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This paper is devoted to the construction of approximations of the propagator associated with a semi-classical matrix-valued Schr\"odinger operator with symbol presenting smooth eigenvalues crossings. Inspired by the approach of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Caroline Lasser , Didier Robert

The Herman--Kluk propagator is a popular semi-classical approximation of the unitary evolution operator in quantum molecular dynamics. In this paper we formulate the Herman--Kluk propagator as a phase space integral and discretise it by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Caroline Lasser , David Sattlegger

The semiclassical Double Herman-Kluk Initial Value Representation is an accurate approach to computing quantum real time correlation functions, but its applications are limited by the need to evaluate an oscillatory integral. In previous…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Matthew S. Church , Nandini Ananth

Propagation of the Wigner function is studied on two levels of semiclassical propagation, one based on the van-Vleck propagator, the other on phase-space path integration. Leading quantum corrections to the classical Liouville propagator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Dittrich , Luis Sandoval , Carlos Viviescas

The semiclassical formula for the coherent-state propagator is written in terms of complex classical trajectories of an equivalent classical system. Depending on the parameters involved, more than one trajectory may contribute to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. D. Ribeiro

When the semiclassical Herman-Kluk propagator is used for evaluating quantum-mechanical observables or time-correlation functions, the initial conditions for the guiding trajectories are typically sampled from the Husimi density. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Fabian Kröninger , Caroline Lasser , Jiří Vaníček

Gaussian wavepackets are a popular tool for semiclassical analyses of classically chaotic systems. We demonstrate that they are extremely powerful in the semiquantal analysis of such systems, too, where their dynamics can be recast in an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Arjendu K. Pattanayak , William C. Schieve

The Gaussian Wave-Packet phase-space representation is used to show that the expansion in powers of $\hbar$ of the quantum Liouville propagator leads, in the zeroth order term, to results close to those obtained in the statistical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. W. Bund , S. S. Mizrahi , M. C. Tijero

When computing quantum-mechanical observables, the ``curse of dimensionality'' limits the naive approach that uses the quantum-mechanical wavefunction. The semiclassical Herman--Kluk propagator mitigates this curse by employing a grid-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Fabian Kröninger , Caroline Lasser , Jiri J. L. Vanicek

Gabriel F. Calvo and Antonio Picon defined a class of operators, for use in quantum communication, that allows arbitrary manipulations of the three lowest two-dimensional Hermite-Gaussian modes {|0,0>,|1,0>,|0,1>}. Our paper continues the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael VanValkenburgh

This study explores the semiclassical limit of an integrable-chaotic bosonic many-body quantum system, providing nuanced insights into its behavior. We examine classical-quantum correspondences across different interaction regimes of bosons…

We investigate the accuracy and efficiency of the semiclassical Frozen Gaussian method in describing electron dynamics in real time. Model systems of two soft-Coulomb-interacting electrons are used to study correlated dynamics under…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Peter Elliott , Neepa T. Maitra

We consider the singular semiclassical initial value problem for the phase space Schrodinger equation. We approximate semiclassical quantum evolution in phase space by analyzing initial states as superpositions of Gaussian wave packets and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 P. D. Karageorge , G. N. Makrakis

We introduce an approximate phase-space technique to simulate the quantum dynamics of interacting bosons. With the future goal of treating Bose-Einstein condensate systems, the method is designed for systems with a natural separation into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott E. Hoffmann , Joel F. Corney , Peter D. Drummond

We present a detailed derivation of the semiclassical propagator in the SU(n) coherent state representation. In order to provide support for immediate physical applications, we restrict this work to the fully symmetric irreducible…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Thiago F. Viscondi , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The one-sided bouncer and the symmetric bouncer involve a one-dimensional particle in a piecewise linear potential. For such problems, the time-dependent quantum mechanical propagator cannot be found in closed form. The semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yen Lee Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

For one dimensional non-relativistic quantum mechanical problems, we investigate the conditions for all the position dependence of the propagator to be in its phase, that is, the semi-classical approximation to be exact. For velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ibrahim Semiz , Koray Duztas

We benchmark a selection of semiclassical and perturbative dynamics techniques by investigating the correlated evolution of a cavity-bound atomic system to assess their applicability to study problems involving strong light-matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Norah M. Hoffmann , Christian Schäfer , Niko Säkkinen , Angel Rubio , Heiko Appel , Aaron Kelly

The semiclassical approximation of coherent state path integrals is employed to study the dynamics of the Jaynes-Cummings model. Decomposing the Hilbert space into subspaces of given excitation quanta above the ground state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert

The semiclassical formula for the quantum propagator in the coherent state representation $<\mathbf{z}'' | e^{-i\hat{H}T/\hbar} | \mathbf{z}'>$ is not free from the problem of caustics. These are singular points along the complex classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 A. D. Ribeiro , M. A. M. de Aguiar