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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-28 Paolo Antonelli , Agisillaos Athanassoulis , Hichem Hajaiej , Peter Markowich

Wave functions and electron potentials of laterally-confined surface states are determined experimentally by means of photoemission from stepped Au(111) surfaces. Using an iterative formalism borrowed from x-ray diffraction, we retrieve the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-13 A. Mugarza , J. E. Ortega , F. J. Himpsel , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

This paper studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from metamaterials that are described by dispersive material laws. We consider the numerical treatment of a scattering problem in which a dispersive material law, for a causal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Jörg Nick , Selina Burkhard , Christian Lubich

A fast and stable numerical method is formulated to compute the time evolution of a wave function in a magnetic field by solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. This computational method is based on the finite element method in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Naoki Watanabe , Masaru Tsukada

Analytical solutions to the time-dependent Shr\"{o}dinger equation in one dimension are developed for time-independent potentials, one consisting of an infinite wall and a repulsive delta function. An exact solution is obtained by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Athanasios N. Petridis , Lawrence P. Staunton , Jon Vermedahl , Marshall Luban

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

The time-dependent surface flux (t-SURFF) method is introduced for computing of strong-field infrared photo-ionization spectra of atoms by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation on minimal simulation volumes. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Liang Tao , Armin Scrinzi

One-dimensional model for study of sub--femtosecond experiment with metal surface is put forward. The important features of the system, such as the pseudopotential for electron motion in the metal bulk, abrupt decrease of the normal to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-20 A. K. Kazansky , P. M. Echenique

Transport and scattering phenomena in open quantum-systems with a continuous energy spectrum are conveniently solved using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. In the time-dependent picture, the evolution of an initially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Tobias Kramer

We relax the usual diagonal constraint on the matrix representation of the eigenvalue wave equation by allowing it to be tridiagonal. This results in a larger solution space that incorporates an exact analytic solution for the non-central…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Alhaidari

A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 V. A. Gradusov , S. L. Yakovlev

Using a generalized transfer matrix method we exactly solve the Schr\"odinger equation in a time periodic potential, with discretized Euclidean space-time. The ground state wave function propagates in space and time with an oscillating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefano Galluccio , Yi-Cheng Zhang

We consider the scattering problem on locally perturbed periodic penetrable dielectric layers, which is formulated in terms of the full vector-valued time-harmonic Maxwell's equations. The right-hand side is not assumed to be periodic. At…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Alexander Konschin

The real-time electronic dynamics on material surfaces is critically important to a variety of applications. However, their simulations have remained challenging for conventional methods such as the time-dependent density-functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rulin Wang , Dong Hou , Xiao Zheng

In this paper, we study the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation within the formalism of position dependent effective mass. For a generalized decomposition of the non-central effective potential, the deformed Schr\"odinger equation can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 M. Chabab , A. El Batoul , H. Hassanabadi , M. Oulne , S. Zare

This paper presents a combined field and boundary integral equation method for solving the time-dependent scattering problem of a thermoelastic body immersed in a compressible, inviscid and homogeneous fluid. The approach here is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-23 George Hsiao , Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet , Francisco-Javier Sayas , Richard Weinacht

Scattering states with LEED asymptotics are calculated for a general non-muffin tin potential, as e.g. for a pseudopotential with a suitable barrier and image potential part. The latter applies especially to the case of low lying conduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Lorenz , C. Solterbeck , W. Schattke , J. Burmeister , W. Hackbusch

A method is proposed for extracting ionization amplitudes from the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) describing a system in a time-dependent external field. The method is a hybrid of two earlier developed methods,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Vladislav V. Serov , Tatyana A. Sergeeva , Sergue I. Vinitsky

Time-dependent quantum mechanics provides an intuitive picture of particle propagation in external fields. Semiclassical methods link the classical trajectories of particles with their quantum mechanical propagation. Many analytical results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 Tobias Kramer , Eric J. Heller , Robert E. Parrott

We present a stochastic method for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, generalizing a ground-state full configuration interaction Quantum Monte Carlo method. By performing the time-integration in the complex plane close to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Kai Guther , Werner Dobrautz , Olle Gunnarsson , Ali Alavi