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We present a general concept to accelerate non-relativistic charged particles. Our concept employs an adiabatically-tapered dielectric-lined waveguide which supports accelerating phase velocities for synchronous acceleration. We propose an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Francois Lemery , Klaus Floettmann , Philippe Piot , Franz X. Kaertner , Ralph Assmann

We derive a version of the adiabatic theorem that is especially suited for applications in adiabatic quantum computation, where it is reasonable to assume that the adiabatic interpolation between the initial and final Hamiltonians is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 D. A. Lidar , A. T. Rezakhani , A. Hamma

Nonadiabatic ring-polymer molecular dynamics employs the mapping approach to describe nonadiabatic effects within the ring-polymer ansatz. In this paper, it is generalized to allow for the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jeremy O. Richardson , Philipp Meyer , Marc-Oliver Pleinert , Michael Thoss

We propose a novel method to describe realistically ionization processes with absorbing boundary conditions in basis expansion within the formalism of the so-called Non-Adiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics. This theory couples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mathias Uhlmann , Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

Counterdiabatic (CD) driving has the potential to speed up adiabatic quantum state preparation by suppressing unwanted excitations. However, existing approaches either require intractable classical computations or are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Jernej Rudi Finžgar , Simone Notarnicola , Madelyn Cain , Mikhail D. Lukin , Dries Sels

In part I, we presented the ring-polymer instanton with explicit friction (RPI-EF) method and showed how it can be connected to the \textit{ab initio} electronic friction formalism. This framework allows the calculation of tunneling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Y. Litman , E. S. Pós , C. L. Box , R. Martinazzo , R. J. Maurer , M. Rossi

The approach of shortcuts to adiabaticity enables the effective execution of adiabatic dynamics in quantum information processing with enhanced speed. Owing to the inherent trade-off between dynamical speed and the cost associated with the…

We give a systematic review of the adiabatic theorem and the leading non-adiabatic corrections in periodically-driven (Floquet) systems. These corrections have a two-fold origin: (i) conventional ones originating from the gradually changing…

We present a novel nonadiabatic perturbation theory (NAPT) for correlated systems of electrons and nuclei beyond the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation. The essence of the method is to exploit the smallness of the electronic-to-nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , E. K. U. Gross

The Wolynes theory of electronically nonadiabatic reaction rates [P. G. Wolynes, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 6559 (1987)] is based on a saddle point approximation to the time integral of a reactive flux autocorrelation function in the nonadiabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Joseph E. Lawrence , David E. Manolopoulos

On-the-fly quantum nonadiabatic dynamics for large systems greatly benefits from the adiabatic representation readily available from the electronic structure programs. However, frequently occurring in this representation conical…

Quantum annealing is a promising algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. It searches for the ground state of the Ising model, which corresponds to the optimal solution of a given combinatorial optimization problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tomohiro Hattori , Shu Tanaka

We consider performing adiabatic rapid passage (ARP) using frequency-swept driving pulses to excite a collection of interacting two-level systems. Such a model arises in a wide range of many-body quantum systems, such as cavity QED or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 R. T. Brierley , C. Creatore , P. B. Littlewood , P. R. Eastham

A shortcut-to-adiabaticity is compared with a numerically optimized protocol for implementing a high-fidelity quantum gate on Rydberg atoms. The counterdiabatic method offers an analytical framework for accelerating high-fidelity gates by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Luis S. Yagüe Bosch , Sandro Wimberger

Focusing on the $2\mathrm{p}-1\mathrm{s}$ transition in atomic Hydrogen, we investigate through first order perturbation theory the time evolution of the survival probability of an electron initially taken to be in the excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 V. Debierre , T. Durt , A. Nicolet , F. Zolla

The system undergoes adiabatic evolution when its population in the instantaneous eigenbasis of its time-dependent Hamiltonian changes only negligibly. Realization of such dynamics requires slow-enough changes of the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bogdan Damski

We describe a path-integral molecular dynamics implementation of our recently developed golden-rule quantum transition-state theory (GR-QTST). The method is applied to compute the reaction rate in various models of electron transfer and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wei Fang , Manish J. Thapa , Jeremy O. Richardson

Topological charge pumping occurs in the adiabatic limit, and the non-adiabatic effect due to finite ramping velocity reduces the pumping efficiency and leads to deviation from quantized charge pumping. In this work, we discuss the relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Fan Yang , Xingyu Li , Hui Zhai

We review the euclidean path-integral formalism in connection with the one-dimensional non-relativistic particle. The configurations which allow to construct a semiclassical approximation classify themselves into either topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Casahorran

We introduce a counter-diabatic approach for deriving Hamiltonians modeling superchargable quantum batteries (QBs). A necessary requirement for the supercharging process is the existence of multipartite interactions among the cells of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 L. F. C. de Moraes , Alan C. Duriez , A. Saguia , Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy