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We propose a systematic way to investigate the low-temperature thermodynamic properties of quantum spin systems subject to the restriction that only a finite number of bosons may occupy a single lattice site. Such a kinematical interaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 L. V. Popovich , M. V. Medvedev

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

We consider a few number of identical bosons trapped in a 2D isotropic harmonic potential and also the $N$-boson system when it is feasible. The atom-atom interaction is modelled by means of a finite-range Gaussian interaction. The spectral…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-25 Pere Mujal , Enric Sarlé , Artur Polls , Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Quantum mechanics dominates various effects in modern research from miniaturizing electronics, up to potentially ruling solid-state physics, quantum chemistry and biology. To study these effects experimental quantum systems may provide the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Frederick Hakelberg , Philip Kiefer , Matthias Wittemer , Ulrich Warring , Tobias Schaetz

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

Dynamic bonding is an essential feature of many soft materials. Molecular simulations have proven to be a powerful tool for modeling bonding kinetics and thermodynamics in these materials, providing insights into their properties that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Tyla R. Holoman , B. P. Prajwal , Glen M. Hocky , Thomas M. Truskett

We study the dynamics of one-dimensional bosons trapped in a box potential, in the presence of a barrier creating a tunable weak-link, thus realizing a one dimensional Bose Josephson junction. By varying the initial population imbalance and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-25 Abhik Kumar Saha , Romain Dubessy

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been extensively used to study phonons and gain insight, but direct comparisons to experimental data are often difficult, due to a lack of empirical interatomic potentials (EIPs) for different…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-10 Andrew Rohskopf , Hamid R. Seyf , Kiarash Gordiz , Asegun Henry

Ultracold neutral bosons in a rapidly rotating atomic trap have been predicted to exhibit fractional quantum Hall-like states. We describe how the composite fermion theory, used in the description of the fractional quantum Hall effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Regnault , C. C. Chang , Th. Jolicoeur , J. K. Jain

We investigate the superfluid-insulator transition of one-dimensional interacting Bosons in both deep and shallow periodic potentials. We compare a theoretical analysis based on Monte-Carlo simulations in continuum space and Luttinger…

We propose a method to simulate the dynamics of spin-boson models with small crystals of trapped ions where the electronic degree of freedom of one ion is used to encode the spin while the collective vibrational degrees of freedom are…

In this short note we sketch the statistical physics framework of the replica exchange technique when applied to molecular dynamics simulations. In particular, we draw attention to generalized move sets that allow a variety of optimizations…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Walter Nadler , Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

The performance of the positive P phase-space representation for exact many-body quantum dynamics is investigated. Gases of interacting bosons are considered, where the full quantum equations to simulate are of a Gross-Pitaevskii form with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Deuar , P. D. Drummond

The vibrations of a chain of trapped ions can be considered, under suitable experimental conditions, as an ensemble of interacting phonons, whose quantum dynamics is governed by a Bose--Hubbard Hamiltonian. In this work we study the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. -L. Deng , D. Porras , J. I. Cirac

The dynamics of bosons in curved geometries have recently attracted significant interest in quantum many-body physics. Leveraging recent experimental advances in tailored trapping landscapes, we investigate the quantum transport of weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-10 Rhombik Roy , Ofir E Alon

Polar molecules represent a promising platform for quantum simulation and computation protocols. Highly controllable arrays of optical tweezers are now accessible in experiments, allowing for unprecedented control of individual molecules.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Sakthikumaran Ravichandran , Piotr Kulik , Krzysztof Jachymski

A Path Integral Monte Carlo method is used to investigate the thermodynamics of nuclear like systems. Systems composed of bosons or fermions interracting via a Lennard-Jones potential with periodic boundary conditions were simulated and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-02 A. H. Raduta

We develop an alternative boson sampling model operating on single-photon states followed by linear interferometry and Gaussian measurements. The hardness proof for simulating such continuous-variable measurements is established in two main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Levon Chakhmakhchyan , Nicolas J. Cerf

We study the interplay of collective dynamics and damping in the presence of correlations and bosonic fluctuations within the framework of a newly proposed model, which captures the principal transport mechanisms that apply to a variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Alvermann , D. M. Edwards , H. Fehske

Boson sampling has been theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated to show quantum computational advantages. However, it still lacks the deep understanding of the practical applications of boson sampling. Here we propose that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Wen-Qiang Liu , Zhang-qi Yin