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Many-body physics is one very well suited field for testing quantum algorithms and for finding working heuristics on present quantum computers. We have investigated the non-equilibrium dynamics of one- and two-electron systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Sabine Tornow , Wolfgang Gehrke , Udo Helmbrecht

We introduce a computational framework for simulating non-adiabatic vibronic dynamics on circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) platforms. Our approach leverages hybrid oscillator-qubit quantum hardware with mid-circuit measurements and…

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Quantum thermodynamics aims at investigating both the emergence and the limits of the laws of thermodynamics from a quantum mechanical microscopic approach. In this scenario, thermodynamic processes with no heat exchange, namely, adiabatic…

We develop a density matrix formalism to describe coupled electron-nuclear dynamics. To this end we introduce an effective Hamiltonian formalism that describes electronic transitions and small (quantum) nuclear fluctuations along a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Eugene Stolyarov , Alexander White , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Quantum computing offers promising new avenues for tackling the long-standing challenge of simulating the quantum dynamics of complex chemical systems, particularly open quantum systems coupled to external baths. However, simulating such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Xiaohan Dan , Eitan Geva , Victor S. Batista

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

We introduce an approach for quantum computing in continuous time based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamic invariants. This approach allows, under certain conditions, for the design of quantum algorithms running on a nonadiabatic regime. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 M. S. Sarandy , E. I. Duzzioni , R. M. Serra

Nuclear quantum phenomena beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation are known to play an important role in a growing number of chemical and biological processes. While there exists no unique consensus on a rigorous and efficient…

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics can provide strong advantages when compared to more standard equilibrium situations. Here, we present a general framework to study its application to concrete problems, which is valid also beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Qiongyuan Wu , Matteo Carlesso

The quantum dynamics of electron-nuclear systems is analyzed from the perspective of the exact factorization of the wavefunction, with the aim of defining gauge invariant equations of motion for both the nuclei and the electrons. For pure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

The coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons is ubiquitous in many dynamical processes involving light-matter interaction, such as solar energy conversion in chemical systems and photosynthesis. A first-principles description of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Jianhang Xu , Ruiyi Zhou , Tao E. Li , Volker Blum , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Yosuke Kanai

In this paper we propose an ab initio method to solve quantum many-body problems of molecular dynamics where both the electronic and the nuclear degrees are represented by ensembles of trajectories and guiding waves in physical space. Both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan P. Christov

A mixed quantum-classical approach to simulate the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei in nanoscale molecular systems is presented. The method relies on a second order expansion of the Lagrangian in time-dependent density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Niehaus , D. Heringer , B. Torralva , Th. Frauenheim

A large spectrum of problems in classical physics and engineering, such as turbulence, is governed by nonlinear differential equations, which typically require high-performance computing to be solved. Over the past decade, however, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-10 Felix Tennie , Sylvain Laizet , Seth Lloyd , Luca Magri

Quantum simulation has begun to penetrate the field of quantum chemistry in hopes of efficiently calculating ground state energies and approximating real-time evolution. With modern research highlighting nonadiabatic dynamics, tunably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Joshua M. Courtney , P. C. Stancil

Quantum computers hold great promise for arriving at exact simulations of nuclear dynamical processes (e.g., scattering and reactions) that are paramount to the study of nuclear matter at the limit of stability and to explaining the…

Quantum computation has emerged as a powerful computational medium of our time, having demonstrated the remarkable efficiency in factoring a positive integer and searching databases faster than any currently known classical computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical approximate optimization algorithm for photonic quantum computing, specifically tailored for addressing continuous-variable optimization problems. Inspired by counterdiabatic protocols, our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Pranav Chandarana , Koushik Paul , Mikel Garcia-de-Andoin , Yue Ban , Mikel Sanz , Xi Chen

We propose an excited-state molecular dynamics simulation method based on variational quantum algorithms at a computational cost comparable to that of ground-state simulations. We utilize the feature that excited states can be obtained as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai

Quantum algorithms are prominent in the pursuit of achieving quantum advantage in various computational tasks. However, addressing challenges, such as limited qubit coherence and high error rate in near-term devices, requires extensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Julián Ferreiro-Vélez , Iñaki Iriarte-Zendoia , Yue Ban , Xi Chen