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In this article, we develop and analyse a new spectral method to solve the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation based on the Gaussian wave-packet transform (GWPT) and Hagedorn's semi-classical wave-packets (HWP). The GWPT equivalently…
In this work, we study the semi-classical limit of the Schr\"odinger equation with random inputs, and show that the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation produces $O(\varepsilon)$ oscillations in the random variable space. With the Gaussian…
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…
We consider semiclassically scaled, weakly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with external confining potentials and additional angular-momentum rotation term. This type of model arises in the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of trapped, rotating…
The numerical treatment of quantum mechanics in the semi-classical regime is known to be computationally demanding, due to the highly oscillatory behaviour of the wave function and its large spatial extension. A recently proposed…
In this paper, we integrate neural networks and Gaussian wave packets to numerically solve the Schr\"odinger equation with a smooth potential near the semi-classical limit. Our focus is not only on accurately obtaining solutions when the…
Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…
The numerical simulation of wave propagation in semiclassical (high-frequency) problems is well known to pose a formidable challenge. In this work, a new phase-space approach for the numerical simulation of semiclassical wave propagation,…
In this paper we numerically solve the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for scenarios using wave packets. These examples include the free wave packet, which we use to show the difference between group and phase velocities, the packet…
This paper concerns an approximation of the expectation values of the position and momentum of the solution to the semiclassical Schr\"odinger equation with a Gaussian as the initial condition. Of particular interest is the approximation…
We consider semiclassically scaled Schrodinger equations with an external potential and a highly oscillatory periodic potential. We construct asymptotic solutions in the form of semiclassical wave packets. These solutions are concentrated…
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…
The paper gives a symplectic-geometric account of semiclassical Gaussian wave packet dynamics. We employ geometric techniques to "strip away" the symplectic structure behind the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and incorporate it into…
We present some physically interesting, in general non-stationary, one-dimensional solutions to the nonlinear phase modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation proposed recently. The solutions include a coherent state, a phase-modified…
We extend our previous work on symplectic semiclassical Gaussian wave packet dynamics to incorporate electromagnetic interactions by including a vector potential. The main advantage of our formulation is that the equations of motion derived…
We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schroedinger's equation in one spatial dimension with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function $V$ and a smooth function…
We derive an exact analytical solution to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for transmission of a Gaussian wave packet through an arbitrary potential of finite range. We consider the situation where the initial Gaussian wave packet…
In the present paper we consider the semiclassical magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, which describes the dynamics of particles under the influence of a magnetic field. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is approximated…
A simple and explicit technique for the numerical solution of the two-particle, time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is assembled and tested. The technique can handle interparticle potentials that are arbitrary functions of the…
This paper is concerned with the efficient numerical computation of solutions to the 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equation in the semiclassical limit in the highly oscillatory regime. A previous approach to this problem based on explicitly…