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Accurate and efficient simulation of nonadiabatic dynamics is highly desirable for understanding charge and energy transfer in complex systems. A key criterion for obtaining an accurate method is conservation of the Quantum Boltzmann…

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We consider the dynamics of an arbitrary quantum system coupled to a large arbitrary and fully quantum mechanical environment through a random interaction. We establish analytically and check numerically the typicality of this dynamics, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges

We recently obtained a quantum-Boltzmann-conserving classical dynamics by making a single change to the derivation of the `Classical Wigner' approximation. Here, we show that the further approximation of this `Matsubara dynamics' gives rise…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Timothy J. H. Hele , Michael J. Willatt , Andrea Muolo , Stuart C. Althorpe

Quantum many-body systems are characterized by patterns of correlations that define highly-non trivial manifolds when interpreted as data structures. Physical properties of phases and phase transitions are typically retrieved via simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Tiago Mendes-Santos , Adriano Angelone , Alex Rodriguez , Rosario Fazio , Marcello Dalmonte

Ultracold atomic systems have been of great research interest in the past, with more recent attention being paid to systems of mixed species. In this work we carry out non-perturbative Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of N…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-19 William G. Dawkins , Alexandros Gezerlis

We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Junsoo Park , Zhigang Wu , John W. Lawson

We present an accelerated ``on-the-fly'' coupled-cluster path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method for finite-temperature simulations in which electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects are treated simultaneously. The approach is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Thomas Spura , Hossam Elgabarty , Thomas D. Kühne

Most recently, the path integral molecular dynamics has been successfully used to consider the thermodynamics of single-component identical bosons and fermions. In this work, the path integral molecular dynamics is developed to simulate the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Yu Yongle , Liu Shujuan , Xiong Hongwei , Xiong Yunuo

In single-particle tracking experiments measuring anomalous diffusion dynamics, understanding ergodicity is crucial, as it ensures that the time average of an observable matches the ensemble average, and can thus be fitted with known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Wei Wang , Qing Wei , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

Comparing probability distributions is a core challenge across the natural, social, and computational sciences. Existing methods, such as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), struggle in high-dimensional and non-compact domains. Here we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Logan S. McCarty

We develop a path-integral dynamics method for water that resembles centroid molecular dynamics (CMD), except that the centroids are averages of curvilinear, rather than cartesian, bead coordinates. The curvilinear coordinates are used…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 George Trenins , Michael J. Willatt , Stuart C. Althorpe

On the basis of information theory, a new formalism of classical non-relativistic mechanics of a mass point is proposed. The particle trajectories of a general dynamical system defined on an (1+n)-dimensional smooth manifold are treated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Yoshimasa Kurihara , Khiem Hong Phan , Nhi My Uyen Quach

Recently, fictitious identical particles have provided a promising way to overcome the fermion sign problem and have been used in path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) to accurately simulate warm dense matter with up to 1000 electrons (T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

Silicon carbide, a semiconducting material, has gained importance in the fields of ceramics, electronics, and renewable energy due to its remarkable hardness and resistance. In this study, we delve into the impact of nuclear quantum motion,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-24 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez , Gabriela Herrero-Saboya

The quantum thermodynamical properties of (quasi-normal) overdamped electromagnetic modes (eddy currents) are investigated in the context of the magnetic Casimir-Polder interaction. The role of the material response in terms of spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Daniel Reiche , Kurt Busch , Francesco Intravaia

We impose the periodicity conditions corresponding to the Matsubara formalism for Thermal Field Theory as constraints in the imaginary time path integral. These constraints are introduced by means of time-independent auxiliary fields which,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Ccapa Ttira , C. D. Fosco , A. P. C. Malbouisson , I. Roditi

An exact real time quantum dynamics preaveraged over imaginary time path integral is formulated for general condensed phase equilibrium ensemble. This formulation results in the well-known centroid dynamics approach upon filtering of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Seogjoo Jang

Recent experiments have confirmed the importance of nuclear quantum effects even in large biomolecules at physiological temperature. Here we describe how the path integral formalism can be used to describe rigorously the nuclear quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

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 heat statistics of a quantum Brownian motion described by the Caldeira-Leggett model. By using the path integral approach, we introduce a novel concept of the quantum heat functional along every pair of Feynman paths. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan