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This paper investigates the feasibility of simulating Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with a reduced number of spatial dimensions. Our aim is to set up a realistic, yet numerically inexpensive, toy model in $(1+1)$-dimensional space time, that -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , Nico Schwersenz , Massimo Pietroni , Sandro Wimberger

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

We present a mapping of the nonlinear, electrostatic Vlasov equation with Krook-type collision operators, discretized on a (1+1) dimensional grid, onto a recent Carleman linearization-based quantum algorithm for solving ordinary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tamás Vaszary , Animesh Datta , Tom Goffrey , Brian Appelbe

Classical simulation of open quantum system dynamics remains challenging due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space, the need to accurately capture dissipation and decoherence, and the added complexity of memory effects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Sujay Mondal , Siddhartha Dutta , Abhijit Bandyopadhyay

We present an efficient numerical algorithm for evolving self-gravitating systems of dark-matter particles that leverages the assumption of spherical symmetry to reduce the nominally six-dimensional phase space to three dimensions. It can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Kris R. Sigurdson

Firstly, the Markovian stochastic Schr\"odinger equations are presented, together with their connections with the theory of measurements in continuous time. Moreover, the stochastic evolution equations are translated into a simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 I. Semina , V. Semin , F. Petruccione , A. Barchielli

We discuss a new algorithm to generate multi-scale initial conditions with multiple levels of refinements for cosmological "zoom-in" simulations. The method uses an adaptive convolution of Gaussian white noise with a real space transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Oliver Hahn , Tom Abel

A complete solution to the long standing problem of basing Schroedinger quantum theory on standard stochastic theory is given. The solution covers all "single" particle three-dimensional Schroedinger theory linear or nonlinear and with any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Gilson

In these lecture notes I review the theory of the non--linear evolution of cosmological perturbations in a self--gravitating collisionless medium, with vanishing vorticity. The problem is first analyzed in the context of the Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sabino Matarrese

We present quantum algorithms for the simulation of quantum systems in one spatial dimension, which result in quantum speedups that range from superpolynomial to polynomial. We first describe a method to simulate the evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rolando D. Somma

Computational fluid dynamics lies at the heart of many issues in science and engineering, but solving the associated partial differential equations remains computationally demanding. With the rise of quantum computing, new approaches have…

The Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation describes the evolution of the probability density of the position and velocity of particles under the influence of external confinement, interaction, friction, and stochastic force. It is well-known that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Sangmin Park

We introduce a new method for representing the low energy subspace of a bosonic field theory on the qubit space of digital quantum computers. This discretization leads to an exponentially precise description of the subspace of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alexandru Macridin , Panagiotis Spentzouris , James Amundson , Roni Harnik

Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Samuel Potter

The numerical evolution of Einstein's field equations in a generic background has the potential to answer a variety of important questions in physics: from applications to the gauge-gravity duality, to modelling black hole production in TeV…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Miguel Zilhao , Helvi Witek , Ulrich Sperhake , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos Herdeiro , Andrea Nerozzi

This work discusses a variational approach to determining the time evolution operator. We directly see a glimpse of how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Michael Vogl

We study a Newtonian model which allows us to describe some extremely flat objects in galactic dynamics. This model is described by a partial differential equation system called Vlasov-Poisson, whose solutions describe the temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Matias Moreno

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in three space dimensions. A fixed background of positive charge - dependant upon only velocity - is assumed. The situation in which mobile negative ions balance the positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-06 Stephen Pankavich

We study the non-linear structure formation in cosmology accounting for the quantum nature of the dark matter (DM) particles in the initial conditions at decoupling, as well as in the relaxation and stability of the DM halos. Differently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Carlos R. Argüelles , Eduar A. Becerra-Vergara , Andreas Krut , Rafael Yunis , Jorge A. Rueda , Remo Ruffini

We propose an approach to nonlinear evolution equations with large and decaying external potentials that addresses the question of controlling globally-in-time the nonlinear interactions of localized waves in this setting. This problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Fabio Pusateri , Avy Soffer