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We discuss time dependent quantum systems on bounded domains. Our work may be viewed as a framework for several models, including linear iterations involved in time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), the Hartree-Fock model, or…

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We introduce time-dependent variational principles to study the non-unitary dynamics of open quantum many-body systems, including dynamics described by the full Lindblad master equation, the non-Hermitian dynamics corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Pasquale Filice , Marco Schirò , Giacomo Mazza

This is a review paper concerned with the global consistency of the quantum dynamics of non-commutative systems. Our point of departure is the theory of constrained systems, since it provides a unified description of the classical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 F. S. Bemfica , H. O. Girotti

Continuous-time determinantal algorithm is proposed for the quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the interacting fermions. The scheme does not invoke Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. The fermionic action is divided into two parts. One of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Rubtsov

The solutions of the time independent Schrodinger equation for non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have been extensively studied and calculated in many different fields of physics by using L^2 methods that originally have been developed for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ido Gilary , Avner Fleischer , Nimrod Moiseyev

All elementary Hamiltonians in nature are expected to be invariant under rotation. Despite this restriction, we usually assume that any arbitrary measurement or unitary time evolution can be implemented on a physical system, an assumption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Marvian , R. B. Mann

We present random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends towards steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao Chen , Yaodong Li , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Andrew Lucas

Describing systems with non-Hermitian (NH) operators remains a challenge in quantum theory due to instabilities (e.g., exceptional points and decoherence) arising from interactions with the environment. We propose a framework to express the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Priyanshi Bhasin , Tanmoy Das

The stroboscopic evolution of a time-periodically driven isolated quantum system can always be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian. Whether this concept can be generalized to open Floquet systems, described by a Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Alexander Schnell , André Eckardt , Sergey Denisov

The sensitivity of the evolution of quantum uncertainties to the choice of the initial conditions is shown via a complex nonlinear Riccati equation leading to a reformulation of quantum dynamics. This sensitivity is demonstrated for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hans Cruz , Dieter Schuch , Octavio Castaños , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

The operational approach to time is a cornerstone of relativistic theories, as evidenced by the notion of proper time. In standard quantum mechanics, however, time is an external parameter. Recently, many attempts have been made to extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Ismael L. Paiva , Amit Te'eni , Bar Y. Peled , Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

An alternative approach to lattice gauge theory has been under development for the past decade. It is based on discretizing the operator Heisenberg equations of motion in such a way as to preserve the canonical commutation relations at each…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Kimball A. Milton

We construct a large class of completely positive and trace preserving non-Markovian dynamical maps for an open quantum system. These maps arise from a piecewise dynamics characterized by a continuous time evolution interrupted by jumps,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Bassano Vacchini

Quantum speed-ups for dynamical simulation usually demand unitary time-evolution, whereas the large ODE/PDE systems encountered in realistic physical models are generically non-unitary. We present a universal moment-fulfilling dilation that…

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We present a mapping of potentially chaotic time-dependent quantum kicked systems to an equivalent effective time-independent scenario, whereby the system is rendered integrable. The time-evolution is factorized into an initial kick,…

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In light of recent exciting progress in building up quantum computing facilities based on both optical and cold-atom techniques, the algorithms for quantum simulations of particle-physics systems are in rapid progress. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Ying Chen , Yunheng Ma , Shun Zhou

This paper continues the previous work (Quantum Inf. Process (2019)) by two authors of the present paper about a spectral mapping property of chiral symmetric unitary operators. In physics, they treat non-unitary time-evolution operators to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Keisuke Asahara , Daiju Funakawa , Etsuo Segawa , Akito Suzuki , Noriaki Teranishi

We propose an iterative algorithm to simulate the dynamics generated by any $n$-qubit Hamiltonian. The simulation entails decomposing the unitary time evolution operator $U$ (unitary) into a product of different time-step unitaries. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 Ashok Ajoy , Rama Koteswara Rao , Anil Kumar , Pranaw Rungta

It is recently shown by Asahara-Funakawa-Seki-Tanaka that existing index theory for chirally symmetric (discrete-time) quantum walks can be extended to the setting of non-unitary quantum walks. More precisely, they consider a certain…

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