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In this paper, the ground state Wigner function of a many-body system is explored theoretically and numerically. First, an eigenvalue problem for Wigner function is derived based on the energy operator of the system. The validity of finding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Hongfei Zhan , Zhenning Cai , Guanghui Hu

Non-classical states are of practical interest in quantum computing and quantum metrology. These states can be detected through their Wigner function negativity in some regions. In this paper, we calculate the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ramón López-Peña , Sergio Cordero , Eduardo Nahmad-Achar , Octavio Castaños

This work focuses on the numerical computation of defocusing action ground states for rotating nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (RNLS) using a direct gradient flow (DGF) method. We address theoretical gaps in the existing literature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Wei Liu , Tingfeng Wang , Yongjun Yuan , Xiaofei Zhao

Density matrices and Discrete Wigner Functions are equally valid representations of multiqubit quantum states. For density matrices, the partial trace operation is used to obtain the quantum state of subsystems, but an analogous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 K. Srinivasan , G. Raghavan

The deformation quantization formalism is applied to the linearized gravitational field. Standard aspects of this formalism are worked out before the ground state Wigner functional is obtained. Finally, the propagator for the graviton is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Hugo Garcia-Compean , Francisco J. Turrubiates

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

We present GW many-body results for ground-state properties of two simple but very distinct families of inhomogenous systems in which traditional implementations of density-functional theory (DFT) fail drastically. The GW approach gives…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Garcia-Gonzalez , R. W. Godby

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

A new iterative solver is proposed to efficiently calculate the ground state electronic structure in Density Functional Theory calculations. This algorithm is particularly useful for simulating physical systems considered difficult to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-Luc Fattebert

We introduce and implement a method to compute stationary states of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations on metric graphs. Stationary states are obtained as local minimizers of the nonlinear Schr\''odinger energy at fixed mass. Our method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Christophe Besse , Romain Duboscq , Stefan Le Coz

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

We describe how density-functional theory, well-known for its many uses in ab initio calculations of electronic structure, can be used to study the ground state of inhomogeneous model Hamiltonians. The basic ideas and concepts are discussed…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Valter L. Libero , Klaus Capelle

The Wigner function of quantum systems is an effective instrument to construct the approximate classical description of the systems for which the classical approximation is possible. During the last time, the Wigner function formalism is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Constantin V. Usenko

Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Noora Tuomisto , Riikka Vaananen , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen

In this paper, we generalize the normalized gradient flow method which was first applied to computing the least energy ground state to compute the least action ground state. A continuous normalized gradient flow (CNGF) will be presented and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chushan Wang

The Wigner function is a useful tool for exploring the transition between quantum and classical dynamics, as well as the behavior of quantum chaotic systems. Evolving the Wigner function for open systems has proved challenging however; a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Renan Cabrera , Denys I. Bondar , Kurt Jacobs , Herschel A. Rabitz

Predicting molecular ground-state conformation (i.e., energy-minimized conformation) is crucial for many chemical applications such as molecular docking and property prediction. Classic energy-based simulation is time-consuming when solving…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-23 Fanmeng Wang , Minjie Cheng , Hongteng Xu

The Wigner function for one and two-mode quantum systems is explicitely expressed in terms of the marginal distribution for the generic linearly transformed quadratures. Then, also the density operator of those systems is written in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. M. D'Ariano , S. Mancini , V. I. Man'ko , P. Tombesi

We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Yijie Jin , Shu Liu , Hao Wu , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

We present a Wigner function-based approach for the particle density evolution in fermionic and bosonic open quantum many-body systems, including the effects of dephasing. In particular, we focus on chains of non-interacting particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-31 Michele Coppola , Gabriel T. Landi , Dragi Karevski
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