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Photosynthesis is an important and complex physical process in nature, whose comprehensive understanding would have many relevant industrial applications, for instance in the field of energy production. In this paper we propose a quantum…

The numerical emulation of quantum physics and quantum chemistry often involves an intractable number of degrees of freedom and admits no known approximation in general form. In practice, representing quantum-mechanical states using…

Quantum simulations are designed to model quantum systems, and many compilation frameworks have been developed for executing such simulations on quantum computers. Most compilers leverage the capabilities of digital and analog quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Liyi Li , Federico Zahariev , Chandeepa Dissanayake , Jae Swanepoel , Amr Sabry , Mark S. Gordon

The ability to perform ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using potential energies calculated on quantum computers would allow virtually exact dynamics for chemical and biochemical systems, with substantial impacts on the fields of…

Bosonic exchange symmetry leads to fascinating quantum phenomena, from exciton condensation in quantum materials to the superfluidity of liquid Helium-4. Unfortunately, path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations of bosons are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

This paper describes an algorithmic system called SQT for the computer simulation of a wide class of quantum experiments on entangled particles. SQT maintains a hidden internal state for each particle and it provides an initialization…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-11-28 John R Rankin

Quantum simulators, in which well controlled quantum systems are used to reproduce the dynamics of less understood ones, have the potential to explore physics that is inaccessible to modeling with classical computers. However, checking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Senko , J. Smith , P. Richerme , A. Lee , W. C. Campbell , C. Monroe

A new family of supramolecular, antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled dimers of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) has recently been reported [W. Wernsdorfer, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, D.N. Hendrickson, and G. Christou, Nature 416, 406 (2002)]. Each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Tiron , W. Wernsdorfer , D. Foguet-Albiol , N. Aliaga-Alcalde , G. Christou

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in the spin-boson model with/without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) are systematically investigated through variational calculations using a sub-Ohmic bath with high spectral density. Four cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nengji Zhou , Yulong Shen , Zhe Sun

Interacting spin-boson models encompass a large class of physical systems, spanning models with a single spin interacting with a bosonic bath -- a paradigm of quantum impurity problems -- to models with many spins interacting with a cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Naushad A. Kamar , Mohammad Maghrebi

Digital quantum computers have the potential to study the dynamics of complex quantum systems. Nonequilibrium open quantum systems are, however, less straightforward to be implemented. Here we consider a collisional model representation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Rebecca Erbanni , Xiansong Xu , Tommaso Demarie , Dario Poletti

The ability to manipulate single atoms has opened up the door to constructing interesting and useful quantum structures from the ground up. On the one hand, nanoscale arrangements of magnetic atoms are at the heart of future quantum…

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Simulating the irreversible quantum dynamics of exciton and electron transfer problems poses a nontrivial challenge. Because the irreversibility of the system dynamics is a result of quantum thermal activation and dissipation caused by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Seiji Ueno , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Simulating large electronic networks with vibrational environments remains a fundamental challenge due to the long lifetimes of electronic-vibrational (vibronic) excitations on the picosecond scale. Quantum computers are a promising…

The accurate computational determination of chemical, materials, biological, and atmospheric properties has critical impact on a wide range of health and environmental problems, but is deeply limited by the computational scaling of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Debadrita Saha , Srinivasan S. Iyengar , Philip Richerme , Jeremy M. Smith , Amr Sabry

With extensive variational simulations, dissipative quantum phase transitions in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model are numerically studied in a dense limit of environmental modes. By employing a generalized trial wave function composed of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yulong Shen , Nengji Zhou

We investigate memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics on superconducting quantum processors provided by IBM Quantum. We use a collision-model approach to implement suitable single- and two-qubit dynamics with a gate-based quantum circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Charlotte Bäcker , Krishna Palaparthy , Walter T. Strunz

It is difficult to calculate the energy levels and eigenstates of a large physical system on a classical computer because of the exponentially growing size of the Hilbert space. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Zhaokai Li , Xiaomei Liu , Hefeng Wang , Sahel Ashhab , Jiangyu Cui , Hongwei Chen , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

In this note, we show that the model of the quantum brain dynamics can be cast on a kind of the Heisenberg spin Hamiltonian. Therefore, we would like to emphasize that the quantum dynamics of brain should be understood by the physics of…

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