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most citedBoltzmann-conserving classical dynamics in quantum time-correlation functions: Matsubara dynamics

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quant-ph2026

Equilibrating continuous-variable open quantum systems using stochastic classical trajectories in path-integral space

William H. D. Moore, Stuart C. Althorpe

Beyond the weak-coupling limit, open quantum systems equilibrate to a highly entangled thermal state. For continuous-variable systems, this state can be written explicitly as an im…

quant-ph2026

Exploiting the path-integral radius of gyration in open quantum dynamics

Andrew C. Hunt, Stuart C. Althorpe

A major challenge in open quantum dynamics is the inclusion of Matsubara-decay terms in the memory kernel, which arise from the quantum-Boltzmann delocalisation of the bath modes.…

quant-ph2026

Effective classical potential for quantum statistical averages

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Stuart C. Althorpe, Venkat Kapil

We present an effective potential that allows quantum thermal expectation values of a position-dependent observable to be estimated as a classical ensemble average of the correspon…

quant-ph2025

On the origin of exponential operator growth in Hilbert space

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Jan M. Rost, Stuart C. Althorpe

The question of thermalization in quantum many-body systems has long been studied through the properties of matrix elements of operators corresponding to local observables. More re…

quant-ph2023

Instantons and the quantum bound to chaos

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Lars Meuser, David R. Reichman +1

We investigate why the Lyapunov exponents of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) satisfy a universal bound by probing imaginary-time path-integral spa…