“…Widely applied in physics ( Kac, 1966 ; Goldenfeld and Woese, 2011 ; Kantsler and Goldstein, 2012 ; Bhaduri et al, 2020 ), engineering ( Soong and Grigoriu, 1993 ; Heydari et al, 2021 ), and spectral computing ( Driscoll et al, 2014 ; Burns et al, 2020 ; Fortunato et al, 2021 ), mode representations ( Schmid, 2010 ; Tu et al, 2014 ) provide a powerful tool to decompose and study system dynamics at and across different energetic, spatial and temporal scales. In quantum systems, for example, mode representations in the form of carefully constructed eigenstates are used to characterize essential energetic system properties ( Slater and Koster, 1954 ; Jaynes and Cummings, 1963 ).…”