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We explore how the fundamental problems in quantum molecular dynamics can be modelled using classical simulators (emulators) of quantum computers and the actual quantum hardware available to us today. The list of problems we tackle includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Tamila Kuanysheva , Brian Kendrick , Lukasz Cincio , Dmitri Babikov

The accurate computation of ground and excited states of many-fermion quantum systems is one of the most consequential, contemporary challenges in the physical and computational sciences whose solution stands to benefit significantly from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 S. E. Smart , D. A. Mazziotti

This thesis covers various aspects of open systems in classical and quantum mechanics. In the first part, we deal with classical systems. The bath-of-oscillators formalism is used to describe an open system, and the phenomenological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-04 Lee Chee Kong

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

We develop a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to solve a type of linear reaction-diffusion equation, the neutron diffusion (generalized) k-eigenvalue problem that establishes nuclear criticality. The algorithm handles an equation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Andrew M. Childs , Lincoln Johnston , Brian Kiedrowski , Mahathi Vempati , Jeffery Yu

Quantum Computing is believed to be the ultimate solution for quantum chemistry problems. Before the advent of large-scale, fully fault-tolerant quantum computers, the variational quantum eigensolver~(VQE) is a promising heuristic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Chu Guo , Yi Fan , Zhiqian Xu , Honghui Shang

Simulating electron-nucleus coupled dynamics poses a non-trivial challenge and an important problem in the investigation of ultrafast processes involving coupled electronic and vibrational dynamics. Because irreversibility of the system…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Tatsushi Ikeda , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Quantum algorithms for quantum dynamics simulations are traditionally based on implementing a Trotter-approximation of the time-evolution operator. This approach typically relies on deep circuits and is therefore hampered by the substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Alexander Miessen , Pauline J. Ollitrault , Ivano Tavernelli

Quantum computers have the potential to simulate chemical systems beyond the capability of classical computers. Recent developments in hybrid quantum-classical approaches enable the determinations of the ground or low energy states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Chee-Kong Lee , Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau , Liang Shi , Leong Chuan Kwek

Quantum computing brings a promise of new approaches into computational quantum chemistry. While universal, fault-tolerant quantum computers are still not available, we want to utilize today's noisy quantum processors. One of their flagship…

In quantum mechanics, a classical particle is raised to a wave-function, thereby acquiring many more degrees of freedom. For instance, in the semi-classical regime, while the position and momentum expectation values follow the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Etera R. Livine

In this article, we study quantum randomness of stochastic cosmological particle production scenario using quantum corrected higher order Fokker Planck equation. Using the one to one correspondence between particle production in presence of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Sayantan Choudhury , Arkaprava Mukherjee

We explore the concept of emergent quantum-like theory in complex adaptive systems, and examine in particular the concrete example of such an emergent (or "mock") quantum theory in the Lotka-Volterra system. In general, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Tristan Hubsch , Djordje Minic , Konstantin Nikolic , Sinisa Pajevic

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,…

We perform a numerical approximation of coherent sets in finite-dimensional smooth dynamical systems by computing singular vectors of the transfer operator for a stochastically perturbed flow. This operator is obtained by solution of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Andreas Denner , Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes

Digital quantum computers promise exponential speedups in performing quantum time-evolution, providing an opportunity to simulate quantum dynamics of complex systems in physics and chemistry. However, the task of extracting desired quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Chong Hian Chee , Daniel Leykam , Adrian M. Mak , Kishor Bharti , Dimitris G. Angelakis

The variational principle serves as a fundamental framework for describing equilibrium states of physical systems via the minimization or extremization of an energy-like functional. While quantum algorithms have demonstrated promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Katsuhiro Endo , Kazuaki Z. Takahashi

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize our ability to simulate molecules, and cloud-based hardware is becoming increasingly accessible to a wide body of researchers. Algorithms such as Quantum Phase Estimation and the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Kyle Sherbert , Frank Cerasoli , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Quantum computers promise to efficiently solve important problems that are intractable on a conventional computer. For quantum systems, where the dimension of the problem space grows exponentially, finding the eigenvalues of certain…

The social worker scheduling problem is a class of combinatorial optimization problems that combines scheduling with routing issues. These types of problems with classical computing can only be solved, in the best of cases, in an…