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An exact invariant is derived for three-dimensional Hamiltonian systems of $N$ particles confined within a general velocity-independent potential. The invariant is found to contain a time-dependent function $f_{2}(t)$, embodying a solution…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Jürgen Struckmeier , Claus Riedel

$PT$ symmetric quantum mechanics for a particle trapped by the generalized non-Hermitian harmonic oscillator potential is studied. It is shown that energy and the expectation value of the position operator $x$ can not be real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Yuce , A. Kurt , A. Kucukaslan

Boltzmann's H-Theorem, formulated 150 years ago in terms of H-function that also bears his name, is one of the most celebrated theorems of science and paved the way for the development of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Nevertheless,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-05 Shubham Kumar , Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

We argue that most of the relativistic 3-D (quasipotential) equations used in hadron physics are inconsistent with the discrete symmetries like charge conjugation and CPT, yielding an incorrect Lorentz structure for the calculated Green's…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Pascalutsa , J. A. Tjon

The study of a particle with position-dependent effective mass (pdem), within a double heterojunction is extended into the complex domain --- when the region within the heterojunctions is described by a non Hermitian ${\cal{PT}}$ symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anjana Sinha

The equilibrium state of a system consisting of a large number of strongly interacting electrons can be characterized by its density operator. This gives a direct access to the ground-state energy or, at finite temperatures, to the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-23 Michael Potthoff

We review the well-known Hellmann Feynman Theorem (HFT), originally developed for Hermitian systems to facilitate the calculation of forces among the molecules. Our work extends this foundational theorem to the domain of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Gaurav Hajong , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We study the properties of a parity- and time-reversal- (PT) symmetric tight-binding chain of size N with position-dependent hopping amplitude. In contrast to the fragile PT-symmetric phase of a chain with constant hopping and imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-06 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Avadh Saxena

This paper deals with the solution of the spherically symmetric time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation applied to nuclear giant monopole resonances in the small amplitude regime. The problem is spatially unbounded as the resonance state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 C. I. Pardi , P. D. Stevenson , K. Xu

Over the past decade, non-Hermitian, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians have been investigated as candidates for both, a fundamental, unitary, quantum theory, and open systems with a non-unitary time evolution. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Franck Assogba Onanga , Andrew K. Harter

We derive the ground-state energy for a small number of ultracold atoms in an isotropic harmonic trap using effective quantum field theory (EFT). Atoms are assumed to interact through pairwise energy-independent and energy-dependent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-29 X. Y. Yin , D. Blume , P. R. Johnson , E. Tiesinga

The starting point of this work is the axiomatic existence of a smallest measurable interval, viz. the Planck time $t_P$, set by quantum fluctuations in the vacuum metric tensor. By the Relativity Principle, the same limit must then apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Lieu

The probability distribution (PD) of spin configurations in kinetic Ising models has been cast in the form of the canonical Boltzmann PD with a time-dependent effective Hamiltonian (EH). It has been argued that in systems with extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-10 V. I. Tokar

Diffusion in heterogeneous energy and diffusivity landscapes is widespread in biological systems. However, solving the Langevin equation in such environments introduces ambiguity due to the interpretation parameter $\alpha$, which depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

We develop a complete resource theory of charge-parity-time (CPT) inversion symmetry for both massive and massless relativistic particles of arbitrary spin. We show that a unitary representation of CPT can be consistently constructed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Michael Skotiniotis , Borzu Toloui , Ian T. Durham , Barry C. Sanders

In contact Hamiltonian systems, the so-called dissipated quantities are akin to conserved quantities in classical Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we prove a Noether's theorem for non-autonomous contact Hamiltonian systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Jordi Gaset , Asier López-Gordón , Xavier Rivas

Time-dependent potentials are common in galactic systems that undergo significant evolution, interactions, or encounters with other galaxies, or when there are dynamic processes like star formation and merging events. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Eduárd Illés , Dániel Jánosi , Tamás Kovács

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for total energies has previously been shown to provide a qualitatively correct description of static correlation in molecular systems, where density functional theory (DFT) with local functionals are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Olsen

The understanding of the interaction of nucleons in nuclear and neutron-rich matter at non-zero temperature is important for a variety of applications ranging from heavy-ion collisions to nuclear astrophysics. In this papre we apply the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Francesca Sammarruca

Heisenberg-type spin models in the limit of a low number of excitations are useful tools to study basic mechanisms in strongly correlated and magnetic systems. Many of these mechanisms can be experimentally tested using ultracold atoms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Gian Luca Giorgi , Thomas Busch