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We recast the action principle of four dimensional General Relativity so that it becomes amenable for perturbation theory which doesn't break general covariance. The coupling constant becomes dimensionless (G_{Newton} \Lambda) and extremely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Freidel , Artem Starodubtsev

This article develops a variational formulation of relativistic nature applicable to the quantum mechanics context. The main results are obtained through basic concepts on Riemannian geometry. Standards definitions such as vector fields and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Fabio Botelho

Variational algorithms are promising candidates to be implemented on near-term quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a prominent example, where a parametrized trial state of the quantum mechanical wave function is…

We develop an action formulation of stochastic dynamics in the Hilbert space. By generalizing the Wiener process into 1+3-dimensional spacetime, we define a Lorentz-invariant random field. By coupling the random to quantum fields, we obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Pei Wang

Applications of variational methods are typically restricted to conservative systems. Some extensions to dissipative systems have been reported too but require ad hoc techniques such as the artificial doubling of the dynamical variables.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 I. Y. Dodin , A. I. Zhmoginov , D. E. Ruiz

We define and study certain integrable lattice models with non-compact quantum group symmetry (the modular double of U_q(sl_2)) including an integrable lattice regularization of the sinh-Gordon model and a non-compact version of the XXZ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Bytsko , J. Teschner

The usual renormalization procedure for the variational approximation with a trial Gaussian ansatz for the $\lap$ model in 3+1 dimensions is re-analysed as a departing framework for the investigation of the parameters of the model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-03 Fabio L. Braghin

We provide a comprehensive picture for the formulation of the perfect fluid in the modern effective field theory formalism at both the classical and quantum level. Due to the necessity of decomposing the hydrodynamical variables $(\rho, p,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Gabriel Cuomo , Fanny Eustachon , Eren Firat , Brian Henning , Riccardo Rattazzi

In the present article we display a new constructive quantum field theory approach to quantum gauge field theory, utilizing the recent progress in the integration theory on the moduli space of generalized connections modulo gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Thomas Thiemann

Here we propose the Variational Discrete Action Theory (VDAT) to study the ground state properties of quantum many-body Hamiltonians. VDAT is a variational theory based on the sequential product density matrix (SPD) ansatz, characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Zhengqian Cheng , Chris A. Marianetti

The main principles of two-dimensional quantum field theories, in particular two-dimensional QCD and gravity are reviewed. We study non-perturbative aspects of these theories which make them particularly valuable for testing ideas of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Abdalla

I describe a simple algorithm for numerically finding the ground state and low-lying excited states of a quantum system. The algorithm is an adaptation of the relaxation method for solving Poisson's equation, and is fundamentally based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Daniel V. Schroeder

We introduce a method to simulate open quantum many-body dynamics by combining time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) with quantum trajectory techniques. Our approach unravels the Lindblad master equation into an ensemble of…

The time dependent quantum variational principle is emerging as an important means of studying quantum dynamics, particularly in early universe scenarios. To date all investigations have worked within a Gaussian framework. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Gareth J. Cheetham , E. J. Copeland

A new procedure of trial variational wave functional is proposed for investigating the mass renormailzation and the local structure of the ground state of a one-dimensional quantum sine-Gordon model with linear spatial modulation, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Zhiguo Wang , Yumei Zhang

We present a numerical method to simulate the dynamics of continuous-variable quantum many-body systems. Our approach is based on custom neural-network many-body quantum states. We focus on dynamics of two-dimensional quantum rotors and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Matija Medvidović , Dries Sels

We introduce a variational manifold of simple tensor network states for the study of a family of constrained models that describe spin-1/2 systems as realized by Rydberg atom arrays. Our manifold permits analytical calculation via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Giuliano Giudici , Hannes Pichler

We propose a single-layer tensor network framework for the variational determination of ground states in two-dimensional quantum lattice models. By combining the nested tensor network method [Phys. Rev. B 96, 045128 (2017)] with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Hongyu Chen , Yangfeng Fu , Weiqiang Yu , Rong Yu , Z. Y. Xie

We propose the simulation of quantum-optical systems in the ultrastrong-coupling regime using a variational quantum algorithm. More precisely, we introduce a short-depth variational form to prepare the groundstate of the multimode Dicke…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Agustin Di Paolo , Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos , Ivano Tavernelli , Alexandre Blais

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are critically threatened by the Barren Plateau (BP) phenomenon. In this work, we introduce the H-EFT Variational Ansatz (H-EFT-VA), an architecture inspired by Effective Field Theory (EFT). By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Eyad I. B Hamid