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The study of Koopman and Liouville operators over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) has been gaining considerable interest over the past decade. In particular, these operators represent nonlinear dynamical systems, and through the…

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The dynamics of open quantum systems is formulated in a minimally extended state space comprising the degrees of freedom of a system of interest and a finite set of non-unitary, pure-state reservoir modes. This formal structure, derived…

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The simulation of quantum systems has been a key aim of quantum technologies for decades, and the generalisation to open systems is necessary to include physically realistic systems. We introduce an approach for quantum simulations of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Daniel Burgarth

We present a novel theoretical formulation for performing quantum dynamics in terms of moments within the single-particle description. By expressing the quantum dynamics in terms of increasing orders of moments, instead of single-particle…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Nicholas Boyer , Christopher Shepard , Ruiyi Zhou , Jianhang Xu , Yosuke Kanai

Quantum trajectory techniques have been used in the theory of open systems as a starting point for numerical computations and to describe the monitoring of a quantum system in continuous time. Here we extend this technique and use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli

A general method of quantum-to-classical reduction of quantum dynamics is described. The key aspect of our method is the similarity transformation of the Liouvillian, which provides a new perspective. In conventional studies of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-09 Norikazu Kamiya

Each scheme of state reconstruction comes down to parametrize the state of a quantum system by expectation values or probabilities directly measurable in an experiment. It is argued that the time evolution of these quantities provides an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Stefan Weigert

Dissipation and irreversibility are central to most physical processes, yet they lead to non-unitary dynamics that are challenging to realise on quantum processors. High-order operator splitting is an attractive approach for simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Peter Brearley , Philipp Pfeffer

Variational quantum algorithms offer a promising new paradigm for solving partial differential equations on near-term quantum computers. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for solving a general evolution equation through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Fong Yew Leong , Wei-Bin Ewe , Dax Enshan Koh

State-of-the-art quantum simulators permit local temporal control of interactions and midcircuit readout. These capabilities open the way towards the exploration of intriguing nonequilibrium phenomena. We illustrate this with a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Marcel Cech , María Cea , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

In this paper we shall re-visit the well-known Schr\"odinger and Lindblad dynamics of quantum mechanics. However, these equations may be realized as the consequence of a more general, underlying dynamical process. In both cases we shall see…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Matthew F. Brown

Quantum information platforms enable analog quantum simulations, such as quantum annealing, offering a promising route to solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. Here, we propose a quantum information architecture based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yana Komissarova , Mikhail V. Fistul , Ilya M. Eremin

We present a quantum algorithm for finding the minimum of a function based on multistep quantum computation and apply it for optimization problems with continuous variables, in which the variables of the problem are discretized to form the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Hefeng Wang , Hua Xiang

We provide a detailed analysis of the disk path integral of timelike Liouville theory, conceived as a tractable and precise toy-model quantum cosmology in two dimensions. Disk path integrals with the insertion of matter field operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Dionysios Anninos , Thomas Hertog , Joel Karlsson

We investigate convergence properties of discrete-time semigroup quantum dynamics, including asymptotic stability, probability and speed of convergence to pure states and subspaces. These properties are of interest in both the analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Giuseppe Ilario Cirillo , Francesco Ticozzi

We consider quantum phase-space dynamics using Wigner's representation of quantum mechanics. We stress the usefulness of the integral form for the description of Wigner's phase-space current~$\bm J$ as an alternative to the popular Moyal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Maxime Oliva , Ole Steuernagel

How well can quantum computers simulate classical dynamical systems? There is increasing effort in developing quantum algorithms to efficiently simulate dynamics beyond Hamiltonian simulation, but so far exact resource estimates are not…

Quantum dynamics on curved spacetime has never been directly probed beyond the Newtonian limit. Although we can describe such dynamics theoretically, experiments would provide empirical evidence that quantum theory holds even in this…

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An equation describing subdiffusion with possible immobilization of particles is derived by means of the continuous time random walk model. The equation contains a fractional time derivative of Riemann--Liouville type which is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-09 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

We propose a hybrid approach to simulate quantum many body dynamics by combining Trotter based quantum algorithm with classical dynamic mode decomposition. The interest often lies in estimating observables rather than explicitly obtaining…

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