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Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

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The interpretation of experiments on reactive semiconductor surfaces requires statistically significant sampling of molecular dynamics, but conventional ab initio methods are limited due to prohibitive computational costs. Machine-learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-19 Hendrik Weiske , Rhyan Barrett , Ralf Tonner-Zech , Patrick Melix , Julia Westermayr

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate on classical computers. Many quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Annie Ray , Esha Swaroop , Ningping Cao , Michael Vasmer , Anirban Chowdhury

Simulating open quantum systems on quantum computers presents a fundamental challenge: open quantum dynamics are intrinsically nonunitary, whereas quantum computers operate through unitary evolution. Conventional approaches overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sameer Dambal , Akira Sone , Yu Zhang

Simulation of a quantum many-body system at finite temperatures is crucially important but quite challenging. Here we present an experimentally feasible quantum algorithm assisted with continuous-variable for simulating quantum systems at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dan-Bo Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Emerging quantum hardware provides new possibilities for quantum simulation. While much of the research has focused on simulating closed quantum systems, the real-world quantum systems are mostly open. Therefore, it is essential to develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Huo Chen , Niladri Gomes , Siyuan Niu , Wibe Albert de Jong

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics (DeePMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Roberto Car , Weinan E

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) has been shown to be effective in simulating heat conduction in certain molecular junctions since it inherently takes into account some essential methodological components which are lacking with quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Renai Chen , Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh , Abraham Nitzan

Atomistic spin dynamics (ASD) is a standard tool to model the magnetization dynamics of a variety of materials. The fundamental dynamical model underlying ASD is entirely classical. In this paper, we present two approaches to effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Marco Berritta , Stefano Scali , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

Photo-induced processes are fundamental in nature, but accurate simulations are seriously limited by the cost of the underlying quantum chemical calculations, hampering their application for long time scales. Here we introduce a method…

Quantum computational chemistry holds great promise for simulating molecular systems more efficiently than classical methods by leveraging quantum bits to represent molecular wavefunctions. However, current implementations face significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Weitang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang , Zirui Sheng , Cunxi Gong , Jianpeng Chen , Zhigang Shuai

Quantum simulation of chemical systems is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver, a leading algorithm for molecular simulations on quantum hardware, has a serious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Harper R. Grimsley , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes , Nicholas J. Mayhall

In this paper we develop a quantum algorithm to realize finite temperature simulation on a quantum computer. As quantum computers use real-time evolution we did not use the imaginary time methods popular on classical algorithms. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

We present a hybrid continuum-atomistic scheme which combines molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with on-the-fly machine learning techniques for the accurate and efficient prediction of multiscale fluidic systems. By using a Gaussian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-16 David Stephenson , James R Kermode , Duncan A Lockerby

Molecular dynamics with the stochastic process provides a convenient way to compute structural and thermodynamic properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems. It is demonstrated that the virtual dynamics case that we proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Dezhang Li , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu

Owing to their small mass, hydrogen atoms exhibit strong quantum behavior even at room temperature. Including these effects in first principles calculations is challenging, because of the huge computational effort required by conventional…

The presence of noise is currently one of the main obstacles to achieving large-scale quantum computation. Strategies to characterise and understand noise processes in quantum hardware are a critical part of mitigating it, especially as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Emilio Onorati , Tamara Kohler , Toby S. Cubitt

Quantum systems are inherently open and susceptible to environmental noise, which can have both detrimental and beneficial effects on their dynamics. This phenomenon has been observed in bio-molecular systems, where noise enables novel…

We present a method, based on a non-Markovian Langevin equation, to include quantum corrections to the classical dynamics of ions in a quasi-harmonic system. By properly fitting the correlation function of the noise, one can vary the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-15 Michele Ceriotti , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

We have investigated by molecular dynamics method the influence of a finite number of particles used in computer simulations on fluctuations of thermodynamic properties. As a case study, we used the two-dimensional Lennard-Jones system. 2D…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-05 M. V. Kondrin , Y. B. Lebed