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  • Open Access
6 Citations
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18 Pages

Cutting-Edge Trajectory Optimization through Quantum Annealing

  • Andrea Carbone,
  • Federico De Grossi and
  • Dario Spiller

30 November 2023

This paper introduces an innovative approach to explore the capabilities of Quantum Annealing (QA) for trajectory optimization in dynamic systems. The proposed method involves transforming trajectory optimization problems into equivalent binary optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,040 Views
22 Pages

11 June 2023

Trajectory planning is a crucial step in controlling robot motion. The efficiency and accuracy of trajectory planning directly impact the real-time control and accuracy of robot motion. The robot’s trajectory is mapped to the joint space, and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,079 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2023

This paper proposes a novel Sea Drift Trajectory Prediction method based on the Quantum Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (QCNN-LSTM) model. Accurately predicting sea drift trajectories is a challenging task, as they are influenced by various comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,136 Views
22 Pages

4 January 2023

In the process of trajectory tracking using the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) for driverless wheeled tractors, a weighting matrix optimization method based on an improved quantum genetic algorithm (IQGA) is proposed to solve the problem of weight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,437 Views
24 Pages

20 February 2025

The goal of this research is to formulate and compare two algorithms, classical particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and quantum PSO (QPSO), for optimising the motion of a car-like mobile robot. Both algorithms are evaluated on the basis of their reduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,963 Views
28 Pages

14 April 2024

The theoretical connections between quantum trajectories and quantum dwell times, previously explored in the context of 1D time-independent stationary scattering applications, are here generalized for multidimensional time-dependent wavepacket applic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,545 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2018

We construct a class of variational methods for the study of open quantum systems based on Gaussian ansatzes for the quantum trajectory formalism. Gaussianity in the conjugate position and momentum quadratures is distinguished from Gaussianity in den...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,944 Views
13 Pages

Measured Composite Collision Models: Quantum Trajectory Purities and Channel Divisibility

  • Konstantin Beyer,
  • Kimmo Luoma,
  • Tim Lenz and
  • Walter T. Strunz

17 May 2022

We investigate a composite quantum collision model with measurements on the memory part, which effectively probe the system. The framework allows us to adjust the measurement strength, thereby tuning the dynamical map of the system. For a two-qubit s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,586 Views
23 Pages

Tunneling Quantum Dynamics in Ammonia

  • Ciann-Dong Yang and
  • Shiang-Yi Han

Ammonia is a well-known example of a two-state system and must be described in quantum-mechanical terms. In this article, we will explain the tunneling phenomenon that occurs in ammonia molecules from the perspective of trajectory-based quantum dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,218 Views
20 Pages

8 February 2021

Probability is an important question in the ontological interpretation of quantum mechanics. It has been discussed in some trajectory interpretations such as Bohmian mechanics and stochastic mechanics. New questions arise when the probability domain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,221 Views
22 Pages

29 April 2018

Probability interpretation is the cornerstone of standard quantum mechanics. To ensure the validity of the probability interpretation, wavefunctions have to satisfy the square-integrable (SI) condition, which gives rise to the well-known phenomenon o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,920 Views
18 Pages

Quantum Trajectories: Real or Surreal?

  • Basil J. Hiley and
  • Peter Van Reeth

8 May 2018

The claim of Kocsis et al. to have experimentally determined “photon trajectories” calls for a re-examination of the meaning of “quantum trajectories”. We will review the arguments that have been assumed to have established that a trajectory has no m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,979 Views
26 Pages

18 July 2024

On 17 October 1947, Niels Bohr was made a knight of the Order of the Elephant by the King of Denmark in view of his outstanding achievements and contributions to science. Bohr designed his own coat of arms that featured a pattern of Yin and Yang (Tai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,099 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2018

In Bohmian mechanics, particles follow continuous trajectories, so two-time position correlations have been well defined. However, Bohmian mechanics predicts the violation of Bell inequalities. Motivated by this fact, we investigate position measurem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,161 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2024

The meaning of the quantum minimum effective length that should distinguish the quantum nature of a gravitational field is investigated in the context of manifestly covariant quantum gravity theory (CQG-theory). In such a framework, the possible occu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,794 Views
25 Pages

22 December 2022

Accurate control of excavator trajectory is the foundation for the intelligent and unmanned development of excavators. The excavator operation process requires multiple actuators to cooperate to complete the response action. However, the existing con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,042 Views
8 Pages

