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Efficiently simulating many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions is a fundamental question in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing, yet it presents unique challenges: the Hamiltonian is an unbounded operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Di Fang , Xiaoxu Wu

We explore the structure around shell-crossing time of cold dark matter protohaloes seeded by two or three crossed sine waves of various relative initial amplitudes, by comparing Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT) up to 10th order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Stéphane Colombi

We present a new fast and efficient approach to model structure formation with Augmented Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ALPT). Our method is based on splitting the displacement field into a long and a short-range component. The long-range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Heß

We study Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) and its regularization in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. We evaluate the LPT displacement with the same phases as a corresponding $N$-body simulation, which allows us to compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tobias Baldauf , Emmanuel Schaan , Matias Zaldarriaga

The Lagrangian perturbation theory provides a simple yet powerful way of computing the nonlinear matter power spectrum, and it has been applied to biased tracers such as halos and galaxies. The number conservation of matter particles allows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Peter Espenshade , Jaiyul Yoo

We present results showing an improvement of the accuracy of perturbation theory as applied to cosmological structure formation for a useful range of quasilinear scales. The Lagrangian theory of gravitational instability of an Einstein-de…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Buchert , A. L. Melott , A. G. Weiss

This paper deals with the time evolution in the matter era of perturbations in Friedman-Lemaitre models with arbitrary density parameter $\Omega$, with either a zero cosmological constant, $\Lambda = 0$, or with a non-zero cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. R. Bouchet , S. Colombi , E. Hivon , R. Juszkiewicz

We investigate the curvature perturbations induced by the randomness of the quantum tunneling process during cosmological first-order phase transitions (PTs) and for the first time ultilize curvature perturbations to constrain the PT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jing Liu , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang

We introduce a novel approach, the Cosmological Trajectories Method (CTM), to model nonlinear structure formation in the Universe by expanding gravitationally-induced particle trajectories around the Zel'dovich approximation. A new Beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-04 F. C. Lane , A. N. Taylor , D. Sorini

We perform a suite of cosmological simulations in the LCDM paradigm of the formation of the first structures in the Universe prior to astrophysical reheating and reionization (15<~z<200). These are the first simulations initialized in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew McQuinn

We present and test a new method for the reconstruction of cosmological initial conditions from a full-sky galaxy catalogue. This method, called ZTRACE, is based on a self-consistent solution of the growing mode of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Monaco , G. Efstathiou

We examine how coupled dark matter and dark energy modify the development of Zel'dovich pancakes. We study how the various effects of these theories, such as a fifth force in the dark sector and a modified particle Hubble drag, produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-14 P. M. Sutter , P. M. Ricker

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present a generic algorithm for generating Gaussian random initial conditions for cosmological simulations on periodic rectangular lattices. We show that imposing periodic boundary conditions on the real-space correlator and choosing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ue-Li Pen

Understanding hydrodynamization in microscopic models of heavy-ion collisions has been an important topic in current research. Many lessons obtained within the strongly-coupled (holographic) models originate from the properties of transient…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-24 Michal P. Heller , Viktor Svensson

We present an improved prediction of the nonlinear perturbation theory (PT) via the Lagrangian picture, which was originally proposed by Matsubara (2008). Based on the relations between the power spectrum in standard PT and that in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tomohiro Okamura , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiko Matsubara

We present and test a new numerical method to determine second-order Lagrangian displacement fields in the context of modified gravity (MG) theories. We start from the extension of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to a class of MG models that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Chiara Moretti , Simone Mozzon , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Munari , Marco Baldi

The statistical uncertainty in measuring the primordial density perturbations on a given comoving scale is dictated by the number of independent regions of that scale that are accessible to an observer. This number varies with cosmic time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Abraham Loeb

Numerical relativity simulations provide a means by which to study the evolution and end point of strong over-densities in cosmological spacetimes. Specific applications include studies of primordial black hole formation and the robustness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Katy Clough , John T. Giblin

We use numerical relativity simulations to describe the spacetime evolution during nonlinear structure formation in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Fully nonlinear initial conditions are set at an initial redshift $z\approx 300$, based directly on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Robyn L. Munoz , Marco Bruni