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For a system of bosons that interact through a class of general memory kernels, a recurrence relation for the partition function is derived within the path-integral formalism. This approach provides a generalization to previously known…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-02 Timour Ichmoukhamedov , Jacques Tempere

Recently, fictitious identical particles have provided a promising way to overcome the fermion sign problem and have been used in path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) to accurately simulate warm dense matter with up to 1000 electrons (T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

The use of variational method in functional integral approach is discussed for fermion and boson systems with Coulomb interaction. The formal general expression of thermodynamic potential is obtained by Feynman path integral technique and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ilmars Madzhulis , Vilnis Frishfelds

Conventional molecular dynamics simulations macromolecules require long computational times because the most interesting motions are very slow compared with the fast oscillations of bond lengths and bond angles that limit the integration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexey K. Mazur

Digital quantum computers offer a promising route for studying complex many-body systems that are otherwise inaccessible by their classical counterparts. Capabilities including mid-circuit measurements and feedback allow for simulating the…

We solve numerically exactly a simple toy model to quantum general relativity or more properly to path integral on a curved space. We consider the thermal equilibrium of a quantum many body problem on the sphere, the surface of constant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-25 Riccardo Fantoni

We reformulate the full quantum dynamics of spin systems using a phase space representation based on SU(2) coherent states which generates an exact mapping of the dynamics of any spin system onto a set of stochastic differential equations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-10 Ray Ng , Piotr Deuar , Erik Sorensen

Simulations that couple different classical molecular models in an adaptive way by changing the number of degrees of freedom on the fly, are available within reasonably consistent theoretical frameworks. The same does not occur when it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 A. B. Poma , L. Delle Site

We describe a possible architecture to implement a universal bosonic simulator (UBS) using trapped ions. Single ions are confined in individual traps, and their motional states represent the bosonic modes. Single-mode linear operators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Daniel F. V. James

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

Boson sampling solves a classically intractable problem by sampling from a probability distribution given by matrix permanents. We propose a scalable implementation of Boson sampling using local transverse phonon modes of trapped ions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Chao Shen , Zhen Zhang , Luming Duan

We study a system of 2D trapped bosons in a quasiperiodic potential via ab initio Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations, focusing on its finite temperature properties, which have not yet been explored. Alongside the superfluid, normal fluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-05 Matteo Ciardi , Tommaso Macrì , Fabio Cinti

The spin-boson model is a prototypical model for open quantum dynamics. Here we simulate the spin-boson model using a chain of trapped ions where a spin is coupled to a structured reservoir of bosonic modes. We engineer the spectral density…

We expand iterative numerically-exact influence functional path-integral tools and present a method capable of following the nonequilibrium time evolution of subsystems coupled to multiple bosonic and fermionic reservoirs simultaneously.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lena Simine , Dvira Segal

We propose a method of simulating efficiently many-body interacting fermion lattice models in trapped ions, including highly nonlinear interactions in arbitrary spatial dimensions and for arbitrarily distant couplings. We map products of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Casanova , A. Mezzacapo , L. Lamata , E. Solano

Being motivated by the surge of fermionic quantum Monte Carlo simulations at finite temperature, we present a detailed analysis of the permutation-cycle properties of path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of degenerate electrons.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexei Filinov , Michael Bonitz

Accurate simulation of dynamical processes in molecules and reactions is among the most challenging problems in quantum chemistry. Quantum computers promise efficient chemical simulation, but the existing quantum algorithms require many…

Trapped ions offer long coherence times and high fidelity, programmable quantum operations, making them a promising platform for quantum simulation of condensed matter systems, quantum dynamics, and problems related to high-energy physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Michael Foss-Feig , Guido Pagano , Andrew C. Potter , Norman Y. Yao

We review the path integral method wherein quantum systems are mapped with Feynman's path integrals onto a classical system of "ring-polymers" and then simulated with the Monte Carlo technique. Bose or Fermi statistics correspond to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-27 J. Shumway , D. M. Ceperley

The exchange antisymmetry between identical fermions gives rise to the well known fermion sign problem, in the form of large cancellation between positive and negative contribution to the partition function, making any simulation methods…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-31 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei