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We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

Revealing possible long-living coherence in ultrafast processes allows detecting genuine quantum mechanical effects in molecules. To investigate such effects from a quantum chemistry perspective, we have developed a method for simulating…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Emanuele Coccia , Filippo Troiani , Stefano Corni

This study presents a numerical simulation of a quantum electron confined in a 10 nm potential well, using the Crank-Nicolson numerical technique to solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. The results capture the evolution of the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Adib Kabir

The Wigner function is a useful tool for exploring the transition between quantum and classical dynamics, as well as the behavior of quantum chaotic systems. Evolving the Wigner function for open systems has proved challenging however; a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Renan Cabrera , Denys I. Bondar , Kurt Jacobs , Herschel A. Rabitz

A method of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is presented, in which a finite region of space is treated explicitly, with the boundary conditions for matching the wave-functions on to the rest of the system replaced by an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Inglesfield

A nonperturbative procedure of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, called the multi-projection approach or phase dynamics of quantum mechanics, is derived and illustrated. In addition to introducing a method with that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

Simulating quantum dynamics is one of the most important applications of quantum computers. Traditional approaches for quantum simulation involve preparing the full evolved state of the system and then measuring some physical quantity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Robbie King , Robin Kothari , Thomas O'Brien , Ryan Babbush

It is well-known that time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation can only be exactly solvable in very rare cases, even for two-level quantum systems. Therefore, finding exact quantum dynamics under time-dependent Hamiltonian is not only of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Zhi-Cheng He , Yi-Xuan Wu , Zheng-Yuan Xue

The Wigner-Liouville equation is reformulated using a spectral decomposition of the classical force field instead of the potential energy. The latter is shown to simplify the Wigner-Liouville kernel both conceptually and numerically as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Maarten L. Van de Put , Bart Sorée , Wim Magnus

Travelling and rotating waves are ubiquitous phenomena observed in time dependent PDEs modelling the combined effect of dissipation and non-linear interaction. From an abstract viewpoint they appear as relative equilibria of an equivariant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Denny Otten

It is well-known that quantum mechanics admits two distinct evolutions: the unitary evolution, which is deterministic and well described by the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and the collapse of the wave function, which is probablistic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

In this paper we study quantum simulation algorithms on the elastic wave equations using the Schr\"odingerisation method. The Schr\"odingerisation method transforms any linear PDEs into a system of Schr\"odinger-type PDEs -with unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Shi Jin , Chundan Zhang

The purpose of this work is to test the application of the finite element method to quantum mechanical problems, in particular for solving the Schroedinger equation. We begin with an overview of quantum mechanics, and standard numerical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-29 Avtar S. Sehra

We review some recent developments in numerical algorithms to solve the time-dependent Maxwell equations for systems with spatially varying permittivity and permeability. We show that the Suzuki product-formula approach can be used to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. De Raedt , J. S. Kole , K. F. L. Michielsen , M. T. Figge

We discuss the time evolution of the wave function which is solution of a stochastic Schroedinger equation describing the dynamics of a free quantum particle subject to spontaneous localizations in space. We prove global existence and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Angelo Bassi , Detlef Duerr , Martin Kolb

The controls enacting logical operations on quantum systems are described by time-dependent Hamiltonians that often include rapid oscillations. In order to accurately capture the resulting time dynamics in numerical simulations, a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Ross Shillito , Jonathan A. Gross , Agustin Di Paolo , Élie Genois , Alexandre Blais

We present an approach to simulate the Schr\"odinger equation through continuous time quantum walks. The CTQW-based simulation applies unitary evolution driven by a quantum walk to generate probability amplitude distributions at various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Rachana Soni , Navneet Pratap Singh

A new numerical treatment in the Crank-Nicholson method with the imaginary time evolution operator is presented in order to solve the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The original time evolution technique is extended to a new operator that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daekyoung Kang , E. Won

We show how the highly accurate and efficient Constant Perturbation (CP) technique for steady-state Schr\"odinger problems can be used in the solution of time-dependent Schr\"odinger problems with explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Veerle Ledoux , Marnix Van Daele