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Time-dependent quantum mechanics provides an intuitive picture of particle propagation in external fields. Semiclassical methods link the classical trajectories of particles with their quantum mechanical propagation. Many analytical results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 Tobias Kramer , Eric J. Heller , Robert E. Parrott

The retarded Green function for linear field perturbations of black hole spacetimes is notoriously difficult to calculate. One of the difficulties is due to a Dirac-$\delta$ divergence that the Green function possesses when the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-27 Marc Casals , Brien C. Nolan , Adrian C. Ottewill , Barry Wardell

A Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) scheme with Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) is considered for solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and simulate the ionization of an electron initially bound to a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Høgni C. Kamban , Sigurd S. Christensen , Thomas Søndergaard , Thomas G. Pedersen

A universal numerical method is developed for the investigation of magnetic neutron scattering. By applying the pseudospectral-time-domain (PSTD) algorithm to the spinor version of the Schr\"odinger equation, the evolution of the spin-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Kun Chen

We describe a parallel algorithm for solving the time-independent 3d Schrodinger equation using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We introduce an optimized parallelization scheme that reduces communication overhead between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael Strickland , David Yager-Elorriaga

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied for modelling of wire media as artificial dielectrics. Both frequency dispersion and spatial dispersion effects in wire media are taken into account using the auxiliary differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan Zhao , Pavel Belov , Yang Hao

Higher-order accurate solution to electromagnetic scattering problems are obtained at reduced computational cost in a {\it p}-variable finite volume time domain method. Spatial operators of lower, including first-order accuracy, are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 A. Chatterjee , S. M. Joshi

An integral equation method for scalar scattering in Schwarzschild spacetime is constructed. The zeroth-order and first-order scattering phase shift is obtained.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Wen-Du Li , Yu-Zhu Chen , Wu-Sheng Dai

The two-time Green function method in quantum electrodynamics of high-Z few-electron atoms is described in detail. This method provides a simple procedure for deriving formulas for the energy shift of a single level and for the energies and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. M. Shabaev

A conformal dispersive finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is developed for the study of one-dimensional (1-D) plasmonic waveguides formed by an array of periodic infinite-long silver cylinders at optical frequencies. The curved…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan Zhao , Yang Hao

We extend our finite difference time domain method for numerical solution of the Schrodinger equation to cases where eigenfunctions are complex-valued. Illustrative numerical results for an electron in two dimensions, subject to a confining…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-07-05 I. Wayan Sudiarta , D. J. Wallace Geldart

The retarded Green function for linear field perturbations in Schwarzschild black hole space-time possesses a branch cut in the complex-frequency plane. This branch cut has remained largely unexplored: only asymptotic analyses either for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Marc Casals , Adrian C. Ottewill

We propose a quantum experiment to measure with high precision the Schwarzschild space-time parameters of the Earth. The scheme can also be applied to measure distances by taking into account the curvature of the Earth's space-time. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 David Edward Bruschi , Animesh Datta , Rupert Ursin , Timothy C. Ralph , Ivette Fuentes

We present an elementary nonperturbative method to obtain Green's functions (GFs) for timelike momenta. We assume there are no singularities in the first and third quadrants of the complex plane of space momentum components and perform a 3d…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 V. Sauli , Z. Batiz

We extend the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method to treat dispersive magnetic media by incorporating magneto-optical effects through a frequency-dependent permittivity tensor. For benchmarking our method, we consider the light scattering…

This paper presents a windowed Green function (WGF) method for the numerical solution of problems of elastic scattering by "locally-rough surfaces" (i.e., local perturbations of a half space), under either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Oscar P. Bruno , Tao Yin

Electromagnetic scattering in moving structures is a fundamental topic in physics and engineering. Yet, no general numerical solution to related problems has been reported to date. We introduce here a generalized FDTD scheme to remedy this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Amir Bahrami , Zhiyu Li , Christophe Caloz

An alternative way of visualizing electromagnetic waves in matter and of deriving the Finite Difference Time Domain method (FDTD) for simulating Maxwell's equations for one dimensional systems is presented. The method uses d'Alembert's…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ross Hyman , Nathaniel Stern , Allen Taflove

We report a new computational model for simulations of electromagnetic interactions with semiconductor quantum well(s) (SQW) in complex electromagnetic geometries using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The presented model is…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Koustuban Ravi , Qian Wang , Seng-Tiong Ho

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam