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An idealized multigrid algorithm for the computation of propagators of staggered fermions is investigated. Exemplified in four-dimensional $SU(2)$ gauge fields, it is shown that the idealized algorithm preserves criticality under…

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We present an ab initio approach to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to treat electron and photon impact multiple ionization of atoms or molecules. It combines the already known time scaled coordinate method with a new high…

The $O(N)$ stochastic propagation method, which relies on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using random initial states, is widely used in large-scale first-principles calculations. In this work, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Zhichang Fu , Yunhai Li , Weiqing Zhou , Shengjun Yuan

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate on classical computers. Many quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Annie Ray , Esha Swaroop , Ningping Cao , Michael Vasmer , Anirban Chowdhury

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally scale exponentially with the system size. Conversely, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Sam McArdle , Tyson Jones , Suguru Endo , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

In order to solve the time-independent three-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation, one can transform the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to imaginary time and use a parallelized iterative method to obtain the full three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-16 Rafael L. Delgado , Sebastian Steinbeißer , Michael Strickland , Johannes H. Weber

We present a new class of high-order imaginary time propagators for path-integral Monte Carlo simulations by subtracting lower order propagators. By requiring all terms of the extrapolated propagator be sampled uniformly, the subtraction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert E. Zillich , Johannes M. Mayrhofer , Siu A. Chin

We show that the method of factorizing the evolution operator to fourth order with purely positive coefficients, in conjunction with Suzuki's method of implementing time-ordering of operators, produces a new class of powerful algorithms for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Chin , C. R. Chen

The free-particle propagator, a key operator in various algorithms for simulating the time evolution of the Schr\"odinger equation, is studied. A multiscale approximation of this propagator is constructed, representing the semigroup…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Evgueni Dinvay , Yuliya Zabelina , Luca Frediani

We show that a pseudospectral representation of the wavefunction using multiple spatial domains of variable size yields a highly accurate, yet efficient method to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The overall spatial domain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 R. Esteban Goetz , Andrea Simoni , Christiane P. Koch

Quantum confinement is studied by numerically solving time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. An imaginary-time evolution technique is employed in conjunction with the minimization of an expectation value, to reach the global minimum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Amlan K. Roy

The long-time behaviour of splitting integrators applied to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in a weakly nonlinear setting is studied. It is proven that the energy is nearly conserved on long time intervals. The analysis includes all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Ludwig Gauckler

We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

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We propose an approximate solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using the method of stationary states combined with a variational matrix method for finding the energies and eigenstates. We illustrate the effectiveness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Francisco M. Fernandez , Hugh Jones

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam

We develop a fourth order simulation algorithm for solving the stochastic Langevin equation. The method consists of identifying solvable operators in the Fokker-Planck equation, factorizing the evolution operator for small time steps to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Harald A. Forbert , Siu A. Chin

In this paper, we propose a numerical method to approximate the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with periodic boundary condition in a high-dimensional setting. We discretize space by using the Fourier pseudo-spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Yuya Suzuki , Dirk Nuyens

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool applied in quantum physics, while existing classical algorithms for simulating imaginary time evolution suffer high computational complexity as the quantum systems become larger and more complex.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Hao-Nan Xie , Shi-Jie Wei , Fan Yang , Zheng-An Wang , Chi-Tong Chen , Heng Fan , Gui-Lu Long

We consider the approximation of the ground state of the one-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation by a normalized gradient algorithm combined with linearly implicit time integrator, and finite difference space approximation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Erwan Faou , Tiphaine Jézéquel