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Numerical evaluation of coherent-state path integrals with applications to time-dependent problems

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the application of the coherent-state path integral as a numerical tool for wave-packet propagation. The numerical evaluation of path integrals is reduced to a matrix-vector multiplication scheme. Together with a split-operator technique we apply our method to a time-dependent double-well potential.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9901076,
  title  = {Numerical evaluation of coherent-state path integrals with applications to time-dependent problems},
  author = {Bernd Burghardt and Joachim Stolze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9901076},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on "Path Integrals from peV to TeV", Florence, August, 1998