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We study classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a probability distribution to the physical time, which is assumed to be discrete. - This is motivated by the ``timeless''…

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Recent experiments have demonstrated single-site resolved observation of cold atoms in optical lattices. Thus, in the future it may be possible to take repeated snapshots of an interacting quantum many-body system during the course of its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-13 Stefan Kessler , Andreas Holzner , Ian P. McCulloch , Jan von Delft , Florian Marquardt

Stochastic processes are shown to emerge from the time evolution of complex quantum systems. Using parametric, banded random matrix ensembles to describe a quantum chaotic environment, we show that the dynamical evolution of a particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitri Kusnezov , Aurel Bulgac , Giu Do Dang

We propose a variational quantum algorithm to study the real time dynamics of quantum systems as a ground-state problem. The method is based on the original proposal of Feynman and Kitaev to encode time into a register of auxiliary qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Stefano Barison , Filippo Vicentini , Ignacio Cirac , Giuseppe Carleo

The efficient numerical simulation of nonequilibrium real-time evolution in isolated quantum matter constitutes a key challenge for current computational methods. This holds in particular in the regime of two spatial dimensions, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-09 Markus Schmitt , Markus Heyl

The physics of a closed quantum mechanical system is governed by its Hamiltonian. However, in most practical situations, this Hamiltonian is not precisely known, and ultimately all there is are data obtained from measurements on the system.…

In this paper a formalism for studying the dynamics of quantum systems coupled to classical spin environments is reviewed. The theory is based on generalized antisymmetric brackets and naturally predicts open-path off-diagonal geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Alessandro Sergi

We study the dynamics of a particle in continuous time and space, the displacement of which is governed by an internal degree of freedom (spin). In one definite limit, the so-called quantum random walk is recovered but, although quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Aslangul

The master equation for a linear open quantum system in a general environment is derived using a stochastic approach. This is an alternative derivation to that of Hu, Paz and Zhang, which was based on the direct computation of path…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Esteban Calzetta , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

Universality of quantum mechanics -- its applicability to physical systems of quite different nature and scales -- indicates that quantum behavior can be a manifestation of general mathematical properties of systems containing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 Vladimir V. Kornyak

We consider physical Hamiltonians that can be represented by the multiparametric Gaussian ensembles, theoretically derive the state ensembles for its eigenstates and analyze the effect of varying system conditions on its bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Devanshu Shekhar , Pragya Shukla

We develop a dynamical framework for quantum measurement based on stochastic but unitary evolution in projective state space. Random Hamiltonians drawn from the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble generate stochastic unitary dynamics of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Alexey A. Kryukov

Stochastic quantum trajectories, such as pure state evolutions under unitary dynamics and random measurements, offer a crucial ensemble description of many-body open system dynamics. Recent studies have highlighted that individual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shivan Mittal , Bin Yan

Interacting spin systems are of fundamental relevance in different areas of physics, as well as in quantum information science, and biology. These spin models represent the simplest, yet not fully understood, manifestation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Johannes Schachenmayer , Alexander Pikovski , Ana Maria Rey

This paper presents a useful compact formula for deriving an effective Hamiltonian describing the time-averaged dynamics of detuned quantum systems. The formalism also works for ensemble-averaged dynamics of stochastic systems. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel F. V. James , Jonathan Jerke

A generalized formalism of the so-called non-adiabatic quantum molecular dynamics is presented, which applies for atomic many-body systems in external laser fields. The theory treats the nuclear dynamics and electronic transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

I propose a version of quantum mechanics featuring a discrete and finite number of states that is plausibly a model of the real world. The model is based on standard unitary quantum theory of a closed system with a finite-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Sean M. Carroll

We study the emergence of collective dynamics in the integrable Hamiltonian system of two finite ensembles of coupled harmonic oscillators. After identification of a collective degree of freedom, the Hamiltonian is mapped onto a model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-17 Jens Hammerling , Boris Gutkin , Thomas Guhr

We establish that the exact quantum dynamics of a Brownian particle in the Caldeira-Leggett model can be mapped, at any temperature, onto a classical, non-Markovian stochastic process in phase space. Starting from a correlated thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dmitriy Kondaurov , Evgeny Polyakov

We consider the dynamics of an arbitrary quantum system coupled to a large arbitrary and fully quantum mechanical environment through a random interaction. We establish analytically and check numerically the typicality of this dynamics, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges