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We derive a Magnus expansion for a frequency chirped quantum two-level system. We obtain a time-independent effective Hamiltonian which generates a stroboscopic time evolution. At lowest order the according dynamics is identical to results…
We consider d-dimensional time dependent Schr\"odinger equations on the Hilbert space of square integrable functions. We assume magnetic and scalar potentials are almost critically singular with respect to spatial variables both locally and…
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…
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…
It is shown that general solutions of the free-particle Schroedinger equation can be mapped onto solutions of the Schroedinger equation for the harmonic oscillator. This is done in such a way that the time evolution of a free particle…
Both the classical time-ordering and the Magnus expansion are well-known in the context of linear initial value problems. Motivated by the noncommutativity between time-ordering and time derivation, and related problems raised recently in…
We present a method for describing the time evolution of many-body controlled quantum systems using matrix product operators (MPOs). Existing techniques for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) with an MPO Hamiltonian…
We rewrite the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation by using only three dimensional vector algebra and by avoiding to introduce any complex numbers. We show that this equation leads to the same conclusions than the "complex version"…
We introduce exponential numerical integration methods for stiff stochastic dynamical systems of the form $d\mathbf{z}_t = L(t)\mathbf{z}_tdt + \mathbf{f}(t)dt + Q(t)d\mathbf{W}_t$. We consider the setting of time-varying operators $L(t),…
We present a generalization of the often-used Crank-Nicolson (CN) method of obtaining numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The generalization yields numerical solutions accurate to order $(\Delta x)^{2r-1}$ in…
We examine various integration schemes for the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations. Contrary to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger's equation, this set of equations is non-linear, due to the dependence of the Hamiltonian on the electronic…
We develop an approach to solving numerically the time-dependent Schrodinger equation when it includes source terms and time-dependent potentials. The approach is based on the generalized Crank-Nicolson method supplemented with an…
We develop a Magnus formalism for periodically driven systems which provides an expansion both in the driving term and the inverse driving frequency, applicable to isolated and dissipative systems. We derive explicit formulas for a driving…
Using the simplest but fundamental example, the problem of the infinite potential well, this paper makes an ideological attempt (supported by rigorous mathematical proofs) to approach the issue of…
We generalize the Lewis-Riesenfeld technique of solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation to cases where the invariant has continuous eigenvalues. An explicit formula for a generalized Lewis-Riesenfeld phase is derived in terms of the…
The Schr\"odingerisation method combined with the autonomozation technique in \cite{cjL23} converts general non-autonomous linear differential equations with non-unitary dynamics into systems of autonomous Schr\"odinger-type equations, via…
We discuss the extension of the Lewis and Riesenfeld method of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to cases where the invariant has continuous eigenvalues and apply it to the case of a generalized time-dependent inverted…
We consider the numerical integration of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a potential trap given by a time-dependent harmonic potential or a small perturbation thereof. Splitting methods are frequently used with Fourier techniques since…
The Cauchy problem for the Schr\"odinger equations is studied with time-dependent potentials growing polynomially in the spatial direction. First the existence and the uniqueness of solutions are shown in the weighted Sobolev spaces. In…
The semiclassically scaled time-dependent multi-particle Schr\"odinger equation describes, inter alia, quantum dynamics of nuclei in a molecule. It poses the combined computational challenges of high oscillations and high dimensions. This…