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This paper generalizes some known solitary solutions of a time-dependent Hamiltonian in two ways: The time-dependent field can be an elliptic function, and the time evolution is obtained for a complete set of basis vectors. The latter makes…

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We develop perturbative methods to study and control dynamical phenomena related to exceptional points in Non-Hermitian systems. In particular, we show how to find perturbative solutions based on the Magnus expansion that accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Hugo Ribeiro , Florian Marquardt

Optimal realizations of quantum technology tasks lead to the necessity of a detailed analytical study of the behavior of a $d$-level quantum system (qudit) under a time-dependent Hamiltonian. In the present article, we introduce a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Elena R. Loubenets , Christian Käding

We use a Magnus approximation at the level of the equations of motion for a harmonic system with a time-dependent frequency, to find an expansion for its in-out effective action, and a unitary expansion for the Bogoliubov transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

The Floquet-Magnus expansion is a widely used tool to derive effective descriptions of time-periodic quantum systems by approximating their dynamics with a time-independent Hamiltonian. However, its standard formulation is, strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Daniel Burgarth , Robin Hillier , Davide Lonigro , Leonhard Richter

A general method is introduced for verifying multitime quantum correlations through the characteristic function of the time-dependent P functional that generalizes the Glauber-Sudarshan P function. Quantum correlation criteria are derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 F. Krumm , J. Sperling , W. Vogel

This second part deals with applications of a general method to describe the quantum time evolution determined by a Schroedinger equation with time-dependent Hamiltonian. A new aspect of our approach is that we find all solutions starting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-30 Maciej Kuna , Jan Naudts

The long-term evolution of astrophysical systems is driven by a Hamiltonian that is independent of the fast angle. As this Hamiltonian may contain explicitly time-dependent parameters, the conservation of mechanical energy is not guaranteed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Barnabás Deme

We discuss the classical and quantum mechanical evolution of systems described by a Hamiltonian that is a function of a solvable one, both classically and quantum mechanically. The case in which the solvable Hamiltonian corresponds to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Iñaki Garay , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

The time-convolutionless quantum master equation is an exact description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems, with the advantage of being local in time. We derive a perturbative expansion to arbitrary order in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Konstantin Nestmann , Carsten Timm

The computation of the Schr\"odinger equation featuring time-dependent potentials is of great importance in quantum control of atomic and molecular processes. These applications often involve highly oscillatory potentials and require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Arieh Iserles , Karolina Kropielnicka , Pranav Singh

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

Quantum systems governed by time-dependent Hamiltonians pose significant challenges for the accurate computation of unitary time-evolution operators, which are essential for predicting quantum state dynamics. In this work, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Antonio Guerra , Daniel Uzcategui-Contreras , Aldo Delgado , Esteban S. Gómez

We show that by a suitable choice of a time dependent Hamiltonian, Deutsch's algorithm can be implemented by an adiabatic quantum computer. We extend our analysis to the Deutsch-Jozsa problem and estimate the required running time for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Saurya Das , Randy Kobes , Gabor Kunstatter

We give a quantum algorithm for solving instances of the satisfiability problem, based on adiabatic evolution. The evolution of the quantum state is governed by a time-dependent Hamiltonian that interpolates between an initial Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Michael Sipser

In this paper, we discuss time evolution and adiabatic approximation in $PT$-symmetric quantum mechanics. we give the time evolving equation for a class of $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians and some conditions of the adiabatic approximation for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Zhihua Guo , Huaixin Cao

We investigate quantum mechanical Hamiltonians with explicit time dependence. We find a class of models in which an analogue of the time independent \S equation exists. Among the models in this class is a new exactly soluble model, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 John Rogers , Donald Spector

In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution by reducing the problem to simulating a time-independent Hamiltonian in a larger space using a discrete clock Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang

The adiabatic quantum algorithm has drawn intense interest as a potential approach to accelerating optimization tasks using quantum computation. The algorithm is most naturally realised in systems which support Hamiltonian evolution, rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Liming Zhao , Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Simon C. Benjamin , Joseph F. Fitzsimons