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Damped mechanical systems with various forms of damping are quantized using the path integral formalism. In particular, we obtain the path integral kernel for the linearly damped harmonic oscillator and a particle in a uniform gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Dharmesh Jain , A. Das , Sayan Kar

We propose a new way to perform path integrals in quantum mechanics by using a quantum version of Hamilton-Jacobi theory. In classical mechanics, Hamilton-Jacobi theory is a powerful formalism, however, its utility is not explored in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Mustafa Türe , Mithat Ünsal

Partitioning transportation networks into balanced and spatially coherent traffic zones is a fundamental yet computationally challenging task in intelligent transportation systems. The resulting optimization problem exhibits dense…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ruimin Ke , Talha Azfar , Kaicong Huang , Shuyang Li

An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field. A novel truncation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rui-Xue Xu , Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Yan Mo , YiJing Yan

Imaginary-time path integral (PI) is a rigorous tool to treat nuclear quantum effects in static properties. However, with its high computational demand, it is crucial to devise precise estimators. We introduce generalized PI estimators for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-22 Sabry G. Moustafa , Andrew J. Schultz

A quantum dissipation theory is formulated in terms of hierarchically coupled equations of motion for an arbitrary electronic system coupled with grand canonical Fermion bath ensembles. The theoretical construction starts with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 Jinshuang Jin , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, i.e., the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over all the possible trajectories that would take the system from the initial to its final state of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Charles W. Robson , Yaraslau Tamashevich , Tapio T. Rantala , Marco Ornigotti

The formalism of the generalized quantum master equation (GQME) is an effective tool to simultaneously increase the accuracy and the efficiency of quasiclassical trajectory methods in the simulation of nonadiabatic quantum dynamics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Graziano Amati , Maximilian A. C. Saller , Aaron Kelly , Jeremy O. Richardson

We develop a general theory of the relation between quantum phase transitions (QPTs) characterized by nonanalyticities in the energy and bipartite entanglement. We derive a functional relation between the matrix elements of two-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lian-Ao Wu , Marcelo S. Sarandy , Daniel A. Lidar

We study the quantum dissipative dynamics of a particle coupled linearly to a set of two-level systems (the heat bath) via the master equation method which we extract from the path integral formalism independently from the form of the bath…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Paulo C. Marques , Antonio H. Castro Neto

We present an extensive introduction to quantum collision models (CMs), also known as repeated interactions schemes: a class of microscopic system-bath models for investigating open quantum systems dynamics whose use is currently spreading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Francesco Ciccarello , Salvatore Lorenzo , Vittorio Giovannetti , G. Massimo Palma

Quantum entanglement, lacking any classical counterpart, provides a fundamental new route to characterize the quantum nature of many-body states. In this work, we discuss an implementation of a new path integral method [Phys. Rev. Res. 2,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-06 Surajit Bera , Arijit Haldar , Sumilan Banerjee

A novel parallel hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the solution of the quantum-chemical ground-state energy problem on gate-based quantum computers is presented. This approach is based on the reduced density-matrix functional theory…

This paper extends the previously reported theory of dissipation pathways [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 214111 (2024)] to incorporate off-diagonal subsystem-bath coupling, which is often required to model molecular systems where the environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ignacio Gustin , Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

We present a general and practical theoretical framework to investigate how energy is dissipated in open quantum system dynamics. This is done by quantifying the contributions of individual bath components to the overall dissipation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

We study the Caldeira-Leggett model where a quantum Brownian particle interacts with an environment or a bath consisting of a collection of harmonic oscillators in the path integral formalism. Compared to the contours that the paths take in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-11 Joonhyun Yeo

The dynamics of a qubit in a structured environment is investigated theoretically. One point of view of the model is the spin-boson model with a Lorentz shaped spectral density. An alternative view is a qubit coupled to harmonic oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Peihao Huang , Hang Zheng , Keiichiro Nasu

Efforts to give an improved mathematical meaning to Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics started soon after its introduction and continue to this day. In the present paper, one common thread of development is followed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 John R. Klauder

In this contribution we review the theory of integrability of quantum systems in one spatial dimension. We introduce the basic concepts such as the Yang-Baxter equation, commuting currents, and the algebraic Bethe ansatz. Quite extensively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Klümper

The evolution of a composite closed system using the integral wave equation with the kernel in the form of path integral is considered. It is supposed that a quantum particle is a subsystem of this system. The evolution of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 A. Yu. Samarin