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Christian Bonhomme

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Novel frame changes for quantum physics

We present novel, exotic types of frame changes for the calculation of quantum evolution operators. We detail in particular the biframe, in which a physical system's evolution is seen in an equal mixture of two different standard frames at once. We prove that, in the biframe, convergence of all series expansions of the solution is quadratically faster than in `conventional' frames. That is, if in laboratory frame or after a standard frame change the error at order $n$ of some perturbative series expansion of the evolution operator is on the order of $ε^n$, $0<ε<1$, for a computational cost $C(n)$ then it is on the order of $ε^{2n+1}$ in the biframe for the same computational cost. We demonstrate that biframe is one of an infinite family of novel frames, some of which lead to higher accelerations but require more computations to set up initially, leading to a trade-off between acceleration and computational burden.

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A new fast numerical method for the generalized Rosen-Zener model

In quantum mechanics, the Rosen-Zener model represents a two-level quantum system. Its generalization to multiple degenerate sets of states leads to larger non-autonomous linear system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We propose a new method for computing the solution operator of this system of ODEs. This new method is based on a recently introduced expression of the solution in terms of an infinite matrix equation, which can be efficiently approximated by combining truncation, fixed point iterations, and low-rank approximation. This expression is possible thanks to the so-called $\star$-product approach for linear ODEs. In the numerical experiments, the new method's computing time scales linearly with the model's size. We provide a first partial explanation of this linear behavior.

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Exact dynamics of quantum systems driven by time-varying Hamiltonians: solution for the Bloch-Siegert Hamiltonian and applications to NMR

Comprehending the dynamical behaviour of quantum systems driven by time-varying Hamiltonians is particularly difficult. Systems with as little as two energy levels are not yet fully understood as the usual methods including diagonalisation of the Hamiltonian do not work in this setting. In fact, since the inception of Magnus' expansion in 1954, no fundamentally novel mathematical approach capable of solving the quantum equations of motion with a time-varying Hamiltonian has been devised. We report here of an entirely different non-perturbative approach, termed path-sum, which is always guaranteed to converge, yields the exact analytical solution in a finite number of steps for finite systems and is invariant under scale transformations of the quantum state space. Path-sum can be combined with any state-space reduction technique and can exactly reconstruct the dynamics of a many-body quantum system from the separate, isolated, evolutions of any chosen collection of its sub-systems. As examples of application, we solve analytically for the dynamics of all two-level systems as well as of a many-body Hamiltonian with a particular emphasis on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) applications: Bloch-Siegert effect, coherent destruction of tunneling and $N$-spin systems involving the dipolar Hamiltonian and spin diffusion.

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