English
Related papers

Related papers: An improved path-integral method for golden-rule r…

200 papers

A general semiclassical theory for the calculation of reaction rate constants is developed. The theory can be understood as a formal framework that encompasses existing semiclassical methods: instanton theory and semiclassical transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Joseph E. Lawrence

Semiclassical instanton theory captures nuclear quantum effects such as tunnelling in chemical reactions. It was originally derived from two different starting points, the flux correlation function and the ImF premise. In pursuit of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Rhiannon A. Zarotiadis , Jeremy O. Richardson

We apply Thermostatted Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (TRPMD), a recently-proposed approximate quantum dynamics method, to the computation of thermal reaction rates. Its short-time Transition-State Theory (TST) limit is identical to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Timothy J. H. Hele , Yury V. Suleimanov

A new approach with BRST invariance is suggested to cure the degeneracy problem of ill defined path integrals in the path-integral calculationof quantum mechanical tunneling effects in which the problem arises due to the occurrence of zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten

We study the TST reaction rate for the systems with power-law distributions. We derive the expressions of the reaction rate coefficient with tunneling correction, which strongly depends on the power-law parameter. The numerical results show…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Cangtao Yin , Yanjun Zhou , Jiulin Du

We derive rates of convergence for limit theorems that reveal the intricate structure of the phase transitions in a mean-field version of the Blume-Emery-Griffith model. The theorems consist of scaling limits for the total spin. The model…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Peter Eichelsbacher , Bastian Martschink

Spatial multiscale methods have established themselves as useful tools for extending the length scales accessible by conventional statics (i.e., zero temperature molecular dynamics). Recently, extensions of these methods, such as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Andrew Binder , Mitchell Luskin , Danny Perez , Arthur F. Voter

By considering correlations between classical orbits we derive semiclassical expressions for the decay of the quantum fidelity amplitude for classically chaotic quantum systems, as well as for its squared modulus, the fidelity or Loschmidt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Boris Gutkin , Daniel Waltner , Martha Gutierrez , Jack Kuipers , Klaus Richter

We study the sensitivity of phase estimation using a generic class of path-symmetric entangled states $|\varphi\rangle|0\rangle+|0\rangle|\varphi\rangle$, where an arbitrary state $|\varphi\rangle$ occupies one of two modes in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Su-Yong Lee , Chang-Woo Lee , Jaehak Lee , Hyunchul Nha

The Finite State Projection (FSP) method approximates the Chemical Master Equation (CME) by restricting the dynamics to a finite subset of the (typically infinite) state space, enabling direct numerical solution with computable error…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Aditya Dendukuri , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Linda Petzold

We present a Fermi golden rule giving rates of decay of states obtained by perturbing embedded eigenvalues of a quantum graph. To illustrate the procedure in a notationally simpler setting we also present a Fermi Golden Rule for boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Minjae Lee , Maciej Zworski

The performance of quantum resource manipulation protocols, including key examples such as distillation of quantum entanglement, is measured in terms of the rate at which desired target states can be produced from a given noisy state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

This paper focuses on a class of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in three dimensions, which are Hamiltonian perturbations of the linear Klein-Gordon equation with potential. The unperturbed dynamical system has a bound state with frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Zhen Lei , Jie Liu , Zhaojie Yang

The evaluation of nucleation rates from molecular dynamics trajectories is hampered by the slow nucleation time scale and impact of finite size effects. Here, we show that accurate nucleation rates can be obtained in a very general fashion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Kristof M. Bal

In this work, the rate law for inhomogeneous concentration distributions has been formulated, by applying spatial integration over the products of species concentrations. Reaction rates for typical reactions have been investigated by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiang-Yuan Li , Xin-Yu Zhang , ChuanFeng Yue

Surprisingly, there exists a quantum flux-side time-correlation function which has a non-zero short-time (t->0+) limit, and thus yields a rigorous quantum generalization of classical transition-state theory (TST). In this Part I of two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Timothy J. H. Hele , Stuart C. Althorpe

Ring-polymer instanton theory has been developed to simulate the quantum dynamics of molecular systems at low temperatures. Chemical reaction rates can be obtained by locating the dominant tunneling pathway and analyzing fluctuations around…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Pierre Winter , Jeremy O. Richardson

An adaptive BDF2 implicit time-stepping method is analyzed for the phase field crystal model. The suggested method is proved to preserve a modified energy dissipation law at the discrete levels if the time-step ratios…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Hong-lin Liao , Bingquan Ji , Luming Zhang

The definition of the classical transition state theory (TST) as a t= 0+ limit of the flux-side time correlation function relies on the assumption that simultaneous measurement of population and flux is a well defined physical process.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Seogjoo Jang , Gregory A. Voth

Semiclassical instanton theory is a form of quantum transition-state theory which can be applied to computing thermal reaction rates for complex molecular systems including quantum tunneling effects. There have been a number of attempts to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Fang , Pierre Winter , Jeremy O. Richardson