Schubert , Maria Anabel Trejo , Axel Weber

Picard--Lefschetz theory is applied to path integrals of quantum mechanics, in order to compute real-time dynamics directly. After discussing basic properties of real-time path integrals on Lefschetz thimbles, we demonstrate its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yuya Tanizaki , Takayuki Koike

The use of random sampling in decision-making and control has become popular with the ease of access to graphic processing units that can generate and calculate multiple random trajectories for real-time robotic applications. In contrast to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hyung-Jin Yoon , Chuyuan Tao , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros Voulgaris

We derive the first order canonical formulation of cosmological perturbation theory in a Universe filled by a few scalar fields. This theory is quantized via well-defined Hamiltonian path integral. The propagator which describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Anderegg , V. Mukhanov

The theme of doing quantum mechanics on all abelian groups goes back to Schwinger and Weyl. If the group is a vector space of finite dimension over a non-archimedean locally compact division ring, it is of interest to examine the structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 V. S. Varadarajan

We employ the so-called companion matrix method from computational algebraic geometry, tailored for zero-dimensional ideals, to study the scattering equations. The method renders the CHY-integrand of scattering amplitudes computable using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Rijun Huang , Junjie Rao , Bo Feng , Yang-Hui He

Random matrix theory can be used to describe the transport properties of a chaotic quantum dot coupled to leads. In such a description, two approaches have been taken in the literature, considering either the Hamiltonian of the dot or its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M L Polianski , P W Brouwer

We discuss possible applications of the 1-D direct and inverse scattering problem to design of universal quantum gates for quantum computation. The potentials generating some universal gates are described.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giorgadze , R. Tevzadze

One-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks show a rich spectrum of topological phases that have so far been exclusively analysed in momentum space. In this work we introduce an alternative approach to topology which is based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 B. Tarasinski , J. K. Asboth , J. P. Dahlhaus

We derive a stochastic path integral representation of counting statistics in semi-classical systems. The formalism is introduced on the simple case of a single chaotic cavity with two quantum point contacts, and then further generalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pilgram , A. N. Jordan , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Buttiker