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This colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. We particularly focus on quantum quenches: the temporal evolution following a sudden or…

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We show that the dynamics of interacting fermions can be exactly replaced by a quantum jump theory in the many-body density matrix space. In this theory, jumps occur between densities formed of pairs of Slater determinants, $D_{ab}=| \Phi_a…

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Quantum dynamics of a particle confined in a box with time-dependent wall is revisited by considering some unexplored aspects of the problem. In particular, the case of dynamical confinement in a time-dependent box in the presence of purely…

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We study the evolution of an open quantum system using a Langevin unravelling of the density matrix evolution over matrix product states. As the strength of coupling to and temperature of the environment is increased, we find a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 F. Azad , A. Hallam , J. Morley , A. G. Green

We introduce a new discrete-time variational principle inspired by the quantum clock originally proposed by Feynman, and use it to write down quantum evolution as a ground state eigenvalue problem. The construction allows one to apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Jarrod R. McClean , John A. Parkhill , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In numerical studies of the dynamics of unbound quantum mechanical systems, absorbing boundary conditions are frequently applied. Although this certainly provides a useful tool in facilitating the description of the system, its applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sølve Selstø , Simen Kvaal

We study the dynamics of multiparticle Carroll-Schr\"odinger (CS) quantum systems in $1{+}1$ dimensions, where $x$ acts as the evolution variable and $t$ as the configuration coordinate. We derive the $N$-body theory on equal-$x$ slices as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 José Rojas , Melvin Arias

In these lecture notes we discuss recent progress in the rigorous derivation of effective evolution equations for the description of the dynamics of quantum mechanical many-body systems.

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We revise fundamental concepts in the dynamics of open quantum systems in the light of modern developments in the field. Our aim is to present a unified approach to the quantum evolution of open systems that incorporates the concepts and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga

We derive stochastic master equations for a quantum system interacting with a Bose field prepared in a superposition of continuous-mode coherent states. To determine a conditional evolution of the quantum system we use a collision model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Anita Dabrowska

This essay advocates the view that any problem that has a meaningful empirical content, can be formulated in constructive, more definitely, finite terms. We consider combinatorial models of dynamical systems and approaches to statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Vladimir V. Kornyak

Process of formation of the universe with its further expansion in the first evolution stage is investigated in the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metrics on the basis of quantum model, where a new type of matter is introduced,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-17 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are among the most promising systems to implement quantum computing under the Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology. In this paper, at first, we investigate a quantum dynamics algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Mahmoud Mahdian , H. Davoodi Yeganeh

We study the evolution of sexual and asexual populations in general fitness landscapes. We find deep relations between the mathematics of biological evolution and the formalism of quantum mechanics. We give the general structure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-20 Ginestra Bianconi , Christoph Rahmede

In this work we present an effective Hamiltonian description of the quantum dynamics of a generalized Lambda system undergoing adiabatic evolution. We assume the system to be initialized in the dark subspace and show that its holonomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 V. O. Shkolnikov , Guido Burkard

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

Multi-component quantum systems in strong interaction with their environment are receiving increasing attention due to their importance in a variety of contexts, ranging from solid state quantum information processing to the quantum…

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The study of the physical properties of open quantum systems is at the heart of many present investigations which aim to describe their dynamical evolution, on theoretical ground and through physical realizations. Here we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tarek Khalil , Jean Richert

We consider quantum nonlinear many-body systems with dissipation described within the Caldeira-Leggett model, i.e., by a nonlocal action in the path integral for the density matrix. Approximate classical-like formulas for thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Cuccoli , A. Fubini , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia

Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed to solve static and dynamic problems of closed many-body quantum systems. Here we investigate variational quantum simulation of three general types of tasks---generalised time evolution with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Suguru Endo , Jinzhao Sun , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan