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In the present work, by taking advantage of a so-called practical limitation of fractional derivatives, namely, the absence of a simple chain and Leibniz's rules, we proposed a generalized fractional calculus of variation where the…
We review an explicit approach to obtaining numerical solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation that is conceptionally straightforward and capable of significant accuracy and efficiency. The method and its efficacy are illustrated with…
An alternative method is proposed for deriving the time dependent Schroedinger equation from the pictures of wave and matrix mechanics. The derivation is of a mixed classical quantum character, since time is treated as a classical variable,…
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…
We build an efficient and unitary (hence stable) method for the solution of the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation subject with explicitly time-dependent potentials. The method is based on a combination of the Zassenhaus decomposition…
The Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton model is a nonlinear system obtained by coupling the linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation of canonical quantum mechanics with the Poisson equation of Newtonian mechanics. In this paper we investigate the effects of…
We study low-rank tensor methods for the numerical solution of Schr\"odinger's equation with time-independent and explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians, motivated by large-scale simulations of many-body quantum systems and quantum…
We propose a variational formulation for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of discrete open systems, i.e., discrete systems which can exchange mass and heat with the exterior. Our approach is based on a general variational formulation for…
We consider a class of models describing a quantum oscillator in interaction with an environment. We show that models of continuous spontaneous localization based on a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation can be derived as an approximation to…
We introduce a classical computational method for quantum dynamics that relies on a global-in-time variational principle. Unlike conventional time-stepping approaches, our scheme computes the entire state trajectory over a finite time…
We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…
In this study, a variety of methods are tested and compared for the numerical solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for few-body systems with explicitely time-dependent Hamiltonians, with the aim to find the optimal one. The configuration…
The properties of pulse propagation in a nonlinear fiber including linear damped term added in the usual nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed analytically. We apply variational modified approach based on the lagrangian that describe…
From the mathematical side, nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations are usually investigated via variational methods, that cease to work in higher dimensions. This thesis tries to overcome this problem by focusing on spherically symmetric…
We present some general results for the time-dependent mass Hamiltonian problem with H=-{1/2}e^{-2\nu}\partial_{xx} +h^{(2)}(t)e^{2\nu}x^2. This Hamiltonian corresponds to a time-dependent mass (TM) Schr\"odinger equation with the…
The goal of this paper is to develop energy-preserving variational integrators for time-dependent mechanical systems with forcing. We first present the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle in the extended Lagrangian mechanics framework and derive…
We rigorously study the long time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in {\it time-dependent} external potentials. To set the stage, we first establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a…
A nonperturbative procedure of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, called the multi-projection approach or phase dynamics of quantum mechanics, is derived and illustrated. In addition to introducing a method with that…
The simplest nonlinear Schrodinger equation that contains the time derivative of the probability density is investigated. This equation has the same stationary solutions as its linear counterpart, and these solutions are the eigenstates of…
Grid-based discretizations of the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation coupled to an external magnetic field are converted to manifest gauge invariant discretizations. This is done using generalizations of ideas used in classical lattice…