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We present a method to calculate exact dynamics of a wave-packet in a quantum two-state problem with Dirac delta coupling. The advantage of our method is that the calculations are done in the time domain. Hence inverting the solutions from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Saravanan Rajendran , Aniruddha Chakraborty

The development of emerging technologies in quantum optics demands accurate models that faithfully capture genuine quantum effects. Mature semiclassical approaches reach their limits when confronted with quantized electromagnetic fields,…

WavePacket is an open-source program package for numeric simulations in quantum dynamics. It can solve time-independent or time-dependent linear Schr\"odinger and Liouville-von Neumann-equations in one or more dimensions. Also coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Burkhard Schmidt , Carsten Hartmann

It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

Time-dependent quantum mechanics provides an intuitive picture of particle propagation in external fields. Semiclassical methods link the classical trajectories of particles with their quantum mechanical propagation. Many analytical results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 Tobias Kramer , Eric J. Heller , Robert E. Parrott

We study the dynamics of classical and quantum systems undergoing a continuous measurement of position by schematizing the measurement apparatus with an infinite set of harmonic oscillators at finite temperature linearly coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Presilla , Roberto Onofrio , Marco Patriarca

Within the so-called scaled quantum theory, the standard bouncing ball problem is analyzed under the presence of a gravitational field and harmonic potential. In this framework, the quantum-classical transition of the density matrix is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

We study a partially ionized hydrogen plasma by means of quantum molecular dynamics, which is based on wave packets. We introduce a new model which distinguishes between free and bound electrons. The free electrons are modelled as Gaussian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Ebeling , B. Militzer

Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Alexey A. Kryukov

In the first days of quantum mechanics Dirac pointed out an analogy between the time-dependent coefficients of an expansion of the Schr\"odinger equation and the classical position and momentum variables solving Hamilton's equations. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 J. S. Briggs , A. Eisfeld

Quantum algorithms for electronic-structure simulations are actively being developed, yet many hybrid quantum-classical approaches are bottlenecked by the measurement overhead associated with large molecular Hamiltonians. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benjamin Mokhtar , Noboru Inoue , Takashi Tsuchimochi

In this first of a series of four articles, it is shown how a hamiltonian quantum dynamics can be formulated based on a generalization of classical probability theory using the notion of quasi-invariant measures on the classical phase space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-13 S. Maxson

Quantum trajectory techniques have been used in the theory of open systems as a starting point for numerical computations and to describe the monitoring of a quantum system in continuous time. Here we extend this technique and use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli

The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

Described is n-level quantum system realized in the n-dimensional ''Hilbert'' space H with the scalar product G taken as a dynamical variable. The most general Lagrangian for the wave function and G is considered. Equations of motion and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 Vasyl Kovalchuk , Jan Jerzy Slawianowski

This paper posits the existence of, and finds a candidate for, a variable change that allows quantum mechanics to be interpreted as quantum geometry. The Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom is thought of in terms of an indeterministic electron…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Robert L. Navin

Quantum algorithms for classical physics problems expose new patterns of quantum information flow as compared to the many-body Schr\"{o}dinger equation. As a result, besides their potential practical applications, they also offer a valuable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Sauro Succi , Claudio Sanavio , Peter Love

The local conservation of a physical quantity whose distribution changes with time is mathematically described by the continuity equation. The corresponding time parameter, however, is defined with respect to an idealized classical clock.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Axel Schild