Algorithms and Software for Open Quantum System Dynamics

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024
This special issue will highlight recent progress in accurate and efficient simulations of realistic open quantum systems, and progress towards simulating many-body or high-dimensional open quantum systems. A common feature of these methods is that they are highly technical and therefore difficult to implement from scratch, so we would very much encourage papers describing (reliable and welldocumented) software packages that implement them, for publication in the new “Chemical Physics Software” section of JCP. Papers on state-of-the-art applications to interesting (chemical) physics problems are also welcome.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

  • Numerical methods and algorithms for modelling equilibrium and nonequilibrium nonMarkovian open quantum systems in the presence of non-perturbative and/or anharmonic effects
  • Benchmarking, error analysis, and bounds on performance of different methods, also including demonstrations of computational acceleration of algorithms/methods via efficient deployment on GPUs, emerging hardware (such as TPUs) or interfaces with enabling computational techniques (e.g. AI, ML)
  • “Landmark” results in simulating large or particularly challenging examples, including cases where environmental information provides new insight into complex dissipative phenomena
  • Hybrid combinations of methods for the prediction and understanding of multiscale, multistage quantum processes in complex settings, such as correlated materials or biology

Guest Editors

Jonathan Keeling, University of St. Andrews

Alex Chin, Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence

Haobin Wang, University of Colorado, Denver

Dvira Segal, University of Toronto

JCP Editors

David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford

David Reichman, Columbia University

Qiang Shi, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

More information:

Please note that papers will be published as normal when they are ready in a regular issue of the journal and will populate on a virtual collection page within a few days of publication. Inclusion in the collection will not cause delay in publication.

How to Submit:

  • Please submit through the online submission system.
  • Under manuscript type → select Article or Communication, as appropriate
  • Under manuscript information → Manuscript classification → select Special Topic: “Algorithms and Software for Open Quantum System Dynamics”
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024