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The quantum Zakharov system is described in terms of a Lagrangian formalism. A time-dependent Gaussian trial function approach for the envelope electric field and the low-frequency part of the density fluctuation leads to a coupled,…

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Quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors in a wide variety of fields ranging from chemistry to physics and materials science. We report…

The problem of the harmonic oscillator with a centrally located delta function potential can be exactly solved in one dimension where the eigenfunctions are expressed as superpositions of the Hermite polynomials or as confluent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Indrajit Ghose , Parongama Sen

We develop a variational framework for addressing two-dimensional non-integrable quantum field theories through the exact structure of their integrable counterparts. Concentrating on the $\varphi^4$ Landau-Ginzburg model, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Arthur Hutsalyuk , Márton Lájer , Giuseppe Mussardo , Andrea Stampiggi

We present explicit expressions for the central piece of a variational method developed by Shi et al. which extends variational wave functions that are efficiently computable on classical computers beyond mean-field to generalized Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Michael P. Kaicher , Simon B. Jäger , Frank K. Wilhelm

Variational algorithms for strongly correlated chemical and materials systems are one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. We present an extension to the variational quantum eigensolver that approximates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 William J. Huggins , Joonho Lee , Unpil Baek , Bryan O'Gorman , K. Birgitta Whaley

We introduce a family of criteria to detect quantum non-Gaussian states of a harmonic oscillator, that is, quantum states that can not be expressed as a convex mixture of Gaussian states. In particular we prove that, for convex mixtures of…

Two possibile applications of the optimized expansion for the free energy of the quantum-mechanical anharmonic oscillator are discussed. The first method is for the finite temperature effective potential; the second one, for the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Kostas Vlachos , Anna Okopinska

A recently proposed variational quantum algorithm has expanded the horizon of variational quantum computing to nonlinear physics and fluid dynamics. In this work, we probe the ability of such approaches to capture the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Sofia Evangelou , Dimitris G. Angelakis

We introduce a new analysis method to deal with stationary non-Gaussian noises in gravitational wave detectors in terms of the independent component analysis. First, we consider the simplest case where the detector outputs are linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama , Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh

The problem of quantum harmonic oscillator with "regular+random" square frequency, subjected to "regular+random external force, is considered in framework of representation of the wave function by complex-valued random process. Average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Gevorkyan , A. A. Udalov

We employ quantum variational methods to investigate a single-site interacting fermion-boson system -- an example of a minimal supersymmetric model that can exhibit spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. Our study addresses the challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 John Kerfoot , Emanuele Mendicelli , David Schaich

In quantum computation with continous-variable systems, quantum advantage can only be achieved if some non-Gaussian resource is available. Yet, non-Gaussian unitary evolutions and measurements suited for computation are challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Francesco Arzani , Nicolas Treps , Giulia Ferrini

A variational technique is established to deal with the Schrodinger equation with parity-time(PT) symmetric Gaussian complex potential. The method is extended to the linear and self-focusing and defocusing nonlinear cases. Some unusual…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-09 Sumei Hu , Guo Liang , Shanyong Cai , Daquan Lu , Qi Guo , Wei Hu

Quantum coherence between energy eigenstates of harmonic oscillators is essential for quantum physics. Even the most elementary binary superpositions of the ground and the higher eigenstate are highly required for quantum sensing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 A. Kovalenko , L. Lachman , T. Pham , K. Singh , O. Číp , L. Slodička , R. Filip

A very simple procedure to calculate eigenenergies of quantum anharmonic oscillators is presented. The method, exact but for numerical computations, consists merely in requiring the vanishing of the Wronskian of two solutions which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco J. Gomez , Javier Sesma

The literature on the exponential Fourier approach to the one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator problem is revised and criticized. It is shown that the solution of this problem has been built on faulty premises. The problem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Pedro H. F. Nogueira , Antonio S. de Castro

Quantum state tomography is a key process in most quantum experiments. In this work, we employ quantum machine learning for state tomography. Given an unknown quantum state, it can be learned by maximizing the fidelity between the output of…

This paper proposes a variational principle for the solutions of quantum field theories in which the ``trial functions'' are chosen from the algebra of asymptotic fields, and illustrates this variational principle in simple cases.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 O. W. Greenberg

We design a variational quantum algorithm to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions that are typically required in various fields of computational science. Employing an objective function that is formulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Minjin Choi , Hoon Ryu