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In this work we develop and apply a path integral formulation for the microscopic degrees of freedom obeying stochastic differential equations to an active Brownian particle (ABP) trapped in a harmonic potential. The formalism allows to…

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We establish an efficient approximation algorithm for the partition functions of a class of quantum spin systems at low temperature, which can be viewed as stable quantum perturbations of classical spin systems. Our algorithm is based on…

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By use of the recently derived $universal$ discrete imaginary-time propagator of the harmonic oscillator, both thermodynamic and Hamiltonian energies can be given analytically, and evaluated numerically at each imaginary time step, for…

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We present a novel quantum algorithm for estimating Gibbs partition functions in sublinear time with respect to the logarithm of the size of the state space. This is the first speed-up of this type to be obtained over the seminal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Arjan Cornelissen , Yassine Hamoudi

Estimating quantum partition functions is a critical task in a variety of fields. However, the problem is classically intractable in general due to the exponential scaling of the Hamiltonian dimension $N$ in the number of particles. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Thais de Lima Silva , Lucas Borges , Leandro Aolita

A quantum anharmonic oscillator is defined by the Hamiltonian ${\cal H}= -\frac{ {\rm d^{2}}}{{\rm d}x^{2}} + V(x)$, where the potential is given by $V(x) = \sum_{i=1}^{m} c_{i} x^{2i}$ with $c_{m}>0$. Using the Sinc collocation method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Philippe Gaudreau , Richard Slevinsky , Hassan Safouhi

The path integral formulation can reproduce the right energy spectrum of the harmonic oscillator potential, but it cannot resolve the Coulomb potential problem. This is because the path integral cannot properly take into account the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Mikoto Matsuda , Takehisa Fujita

The first quantum correction to the finite temperature partition function for a self-interacting massless scalar field on a $D-$dimensional flat manifold with $p$ non-commutative extra dimensions is evaluated by means of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Bytsenko , E. Elizalde , S. Zerbini

We provide a unified method for obtaining upper bounds for certain functional integrals appearing in quantum mechanics and non-relativistic quantum field theory, functionals of the form $E\left[\exp(A_T)\right]$, the (effective) action…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Gonzalo A. Bley , Lawrence E. Thomas

This paper is concerned with quantum harmonic oscillators consisting of a quantum plant and a directly coupled coherent quantum observer. We employ discounted quadratic performance criteria in the form of exponentially weighted time…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

We establish efficient algorithms for weakly-interacting quantum spin systems at arbitrary temperature. In particular, we obtain a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for the partition function and an efficient approximate sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Ryan L. Mann , Gabriel Waite

We propose a quantum harmonic oscillator measurement engine fueled by simultaneous quantum measurements of the non-commuting position and momentum quadratures of the quantum oscillator. The engine extracts work by moving the harmonic trap…

Imaginary-time path integral (PI) is a rigorous tool to compute static properties at finite temperatures. However, the stiff PI internal modes poses a sampling challenge. This is commonly tackled using staging coordinates, in which the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-23 Sabry G. Moustafa , Andrew J. Schultz

We consider the thermally activated escape of an overdamped Brownian particle over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving. A time-dependent path-integral formalism is developed which allows us to derive asymptotically exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

We consider countable system of harmonic oscillators on the real line with quadratic interaction potential with finite support and local external force (stationary stochastic process) acting only on one fixed particle. In the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Alexandr Lykov , Margarita Melikian

Boundary effects in quantum mechanics are examined by considering a partition wall inserted at the centre of a harmonic oscillator system. We put an equal number of particles on both sides of the impenetrable wall keeping the system under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Fulop , I. Tsutsui

We have calculated the quantum correction(QC) in the vibrational partition function and thermodynamic state functions, e.g., internal energy, specific heat, free energy and entropy by using improved Manning-Rosen(MR) potential for Li_2,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-16 P. K. Budakoti

The quartic force field of SO$_3$ was computed fully ab initio using coupled cluster (CCSD(T)) methods and basis sets of up to $spdfgh$ quality. The effect of inner-shell correlation was taken into account. The addition of tight $d$…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jan M. L. Martin

Partition functions for non-interacting particles are known to be symmetric functions. It is shown that powerful group-theoretical techniques can be used not only to derive these relationships, but also to significantly simplify calculation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Balantekin

We explore systems with a large number of fermionic degrees of freedom subject to non-local interactions. We study both vector and matrix-like models with quartic interactions. The exact thermal partition function is expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Dionysios Anninos , Guillermo A. Silva