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We propose new mathematical optimization models for generating sparse dynamical graphs, or networks, that can achieve synchronization. The synchronization phenomenon is studied using the Kuramoto model, defined in terms of the adjacency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Regina S. Burachik , Alexander C. Kalloniatis , C. Yalçın Kaya

A numerical algorithm for studying strongly correlated electron systems is proposed. The groundstate wavefunction is projected out after numerical renormalization procedure in the path integral formalism. The wavefunction is expressed from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Imada , Tsuyoshi Kashima

Although instantaneous interactions are unphysical, a large variety of maximum entropy statistical inference methods match the model-inferred and the empirically-measured equal-time correlation functions. Focusing on collective motion of…

The Kuramoto model is a classical mathematical model in the field of non-linear dynamical systems that describes the evolution of coupled oscillators in a network that may reach a synchronous state. The relationship between the network's…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Pedro Abdalla , Afonso S. Bandeira , Clara Invernizzi

A recently proposed dimensional reduction approach for studying synchronization in the Kuramoto model is employed to build optimal network topologies to favor or to suppress synchronization. The approach is based in the introduction of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-12-02 Rafael S. Pinto , Alberto Saa

I discuss the use of path integrals to study strong-interaction physics from first principles. The underlying theory is cast into path integrals which are evaluated numerically using Monte Carlo methods on a space-time lattice. Examples are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Frank X. Lee

We present a numerical path-integral iteration scheme for the low dimensional reduced density matrix of a time-dependent quantum dissipative system. Our approach simultaneously accounts for the combined action of a microscopically modelled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 A. M. Barth , A. Vagov , V. M. Axt

It is shown that classical control diagrams can be mapped one-to-one onto quantum path integrals over measurement amplitudes. To show the practical utility of this method, exact closed-form expressions are derived for the control dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Sidles

A path-integral approach for the computation of quantum-mechanical propagators and energy Green's functions is presented. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to singular interactions, with particular emphasis on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

Extension of Feynman's path integral to quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates is considered. The corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is formulated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

We show how to construct path integrals for quantum mechanical systems where the space of configurations is a general non-compact symmetric space. Associated with this path integral is a perturbation theory which respects the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Noah Linden , Malcolm Perry

We formulate Lagrangian descriptors (LDs) in the path integral framework. Averaging the classical LD over fluctuations about extremal trajectories defines a quantum LD that incorporates quantum effects. Invariant manifolds, which sharply…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Javier Jiménez-López , V. J. García-Garrido

The path integral formalism gives a very illustrative and intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics but due to its difficult sum over phases one usually prefers Schr\"odinger's approach. We will show that it is possible to calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dullweber , E. R. Hilf , E. Mendel

There are numerous examples of studied real-world systems that can be described as dynamical systems characterized by individual phases and coupled in a network like structure. Within the framework of oscillatory models, much attention has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-29 Gemma Rosell-Tarragó , Albert Díaz-Guilera

In a quantum communication network, links represent entanglement between qubits located at different nodes. Even if two nodes are not directly linked by shared entanglement, communication channels can be established between them via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Xiangyi Meng , Bingjie Hao , Balázs Ráth , István A. Kovács

The distribution of entanglement in quantum networks is typically approached under idealized assumptions such as perfect synchronization and centralized control, while classical communication is often neglected. However, these assumptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Hassan Shapourian , Don Towsley

We reformulate Super Quantum Mechanics in the context of integral forms. This framework allows to interpolate between different actions for the same theory, connected by different choices of Picture Changing Operators (PCO). In this way we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 L. Castellani , R. Catenacci , P. A. Grassi

Existing quantum routing implicitly mimics classical routing principles, with finding the ``best'' path (aka pathfinding), according to a selected routing metric, as a core mechanism for establishing end-to-end entanglement. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Si-Yi Chen , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Marcello Caleffi