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We propose a numerical method to solve the Wigner equation in quantum systems of spinless, non-relativistic particles. The method uses a spectral decomposition into $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ basis functions in momentum-space to obtain a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Oliver Furtmaier , Sauro Succi , Miller Mendoza

Numerical solving the Schr\"odinger equation with incommensurate potentials presents a great challenge since its solutions could be space-filling quasiperiodic structures without translational symmetry nor decay. In this paper, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Kai Jiang , Shifeng Li , Juan Zhang

Using Gaussian wave packet solutions, we examine how the kinetic energy is distributed in time-dependent solutions of the Schrodinger equation corresponding to the cases of a free particle, a particle undergoing uniform acceleration, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. Robinett , L. C. Bassett

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

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

We consider the semiclassical limit of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with wavepacket initial data. We recover the Wigner measure of the problem, a macroscopic phase-space density which controls the propagation of the physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Agissilaos Athanassoulis

An effective operational approach to quantum mechanics is to focus on the evolution of wave-packets, for which the wave-function can be seen in the semi-classical regime as representing a classical motion dressed with extra degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Etera R. Livine

A new approach to find exact solutions to one--dimensional quantum mechanical systems is devised. The scheme is based on the introduction of a potential function for the wavefunction, and the equation it satisfies. We recover known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Sergio A. Hojman , Felipe A. Asenjo

We consider the problem of numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation with a potential that is quasi periodic in space and time. We introduce a numerical scheme based on a newly developed multi-time scale and averaging technique. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-26 Tal Kachman , Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

We present a new method for the solution of the Schrodinger equation applicable to problems of non-perturbative nature. The method works by identifying three different scales in the problem, which then are treated independently: An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Arturo De Pace

In this paper, we determine the wave front sets of solutions to Schr\"odinger equations of a harmonic oscillator with sub-quadratic perturbation by using the representation of the Schr\"odinger evolution operator of a harmonic oscillator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Keiichi Kato , Shingo Ito

Schr\"odinger equations with time-dependent potentials are of central importance in quantum physics and theoretical chemistry, where they aid in the simulation and design of systems and processes at atomic scales. Numerical approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Arieh Iserles , Karolina Kropielnicka , Pranav Singh

It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

We consider semi-classical time evolution for the phase space Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We construct a semi-classical phase space propagator in terms of semi-classical wave packets by the Anisotropic Gaussian Approximation, related to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 P. D. Karageorge , G. N. Makrakis

In this article, we determine the wave front sets of solutions to time dependent Schr\"odinger equations with a sub-quadratic potential by using the representation of the Schr\"dingier evolution operator via wave packet transform (short…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Keiichi Kato , Shingo Ito

We reexamine the general solution of a Schr\"{o}dinger equation in the presence of a time-dependent linear potential in configuration space based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld framework. For comparison, we also solve the problem in momentum space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang

By their very nature, field-theoretical Hamiltonians are derived in momentum representation. To solve the corresponding integro-differential equations is more difficult than to solve the simpler differential equations in configuration space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bielefeld , J. Ihmels , H. C. Pauli

We propose an efficient reconstruction algorithm named the frozen Gaussian grid-point correction (FGGC) for computing the Schr\"odinger equation in the semi-classical regime using the frozen Gaussian approximation (FGA). The FGA has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Lihui Chai , Zili Deng

We build Gaussian wave packets for the linear Schr\"odinger equation and its finite difference space semi-discretization and illustrate the lack of uniform dispersive properties of the numerical solutions as established in Ignat, Zuazua,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Aurora-Mihaela Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We show that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger wave equation can reproduce all the features of linear quantum mechanics. This nonlinear wave equation is obtained by exploring, in a uniform language, the transition from fully classical theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Chris D. Richardson , Peter Schlagheck , John Martin , Nicolas Vandewalle , Thierry Bastin