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We have detected in high resolution spectra of the quasar Q0347--3819 obtained with the UVES spectrograph at the VLT/Kueyen telescope over 80 absorption features in the Lyman and Werner H2 bands at the redshift of a damped Ly-alpha system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. A. Levshakov , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , S. D'Odorico , P. Molaro

Quantum simulation is a cornerstone application for quantum computing, yet standard methods face a trade-off between circuit depth and accuracy: Trotterization depth scales with the number of Hamiltonian terms $L$, while sampling-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sangjin Lee , Sangkook Choi

We use high resolution Eulerian hydrodynamics simulations to study kinematic properties of the low ionization species in damped Ly-alpha systems at redshift z=3. Our adaptive mesh refinement simulations include most key ingredients relevant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexei O. Razoumov , Michael L. Norman , Jason X. Prochaska , Arthur M. Wolfe

We study dynamical phase transitions (DPT) in the driven and damped Dicke model, realizable for example by a driven atomic ensemble collectively coupled to a damped cavity mode. These DPTs are characterized by non-analyticities of certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

Quantum Hamiltonians that are fine-tuned to their so-called Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) points, first presented in the context of quantum dimer models, are defined by their representations in preferred bases in which their ground state wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-30 Claudio Castelnovo , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry , Pierre Pujol

The Helmholtz energy is a key thermodynamic quantity representing available energy to do work at a constant temperature and volume. Despite a well-established methodology from first-principles calculations, a comprehensive tool and database…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-25 Nigel Lee En Hew , Luke Allen Myers , Axel van de Walle , Shun-Li Shang , Zi-Kui Liu

We extend our density matrix embedding theory (DMET) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 186404 (2012)] from lattice models to the full chemical Hamiltonian. DMET allows the many-body embedding of arbitrary fragments of a quantum system, even when such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-15 Gerald Knizia , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

This paper reviews the linearized path integral approach for computing time dependent properties of systems that can be approximated using a mixed quantum-classical description. This approach is applied to studying vibrational pure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Ma , D. F. Coker

In this work we get insight into the impact of reduced density matrix functionals on the quality of removal/addition energies obtained using the Extended Koopmans' Theorem (EKT). Within reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-26 S. Di Sabatino , J. Koskelo , J. A. Berger , P. Romaniello

We propose an experiment to obtain the phase diagram of the fermionic Hubbard model, for any dimensionality, using cold atoms in optical lattices. It is based on measuring the total energy for a sequence of trap profiles. It combines…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-13 Vivaldo L. Campo , Klaus Capelle , Jorge Quintanilla , Chris Hooley

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

We develop a theoretical framework for the exploration of quantum mechanical coherent population transfer phenomena, with the ultimate goal of constructing faithful models of devices for classical and quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. G. Beausoleil , W. J. Munro , T. P. Spiller

A theoretical description for the radial density profile of a finite number of identical charged particles confined in a harmonic trap is developed for application over a wide range of Coulomb coupling (or, equivalently, temperatures) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Wrighton , J. W. Dufty , H. Kählert , M. Bonitz

Sampling from high-dimensional and structured probability distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics, particularly in the context of lattice field theory (LFT), where generating field configurations efficiently is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jehu Martinez , Andrea Delgado

We introduce a new class of generative quantum-neural-network-based models called Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models (QHBMs). In doing so, we establish a paradigmatic approach for quantum-probabilistic hybrid variational learning, where we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Guillaume Verdon , Jacob Marks , Sasha Nanda , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary

Recently, the size-dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in quantum dots has been investigated experimentally. In particular, for longer driving wavelengths and QDs smaller than 3\,nm, HHG was strongly suppressed, however,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Martin Thümmler , Alexander Croy , Ulf Peschel , Stefanie Gräfe

We report results from our mini-survey for molecular hydrogen in eight high redshift damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) systems using the ESO Ultra-violet and Visible Spectrograph on the VLT. In addition, we investigate two systems using ESO public…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Petitjean , R. Srianand , Cédric Ledoux

Loosely speaking, the concept of quantum typicality refers to the fact that a single pure state can imitate the full statistical ensemble. This fact has given rise to a rather simple but remarkably useful numerical approach to simulate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-18 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Dennis Schubert , Robin Steinigeweg

Accurate knowledge of the properties of hydrogen at high compression is crucial for astrophysics (e.g. planetary and stellar interiors, brown dwarfs, atmosphere of compact stars) and laboratory experiments, including inertial confinement…

Dimer decimation scheme is introduced in order to study the kicked quantum systems exhibiting localization transition. The tight-binding representation of the model is mapped to a vectorized dimer where an asymptotic dissociation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomaž Prosen , Indubala I Satija , Nausheen R. Shah