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In a recent study (Ref. [1]), quantum annealing was reported to exhibit a scaling advantage for approximately solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). However, this claim critically depends on the choice of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 J. Pawlowski , P. Tarasiuk , J. Tuziemski , L. Pawela , B. Gardas

Quantum work statistics differ from classical ones because initial energy coherence matters. The standard two-point measurement (TPM) gives a positive distribution but erases phase information. Coherence-retaining endpoint-work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gabriella G. Damas , G. D. de Moraes Neto

Marcus-Levich-Jortner (MLJ) theory is one of the most commonly used methods for including nuclear quantum effects into the calculation of electron-transfer rates and for interpreting experimental data. It divides the molecular problem into…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Eric R. Heller , Jeremy O. Richardson

We consider $N_a$ three-level atoms (or systems) interacting with a one-mode electromagnetic field in the dipolar and rotating wave approximations. The order of the quantum phase transitions is determined explicitly for each of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 S. Cordero , O. Castaños , R. López-Peña , E. Nahmad-Achar

Within the frame-work of semiclassical theory two-level approximation in atomic system has been considered. Model proposed by M.D. Crisp and E.T. Jaynes has been modified. It has been shown that the time-dependent frequency shift depends on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Bijan Saha

We study interaction effects on the orbital magnetism of diffusive mesoscopic quantum systems. By combining many-body perturbation theory with semiclassical techniques, we show that the interaction contribution to the ensemble averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Ullmo , K. Richter , H. U. Baranger , F. von Oppen , R. A. Jalabert

The fundamental correspondence between quantum chaotic single-particle systems and random matrix theory is well-understood via periodic orbit theory. In contrast, we show that many-body systems with explicit subsystem structure possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Maximilian F. I. Kieler , Felix Fritzsch , Arnd Bäcker

We consider in detail how the quantum-mechanical tunneling phenomenon occurs in a well-behaved octic potential. Our main tool will be the euclidean propagator just evaluated between two minima of the potential at issue. For such a purpose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Casahorran

Work in closed quantum systems is usually defined by a two-point measurement. This definition of work is compatible with quantum fluctuation theorems but it fundamentally differs from its classical counterpart. In this paper, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-16 Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We develop a general theoretical framework of semiclassical phase reduction for analyzing synchronization of quantum limit-cycle oscillators. The dynamics of quantum dissipative systems exhibiting limit-cycle oscillations are reduced to a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-16 Yuzuru Kato , Naoki Yamamoto , Hiroya Nakao

Path integral implementation of the quantum instanton approximation currently belongs among the most accurate methods for computing quantum rate constants and kinetic isotope effects, but its use has been limited due to the rather high…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Konstantin Karandashev , Jiri Vanicek

It is discussed an opportunity to introduce new class of quantum algorithms based on possibility to express amplitude of transition between two states of quantum system as sum of some function along all possible classical paths. Continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

A test on the numerical accuracy of the semiclassical approximation as a function of the principal quantum number has been performed for the Pullen--Edmonds model, a two--dimensional, non--integrable, scaling invariant perturbation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Graffi , V. R. Manfredi , L. Salasnich

The evolution of a system of chemical reactions can be studied, in the eikonal approximation, by means of a Hamiltonian dynamical system. The fixed points of this dynamical system represent the different states in which the chemical system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlos Escudero , Jose Angel Rodriguez

We investigate a bifurcation of periodic instanton in Euclidean action-temperature diagram in quantum mechanical models. It is analytically shown that multiple zero modes of fluctuation operator should be arised at bifurcation points. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hyun-Soo Min , Hungsoo Kim , D. K. Park , Soo-Young Lee , Sahng-Kyoon Yoo , Dal-Ho Yoon

The Einstein action for the gravitational field has some properties which make of it, after quantization, a rare prototype of systems with quantum configurations that do not have a classical analogue. Assuming spherical symmetry in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 G. Modanese

We show the transition from a fully quantized interaction to a semiclassical one in entangled small number quantum systems using the quantum trajectories approach. In particular, we simulate the microwave Ramsey zones used in Rydberg atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Marcelo França Santos

The correlations in the spectra of quantum systems are intimately related to correlations which are of genuine classical origin, and which appear in the spectra of actions of the classical periodic orbits of the corresponding classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uzy Smilansky , Basile Verdene

We have shown an example of semiclassical transition in \phi^4 model with positive coupling constant. This process describes a semiclassical transition between two coherent states with much smaller average number of particles in the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Alexander Kyatkin

A mixed quantal-semiquantal theory is presented in which the semiquantal squeezed-state wave packet describes the heavy degrees of freedom. We first derive mean-field equations of motion from the time-dependent variational principle. Then,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-08 Koji Ando