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Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

A variational formulation for the calculation of interacting fermion systems based on the density-matrix functional theory is presented. Our formalism provides for a natural integration of explicit many-particle effects into standard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter E. Bloechl , Christian F. J. Walther , Thomas Pruschke

Starting from the quantum Liouville equation for the density operator and applying the Weyl quantization, Wigner equations for the longitudinal and transversal optical and acoustic phonons are deduced. The equations are valid for any solid,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Vito Dario Camiola , Giorgia Vitanza , Vittorio Romano

This paper develops the so-called Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) variational approach for the analysis of gradient flows in metric spaces. This focuses on the minimization of the parameter-dependent global-in-time functional of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Riccarda Rossi , Giuseppe Savaré , Antonio Segatti , Ulisse Stefanelli

Classical density functional theory (DFT) of fluids is a valuable tool to analyze inhomogeneous fluids. However, few numerical solution algorithms for three-dimensional systems exist. Here we present an efficient numerical scheme for fluids…

In [Dai et al, Multi. Model. Simul., 2020], a structure-preserving gradient flow method was proposed for the ground state calculation in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, based on which a linearized method was developed in [Hu, et al,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Yedan Shen , Ting Wang , Jie Zhou , Guanghui Hu

We present an experimental scanning-based tomography approach for near-term quantum devices. The underlying method has previously been introduced in an ensemble-based NMR setting. Here we provide a tutorial-style explanation along with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Amit Devra , Niklas J. Glaser , Dennis Huber , Steffen J. Glaser

Using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, we derive a four-component Wigner equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically, electrons) including the Zeeman effect and the spin-orbit coupling. This Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jerome Hurst , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

We derive an analytical expression of a Wigner function that approximately describes the time evolution of the one-dimensional motion of a particle in a nonharmonic potential. Our method involves two exact frame transformations, accounting…

We propose a method for microscopic calculations of nuclear ground-state properties in the framework of density functional theory. We discuss how the density functional is equivalent to the effective action for the density, thereby…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schwenk , J. Polonyi

The energy gradient theory was proposed in our previous studies. The mechanism of flow instability is very different in shear driven flows from pressure driven flows. In present paper, the relationship for the energy variation, work done,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-22 Hua-Shu Dou

We introduce the Wigner functional representing a quantum field in terms of the field amplitudes and their conjugate momenta. The equation of motion for the functional of a scalar field point out the relevance of solutions of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Mrowczynski , B. Mueller

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022)] a novel ground state method was proposed. It has been suggested that this $i$-DMFT would be a method within one-particle reduced density matrix functional theory (DMFT), capable of describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Lexin Ding , Julia Liebert , Christian Schilling

Numerical solution of Euler-Euler model using different in-house, open source and commercial software can generate significantly different results, even when the governing equations and the initial and boundary conditions are exactly same.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-03 Yige Liu , Mingming He , Jianhua Chen , Wen Li , Bidan Zhao , Ji Xu , Junwu Wang

We propose a phase-space Wigner harmonics entropy measure for many-body quantum dynamical complexity. This measure, which reduces to the well known measure of complexity in classical systems and which is valid for both pure and mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiangbin Gong

Phase-space features of the Wigner flow for generic one-dimensional systems with a Hamiltonian, $H^{W}(q,\,p)$, constrained by the $\partial ^2 H^{W} / \partial q \partial p = 0$ condition are analytically obtained in terms of Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

We employ the Wigner function formalism to simulate partially coherent, dissipative electron transport in biased semiconductor superlattices. We introduce a model collision integral with terms that describe energy dissipation, momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 O. Jonasson , I. Knezevic

Over decades, the time evolution of Wigner functions along classical Hamiltonian flows has been used for approximating key signatures of molecular quantum systems. Such approximations are for example the Wigner phase space method, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Wolfgang Gaim , Caroline Lasser

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is a fundamental model, which is drawing increasing interest because of recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies of 2D materials. Current understanding of the ground state of the 2DEG…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Conor Smith , Yixiao Chen , Ryan Levy , Yubo Yang , Miguel A. Morales , Shiwei Zhang