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In this contribution, we extend our framework for analyzing and visualizing correlated many-electron dynamics to non-variational, highly scalable electronic structure method. Specifically, an explicitly time-dependent electronic wave packet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Gunter Hermann , Vincent Pohl , Jean Christophe Tremblay

We prove the existence of the exact density-functional theory formalism for open electronic systems, and develop subsequently an exact time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) formulation for the dynamic response. The TDDFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zheng , GuanHua Chen

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

The real-time electronic dynamics on material surfaces is critically important to a variety of applications. However, their simulations have remained challenging for conventional methods such as the time-dependent density-functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rulin Wang , Dong Hou , Xiao Zheng

Time-dependent (current) density functional theory for many-electron systems strongly coupled to quantized electromagnetic modes of a microcavity is proposed. It is shown that the electron-photon wave function is a unique functional of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 I. V. Tokatly

We present a time-dependent study of electron transport through a strongly correlated quantum dot. The time-dependent current is obtained with the multiple-probe battery method, while adiabatic lattice density functional theory in the Bethe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 A. Pertsova , M. Stamenova , S. Sanvito

We simulate the dynamics of a single-electron source, modeled as a quantum dot with on-site Coulomb interaction and tunnel coupling to an adjacent lead, in time-dependent density functional theory. Based on this system, we develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser , Nicole Helbig

Due to a beneficial balance of computational cost and accuracy, real-time time-dependent density functional theory has emerged as a promising first-principles framework to describe electron real-time dynamics. Here we discuss recent…

We present an application of the Extended Stochastic Liouville-von Neumann equations (ESLN) method introduced earlier [PRB 95, 125124 (2017); PRB 97, 224310 (2018)] which describes the dynamics of an exactly thermalised open quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 M. A. Lane , D. Matos , I. J. Ford , L. Kantorovich

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Thomas Elze

The control of open quantum systems has a fundamental relevance for fields ranging from quantum information processing to nanotechnology. Typically, the system whose coherent dynamics one wants to manipulate, interacts with an environment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-20 Gonzalo A. Alvarez

Using an effective Hamiltonian including the Zeeman and internal interactions, we describe the quantum theory of magnetization dynamics when the spin system evolves non-adiabatically and out of equilibrium. The Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 F. M. Saradzhev , F. C. Khanna , Sang Pyo Kim , M. de Montigny

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , Malte Krug , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

This work investigates the dynamics of closed quantum systems in the Bloch vector representation using methods from rigid body dynamics and the theory of integrable systems. To this end, equations of motion for Bloch components are derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Albert Huber , Paul Schreivogl

The Lindblad equation is widely employed in studies of Markovian quantum open systems. Here, firstly, a simple result is presented on the time evolution of the non Neumann entropy under the Lindblad equation, which enables one to examine if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Congjie Ou , Ralph V. Chamberlin , Sumiyoshi Abe

We present a detailed account of the technical aspects of stochastic quantum molecular dynamics, an approach introduced recently by the authors [H. Appel and M. Di Ventra, Phys. Rev. B 80 212303 (2009)] to describe coupled electron-ion…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-27 Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Quantum computers can be used to simulate nonlinear non-Hamiltonian classical dynamics on phase space by using the generalized Koopman-von Neumann formulation of classical mechanics. The Koopman-von Neumann formulation implies that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Ilon Joseph

The incoherent dynamical properties of open quantum systems are generically attributed to an ongoing correlation between the system and its environment. Here, we propose a novel way to assess the nature of these system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Hong-Bin Chen , Clemens Gneiting , Ping-Yuan Lo , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

Using Kubo's linear response theory, we derive expressions for the frequency-dependent electrical conductivity (Kubo-Greenwood formula), thermopower, and thermal conductivity in a strongly correlated electron system. These are evaluated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Bastian Holst , Martin French , Ronald Redmer