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Density matrix perturbation theory [Niklasson and Challacombe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 193001 (2004)] is generalized to canonical (NVT) free energy ensembles in tight-binding, Hartree-Fock or Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The canonical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Anders M. N. Niklasson , Marc J. Cawkwell , Emanuel H. Rubensson , Elias Rudberg

An exact result for the reduced density matrix on a finite interval for a $1+1$ dimensional free real scalar field in the ground state is presented. In the massless case, the Williamson decomposition of the appearing kernels is explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Mikhail A. Baranov

Density matrix perturbation theory based on recursive Fermi-operator expansions provides a computationally efficient framework for time-independent response calculations in quantum chemistry and materials science. From a perturbation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Anders M. N. Niklasson , Adela Habib , Joshua Finkelstein , Emanuel H. Rubensson

A direct measurement protocol allows reconstructing specific elements of the density matrix of a quantum state without using quantum state tomography. However, the direct measurement protocols to date are primarily based on weak or strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Tianfeng Feng , Changliang Ren , Xiaoqi Zhou

We evaluate the density matrix of an arbitrary quantum mechanical system in terms of the quantities pertinent to the solution of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) problem. Our theory utilizes the adiabatic connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vladimir U. Nazarov

Computing a perturbative S-matrix through Feynman series in quantum field theory, the regularization used does not affect the final result. We propose a new approach to construction of the perturbative S-matrices, so that they will depend…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic

We provide a brief overview of approaches for calculating the density of states of quantum systems and random matrix Hamiltonians using the tools of free probability theory. For a given Hamiltonian of a quantum system or a generic random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Keun-Young Kim , Kuntal Pal

As a new approach to efficiently describe correlation effects in the relativistic quantum world we propose to consider reduced density matrix functional theory, where the key quantity is the first-order reduced density matrix (1-RDM). In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 M. Rodríguez-Mayorga , K. J. H. Giesbertz , L. Visscher

In this work, we present a multiple-scale perturbation technique suitable for the study of open quantum systems, which is easy to implement and in few iterative steps allows us to find excellent approximate solutions. For any time-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 D. N. Bernal-García , B. A. Rodríguez , H. Vinck-Posada

We derive a new perturbative quantum master equation for the reduced density matrix of a system interacting with an environment (with a dense spectrum of energy levels). The total system energy (system plus environment) is constant and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Esposito , Pierre Gaspard

Understanding the roles of the temporary and spatial structures of quantum functional noise in open multilevel quantum molecular systems attracts a lot of theoretical interests. I want to establish a rigorous and general framework for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xin Chen

To leverage the redundancy between the electronic structure computed at each step of first-principles molecular dynamics, we present a data-driven modeling framework for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that bypasses the explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Jonas Kaufman , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

We discuss the prospects of performing high-order perturbative calculations in systems characterized by a vanishing temperature but finite density. In particular, we show that the determination of generic Feynman integrals containing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Ioan Ghisoiu , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Paul Romatschke , Matias Säppi , Aleksi Vuorinen

In the fields of quantum mechanics and quantum information science, the traces of reduced density matrix powers play a crucial role in the study of quantum systems and have numerous important applications. In this paper, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Rui-Qi Zhang , Xiao-Qi Liu , Jing Wang , Ming Li , Shu-Qian Shen , Shao-Ming Fei

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method capable of sampling the full density matrix of a many-particle system at finite temperature. This allows arbitrary reduced density matrix elements and expectation values of complicated non-local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. S. Blunt , T. W. Rogers , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

In a recent paper we have suggested that the finite temperature density matrix can be computed efficiently by a combination of polynomial expansion and iterative inversion techniques. We present here significant improvements over this…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-19 Michele Ceriotti , Thomas D. Kühne , Michele Parrinello

Hubertus J. J. van Dam [Phys. Rev. A 93, 052512, 2016] claims that the one-particle reduced density matrix (1RDM) of an interacting system can be represented by means of a single-determinant wavefunction of fictitious non-interacting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Mario Piris , Katarzyna Pernal

We consider the impact of a weakly coupled environment comprising a light scalar field on the open dynamics of a quantum probe field, resulting in a master equation for the probe field that features corrections to the coherent dynamics, as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-11 Clare Burrage , Christian Käding , Peter Millington , Jiří Minář

For a prototype quadratic Hamiltonian describing a driven, dissipative system, exact matrix elements of the reduced density matrix are obtained from a generating function in terms of the normal characteristic functions. The approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Sh. Saedi , F. Kheirandish

One drawback of conventional quantum state tomography is that it does not readily provide access to single density matrix elements, since it requires a global reconstruction. Here we experimentally demonstrate a scheme that can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 G. S. Thekkadath , L. Giner , Y. Chalich , M. J. Horton , J. Banker , J. S. Lundeen