30 November 2022

Oscillations in the probability density of quantum transitions of the eigenstates of a chaotic Hamiltonian within classically narrow energy ranges have been shown to depend on closed compound orbits. These are formed by a pair of orbit segments, one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,191 Views
13 Pages

Design and Nonadiabatic Photoisomerization Dynamics Study of a Three-Stroke Light-Driven Molecular Rotary Motor

  • Jianzheng Ma,
  • Sujie Yang,
  • Di Zhao,
  • Chenwei Jiang,
  • Zhenggang Lan and
  • Fuli Li

Working cycle of conventional light-driven molecular rotary motors (LDMRMs), especially Feringa-type motors, usually have four steps, two photoisomerization steps, and two thermal helix inversion (THI) steps. THI steps hinder the ability of the motor...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,075 Views
8 Pages

Does Carrier Envelope Phase Affect the Ionization Site in a Neutral Diatomic Molecule?

  • Alex Schimmoller,
  • Harrison Pasquinilli and
  • Alexandra S. Landsman

4 April 2023

A recent work shows how to extract the ionization site of a neutral diatomic molecule by comparing Quantum Trajectory Monte Carlo (QTMC) simulations with experimental measurements of the final electron momenta distribution. This method was applied to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,712 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2024

In this paper, we investigate a Lyapunov trajectory tracking design method that incorporates a Schrödinger equation with a dipole subterm and polarizability. Our findings suggest that the proposed control law can overcome the limitations of cert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,673 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2022

The working mechanism of conventional light-driven molecular rotary motors, especially Feringa-type motors, contains two photoisomerization steps and two thermal helix inversion steps. Due to the existence of a thermal helix inversion step, both the...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,488 Views
5 Pages

Continuous Measurements for Advanced Quantum Metrology

  • Francesco Albarelli,
  • Matteo A. C. Rossi,
  • Dario Tamascelli and
  • Marco G. Genoni

We review some recent results regarding the use of time-continuous measurements for quantum-enhanced metrology. First, we present the underlying quantum estimation framework and elucidate the correct figures of merit to employ. We then report results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,772 Views
17 Pages

3 June 2024

The proposed general theory of scientific variability for technological evolution explains one of the drivers of technological change for economic progress in human society. Variability is the predisposition of the elements in systems to assume diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,200 Views
27 Pages

Vibrational Energy Transfer in CO+N2 Collisions: A Database for V–V and V–T/R Quantum-Classical Rate Coefficients

  • Qizhen Hong,
  • Massimiliano Bartolomei,
  • Cecilia Coletti,
  • Andrea Lombardi,
  • Quanhua Sun and
  • Fernando Pirani

25 November 2021

Knowledge of energy exchange rate constants in inelastic collisions is critically required for accurate characterization and simulation of several processes in gaseous environments, including planetary atmospheres, plasma, combustion, etc. Determinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,951 Views
16 Pages

One of the fundamental problems in the field of technological studies is to clarify the drivers and dynamics of technological evolution for sustaining industrial and economic change. This study confronts the problem by analyzing the converging techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,149 Views
28 Pages

9 June 2018

Bohmian mechanics, widely known within the field of the quantum foundations, has been a quite useful resource for computational and interpretive purposes in a wide variety of practical problems. Here, it is used to establish a comparative analysis at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,514 Views
12 Pages

Clocks and Trajectories in Quantum Cosmology

  • Przemysław Małkiewicz,
  • Patrick Peter and
  • Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti

26 January 2022

We consider a simple cosmological model consisting of an empty Bianchi I Universe, whose Hamiltonian we deparametrise to provide a natural clock variable. The model thus effectively describes an isotropic universe with an induced clock given by the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,916 Views
17 Pages

Fast Adiabatic Control of an Optomechanical Cavity

  • Nicolás F. Del Grosso,
  • Fernando C. Lombardo,
  • Francisco D. Mazzitelli and
  • Paula I. Villar

22 December 2022

The development of quantum technologies present important challenges such as the need for fast and precise protocols for implementing quantum operations. Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STAs) are a powerful tool for achieving these goals, as they enable u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,504 Views
36 Pages

19 March 2018

A trajectory-based representation for the quantum theory of the gravitational field is formulated. This is achieved in terms of a covariant Generalized Lagrangian-Path (GLP) approach which relies on a suitable statistical representation of Bohmian La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,275 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2024

