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The automation of ab initio simulations is essential in view of performing high-throughput (HT) computational screenings oriented to the discovery of novel materials with desired physical properties. In this work, we propose algorithms and…

The deterministic and time-reversal symmetric dynamics of isolated quantum systems is at odds with irreversible equilibration observed in generic thermodynamic systems. Standard approaches at a reconciliation employ subjective restrictions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Aritro Mukherjee

Quantum spin models with a large number of interaction partners per spin are frequently used to describe modern many-body quantum optical systems like arrays of Rydberg atoms, atom-cavity systems or trapped ion crystals. For theoretical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-03 Benedikt Schneider , Ruben Burkard , Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky , Björn Sbierski

With the development of low order scaling methods for performing Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory, it is now possible to perform fully quantum mechanical calculations of systems containing tens of thousands of atoms. However, with an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 William Dawson , Stephan Mohr , Laura E. Ratcliff , Takahito Nakajima , Luigi Genovese

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

There is widespread interest in many-body quantum systems that exhibit limit-cycle or time-crystalline behaviour. An ideal quantum limit cycle would be realized using fully coherent driving (to minimize noise) and also have a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sihan Chen , Aashish A. Clerk

A quantum dissipation theory is formulated in terms of hierarchically coupled equations of motion for an arbitrary electronic system coupled with grand canonical Fermion bath ensembles. The theoretical construction starts with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 Jinshuang Jin , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

With the present trend in experimental particle physics of probing yet shorter distances and with the requirement on the theoretical side of renormalizability, conformal invariance becomes an attractive symmetry for particle interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-29 A. D. Alhaidari

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller

A numerical algorithm for studying strongly correlated electron systems is proposed. The groundstate wavefunction is projected out after numerical renormalization procedure in the path integral formalism. The wavefunction is expressed from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Imada , Tsuyoshi Kashima

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

Theoretical research into many-body quantum systems has mostly focused on regular structures which have a small, simple unit cell and where a vanishingly small number of pairs of the constituents directly interact. Motivated by advances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Joseph Tindall , Amy Searle , Abdulla Alhajri , Dieter Jaksch

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we draw a connection between localized quantum field theories and more commonly used models of local probes in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI). By integrating over and then tracing out the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Bruno de S. L. Torres

The path-integral quantization of thermal scalar, vector and spinor fields is performed newly in the coherent-state representation. In doing this, we choose the thermal electrodynamics and $\phi ^4$ theory as examples. By this quantization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Chen Su , Fu-Hou Zheng

There has been much work in the recent past in developing the idea of quantum geometry to characterize and understand the structure of many-particle states. For mean-field states, the quantum geometry has been defined and analysed in terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 S. R. Hassan , Ankita Chakrabarti , R. Shankar

We construct the path integral formulation of the partition function for a free scalar thermal field theory using coherent states, first in the ladder operator basis and then in the field operator basis. In so doing, we provide for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Rens Roosenstein , Maximilian Attems , W. A. Horowitz

In this contribution a path integral approach for the quantum motion on three-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short``Koenigs-Spaces'', is discussed. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Christian Grosche

A general and rigorous methodology to compute the quantum equilibrium isotope effect is described. Unlike standard approaches, ours does not assume separability of rotational and vibrational motions and does not make the harmonic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

We study the path integral formulation of Friedmann universe filled with a massless scalar field in loop quantum cosmology. All the isotropic models of $k=0,+1,-1$ are considered. To construct the path integrals in the timeless framework, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 Haiyun Huang , Yongge Ma , Li Qin

These lectures are intended for graduate students who want to acquire a working knowledge of path integral methods in a wide variety of fields in physics. In general the presentation is elementary and path integrals are developed in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-01 R. Rosenfelder