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This paper proposes a variational framework for multi-objective level set topology optimization. The approach interprets the level set function as a generalized coordinate of a fictitious material and derives its equation of motion from…

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We use so-called geometrical approach in description of transition from regular motion to chaotic in Hamiltonian systems with potential energy surface that has several local minima. Distinctive feature of such systems is coexistence of…

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The variational principle and the corresponding differential equation for geodesic circles in two dimensional (pseudo)-Riemannian space are being discovered. The relationship with the physical notion of uniformly accelerated relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Roman Ya. Matsyuk

Molecular dynamics is based on solving Newton's equations for many-particle systems that evolve along complex, highly fluctuating trajectories. The orbital instability and short-time complexity of Newtonian orbits is in sharp contrast to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Yuriy V. Sereda , Andrew Abi Mansour , Peter J. Ortoleva

We present a new formulation for the mean-field propagation part of the relativistic quantum molecular dynamics, simulating an $N$-body system of interacting Gaussian wave packets via Lorentz scalar and vector potentials. Covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Yasushi Nara , Asanosuke Jinno , Koichi Murase

Finding optimal reaction coordinates and predicting accurate kinetic rates for activated processes are two of the foremost challenges of molecular simulations. We introduce an algorithm that tackles the two problems at once: starting from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-30 Line Mouaffac , Karen Palacio-Rodriguez , Fabio Pietrucci

We discuss nuclear dynamics at molecule-metal interfaces including non-equilibrium molecular junctions. Starting from the many-body states (pseudoparticle) formulation of the molecule-metal system in the molecular vibronic basis, we…

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We consider the radiation reaction to the motion of a point-like particle of mass $m$ and specific spin $S$ traveling on a curved background. Assuming $S=O(Gm)$ and $Gm\ll L$ where $L$ is the length scale of the background curvature, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We describe a method for obtaining the scattering matrix for nuclear or chemical reactions on a finite lattice. Aside from the preparation of the initial and final states as wave packets, the only other operation required is unitary time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Evan Rule , Ionel Stetcu

Traditionally, gravity is generally considered to exert an extremely weak effect in chemistry because the Newtonian gravitation is typically negligible compared to the dominant Coulomb potentials in a molecular system. In this work, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Xingyu Zhang , Jinke Yu , Qingyong Meng

We present the variational action principle for initial value problems in classical, conservative-force point particle mechanics. We rigorously derive this formulation by taking the classical limit of the Schwinger-Keldysh expression for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 W. A. Horowitz , A. Rothkopf

In this paper we propose an ab initio method to solve quantum many-body problems of molecular dynamics where both the electronic and the nuclear degrees are represented by ensembles of trajectories and guiding waves in physical space. Both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan P. Christov

A new variational method, the principle of least radix economy, is formulated. The mathematical and physical relevance of the radix economy, also called digit capacity, is established, showing how physical laws can be derived from this…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a pedagogical introduction to the notion of thermodynamic length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Paolo Abiuso , Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Matteo Scandi

A simple procedure is presented to study the conservation of energy equation with dissipation in continuum mechanics in 1D. This procedure is used to transform this nonlinear evolution-diffusion equation into a hyperbolic PDE; specifically,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Hamid A Said

We present a novel multiscale simulation approach for modeling stochasticity in chemical reaction networks. The approach seamlessly integrates exact-stochastic and "leaping" methodologies into a single "partitioned leaping" algorithmic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonard A. Harris , Paulette Clancy

Stochastic mechanics is regarded as a physical theory to explain quantum mechanics with classical terms such that some of the quantum mechanics paradoxes can be avoided. Here we propose a new variational principle to uncover more insights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Jianhao M. Yang

A first principles quantum formalism to describe the non-adiabatic dynamics of electrons and nuclei based on a second quantization representation (SQR) of the electronic motion combined with the usual representation of the nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Sudip Sasmal , Oriol Vendrell

Quantum geometrical molecular dynamics provides a quantum geometric picture for understanding reactive dynamics, especially excited-state conical intersection dynamics, and also a numerically exact method for strongly correlated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Mo Sha , Bing Gu

An approach to correlated dynamics of quantum nuclei and electrons both in dynamical interaction with external environments is presented. This stochastic quantum molecular dynamics rests on a theorem that establishes a one-to-one…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-27 Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra