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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua

In this manuscript, we propose newly-derived exponential quadrature rules for stiff linear differential equations with time-dependent fractional sources in the form $h(t^r)$, with $0<r<1$ and $h$ a sufficiently smooth function. To construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Marco Caliari , Fabio Cassini

We consider commutator-free exponential integrators as put forward in [Alverman, A., Fehske, H.: High-order commutator-free exponential time-propagation of driven quantum systems. J. Comput. Phys. 230, 5930-5956 (2011)]. For parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Harald Hofstätter , Othmar Koch

In order to popularize the so called Schwinger's method we reconsider the Feynman propagator of two non-relativistic systems: a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field and a charged harmonic oscillator in a uniform magnetic field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 A. Aragao , H. Boschi-Filho , C. Farina , F. A. Barone

Maxwell's equations are cast in the form of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The Lanczos propagation method is used in combination with the fast Fourier pseudospectral method to solve the initial value problem. As a result, a time-domain,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei G. Borisov , Sergei V. Shabanov

In this article, I present a very fast and high-precision (up to 33 decimal places) C++ implementation of the semi-global time propagation algorithm for a system of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. It can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Janek Kozicki

We present a stochastic method for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, generalizing a ground-state full configuration interaction Quantum Monte Carlo method. By performing the time-integration in the complex plane close to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Kai Guther , Werner Dobrautz , Olle Gunnarsson , Ali Alavi

In this work we present the simplest generic form of the propagator for the time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian. We manifest the simplicity of our method by giving explicitly the propagators for a free particle in time-dependent electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 Gal Harari , Yacob Ben-Aryeh , Ady Mann

Starting from Feynman's Lagrangian description of quantum mechanics, we propose a method to construct explicitly the propagator for the Wigner distribution function of a single system. For general quadratic Lagrangians, only the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Fons Brosens , Wim Magnus

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

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Daisuke Aiba , Kenji Yajima

The general formalism of the free Dirac fermions on spatially flat $(1+3)$-dimensional Friedmann-Lema\^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes is developed in momentum representation. The mode expansions in terms of the fundamental spinors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-10 Ion I. Cotaescu

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Ole Steuernagel

The propagators (fundamental solutions) of the heat and Schr\"odinger's equations on the half-line with a combined harmonic oscillator and inverse-square potential calculated in the recent paper [{\em J. Math. Phys.} {\bf 59}, 051507…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Güngör

Efficient simulation of quantum dynamics with time-dependent Hamiltonians is important not only for time-varying systems but also for time-independent Hamiltonians in the interaction picture. Such simulations are more challenging than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Di Fang , Diyi Liu , Shuchen Zhu

Hamiltonian simulation is arguably the most fundamental application of quantum computers. The Magnus operator is a popular method for time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation in computational mathematics, yet its usage requires the…

We develop a spectral cut-off construction of real-time oscillatory integrals associated with non-autonomous Hamiltonian evolution equations. Let \(H_0\) be a positive self-adjoint reference operator on a Hilbert space \(\Hilb\), and let…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We discuss some general aspects of commutators of local operators in Lorentzian CFTs, which can be obtained from a suitable analytic continuation of the Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Commutators only make sense as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-02 Mert Besken , Jan de Boer , Grégoire Mathys

In this note we study the properties of a sequence of approximate propagators for the Schr\"odinger equation, in the spirit of Feynman's path integrals. Precisely, we consider Hamiltonian operators arising as the Weyl quantization of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 S. Ivan Trapasso

Magnus expansion (ME) provides a general way to expand the real-time propagator of a time-dependent Hamiltonian within the exponential such that the unitarity is satisfied at any order. We use this property and explicit integration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Taner M. Ture , Seogjoo J. Jang