We theoretically studied the quantum dynamics of a cavity–Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) system in a gravitational field, which is composed of a Fabry–Pérot cavity and a BEC. We also show how to deterministically generate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,600 Views
25 Pages

In this work, we present a new theoretical approach to interpreting and reproducing quantum mechanics using trajectory-guided wavelets. Inspired by the 1925 work of Louis de Broglie, we demonstrate that pulses composed of a difference between a delay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,020 Views
14 Pages

Mechanical properties of metallic-nanowire self-oscillations are investigated through a coherent-state analysis. We focus on elucidating the time behavior of quantum energy in such oscillations, in addition to the analysis of fluctuations, evolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,199 Views
31 Pages

26 February 2025

We describe a quantum teleportation protocol for exchanging data between a mobile robot and its control station. Because of the high cost of quantum network systems, we use MATLAB software to simulate the teleportation of data. Our simulation models...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,032 Views
24 Pages

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Based on Trajectories

  • Felipe Franco De Carvalho,
  • Marine E. F. Bouduban,
  • Basile F. E. Curchod and
  • Ivano Tavernelli

27 December 2013

Performing molecular dynamics in electronically excited states requires the inclusion of nonadiabatic effects to properly describe phenomena beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. This article provides a survey of selected nonadiabatic methods ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,551 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2024

In the present paper, we study both classical and quantum Hénon–Heiles systems. In particular, we make a comparison between the classical and quantum trajectories of integrable and nonintegrable Hénon–Heiles Hamiltonians. Fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,381 Views
25 Pages

25 November 2019

A prominent tool to study the dynamics of open quantum systems is the reduced density matrix. Yet, approaching open quantum systems by means of state vectors has well known computational advantages. In this respect, the physical meaning of the so-cal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,367 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2024

This paper is a study of a generalization of the quantum Riemannian Hamiltonian evolution, previously analyzed by us, in the geometrization of quantum mechanical evolution in a Finsler geometry. We find results with dynamical equations governing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
939 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2025

In special relativity, particle trajectories, whether mass-bearing or not, can be traced on the Minkowski spacetime manifold in (3+1)D. Meantime, in quantum mechanics, trajectories in the phase space are not strictly outlined because coordinate and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,365 Views
30 Pages

Exact Factorization Adventures: A Promising Approach for Non-Bound States

  • Evaristo Villaseco Arribas,
  • Federica Agostini and
  • Neepa T. Maitra

22 June 2022

Modeling the dynamics of non-bound states in molecules requires an accurate description of how electronic motion affects nuclear motion and vice-versa. The exact factorization (XF) approach offers a unique perspective, in that it provides potentials...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,277 Views
16 Pages

Quantum Probabilities for the Causal Ordering of Events

  • Charis Anastopoulos and
  • Maria-Electra Plakitsi

16 October 2023

We develop a new formalism for constructing probabilities associated with the causal ordering of events in quantum theory, where an event is defined as the emergence of a measurement record on a detector. We start with constructing probabilities for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,116 Views
28 Pages

There is a formal analogy between the evolution of the universe, when it is seen as a trajectory in the minisuperspace, and the worldline followed by a test particle in a curved spacetime. The analogy can be extended to the quantum realm, where the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,189 Views
11 Pages

Feynman Paths and Weak Values

  • Robert Flack and
  • Basil J. Hiley

14 May 2018

There has been a recent revival of interest in the notion of a ‘trajectory’ of a quantum particle. In this paper, we detail the relationship between Dirac’s ideas, Feynman paths and the Bohm approach. The key to the relationship is the weak value of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,228 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2012

Several quantum dynamical entropies have been proposed that extend the classical Kolmogorov–Sinai (dynamical) entropy. The same scenario appears in relation to the extension of algorithmic complexity theory to the quantum realm. A theorem of Brudno e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,335 Views
9 Pages

A Novel Bulk-Optics Scheme for Quantum Walk with High Phase Stability

  • Andrea Geraldi,
  • Luís Diego Bonavena,
  • Carlo Liorni,
  • Paolo Mataloni and
  • Álvaro Cuevas

A novel bulk optics scheme for quantum walks is presented. It consists of a one-dimensional lattice built on two concatenated displaced Sagnac interferometers that make it possible to reproduce all the possible trajectories of an optical quantum walk...

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