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We describe quantum behaviors of a simple harmonic oscillator, starting from the classical mechanics. By imposing two conditions on the phase points generated from a symplectic algorithm, we obtain discrete energy levels, satisfying $E_n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Sangrak Kim

Determining quantum excited states is crucial across physics and chemistry but presents significant challenges for variational methods, primarily due to the need to enforce orthogonality to lower-energy states, often requiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Shi-Xin Zhang , Lei Wang

We scatter a meson off of a scalar kink in quantum field theory, at leading order in perturbation theory. We calculate the full quantum state, at leading order, at all times and also check that the reflection and transmission coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-25 Jarah Evslin , Hui Liu

We present an analytic result for the 1-loop quantum mass correction in semiclassical quantization for the twisted \phi^4 kink on S^1 without explicit knowledge of the fluctuation spectrum. For this purpose we use the contour integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-02 Michael Pawellek

A quantum system of interacting particles under the effect of a static external potential is hereby described as kicked when that potential suddenly starts moving with a constant velocity v. If initially in a stationary state, the excess…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-06 Nuria Santervás-Arranz , Massimiliano Stengel , Emilio Artacho

We compute second-order quantum corrections, as quantum dispersions and correlations, to a cosmological model coupling a single scalar perturbation mode to a bouncing background within Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Héctor Hernández Hernández , Hugo Morales Técotl , Gustavo Sánchez Herrera

We calculate quantum corrections to the mass of noncommutative phi^4 kink in (1+1) dimensions for intermediate and large values of the noncommutativity parameter theta. All one-loop divergences are removed by a mass renormalization (which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Konoplya , D. V. Vassilevich

We calculate transition amplitudes and probabilities between the coherent and Fock states of a quantum harmonic oscillator with a moving center for an arbitrary law of motion. These quantities are determined by the Fourier transform of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 Viktor V. Dodonov

We develop a system consisting of a quantum kicked rotor with an additional degree of freedom. This models a single two-level atom with internal ground and excited states, and it is characterized by its quantum resonances with ballistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Guzmán Hernández , Alejandro Romanelli

We explore the possibility of calculating electronic excited states by using perturbation theory along a range-separated adiabatic connection. Starting from the energies of a partially interacting Hamiltonian, a first-order correction is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker , Andreas Savin

We consider quantum corrections to a kink of noncommutative supersymmetric phi^4 theory in 1+1 dimensions. Despite the presence of an infinite number of time derivatives in the action, we are able to define supercharges and a Hamiltonian by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 D. V. Vassilevich

Theoretical approaches to one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional quantum rings with a few electrons are reviewed. Discrete Hubbard-type models and continuum models are shown to give similar results governed by the special features of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Viefers , P. Koskinen , P. Singha Deo , M. Manninen

Quantum initial state estimation through entanglement and continuous measurement is introduced. This paper provides a unified formulation of classical and quantum smoothing and shows a smoothing uncertainty relation. As an example, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 Masahiro Yanagisawa

In this paper, we work on the pure and mixed cluster models with periodic boundary condition. The first purpose is to establish the concept of quantum cluster kink. We clarify that there are two types of cluster kinks since there are two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-31 Zhen-Yu Zheng , Han-Chuan Kou , Peng Li

The paper introduces a simple quantum model to calculate in a general way allowed frequencies and energy levels of the anharmonic oscillator. The theoretical basis of the approach has been introduced in two early papers aimed to infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Sebastiano Tosto

A systematic formalism for quantum electrodynamics in a classical uniform magnetic field is discussed. The first order radiative correction to the ground state energy of an electron is calculated. This then leads to the anomalous magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun Suzuki

Under certain conditions, the quantum delta-kicked harmonic oscillator displays quantum resonances. We consider an atom-optical realization of the delta-kicked harmonic oscillator, and present a theoretical discussion of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 T. P. Billam , S. A. Gardiner

A kink-based expression for the canonical partition function is developed using Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and a discrete basis set. The approach is exact for a complete set of states. The method is tested on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall W. Hall

The modes of the electromagnetic field are solutions of Maxwell's equations taking into account the material boundary conditions. The field modes of classical optics - properly normalized - are also the mode functions of quantum optics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Birgit Stiller , Ulrich Seyfarth , Gerd Leuchs

The spectral properties of up to four interacting electrons confined within a quasi one--dimensional system of finite length are determined by numerical diagonalization including the spin degree of freedom. The ground state energy is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfgang Haeusler , Bernhard Kramer , PTB Braunschweig