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For almost 75 years, the general solution for the Schr\"odinger equation was assumed to be generated by an exponential or a time-ordered exponential known as the Dyson series. We study the unitarity of a solution in the case of a singular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Yair Mulian

We consider the semiclassical Schr\"odinger equation on a compact negatively curved surface. For any sequence of initial data microlocalized on the unit cotangent bundle, we look at the quantum evolution (below the Ehrenfest time) under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Suresh Eswarathasan , Gabriel Riviere

Quantum confinement is studied by numerically solving time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. An imaginary-time evolution technique is employed in conjunction with the minimization of an expectation value, to reach the global minimum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Amlan K. Roy

We derive optimal order a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete approximations of linear Schr\"odinger-type equations, in the $L^\infty(L^2)-$norm. For the discretization in time we use the Crank-Nicolson method, while for the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Theodoros Katsaounis , Irene Kyza

The conventional, time-dependent Schroedinger equation describes only unidirectional time evolution of the state of a physical system, i.e., forward or, less commonly, backward. This paper proposes a generalized quantum dynamics for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. E. Hahne

In this paper, we study the Crank-Nicolson method for temporal dimension and the piecewise quadratic polynomial collocation method for spatial dimensions of time-dependent nonlocal problems. The new theoretical results of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Rongjun Cao , Minghua Chen , Michael K. Ng , Yu-Jiang Wu

We explore the applicability of splitting methods involving complex coefficients to solve numerically the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. We prove that a particular class of integrators are conjugate to unitary methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Escorihuela-Tomàs

In this work we study the unitary time-evolutions of quantum systems defined on infinite-dimensional separable time-dependent Hilbert spaces. Two possible cases are considered: a quantum system defined on a stochastic interval and another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Luca Curcuraci , Stefano Bacchi , Angelo Bassi

In recent years, there has been growing interest in characterizing the complexity of quantum evolutions of interacting many-body systems. When a time-independent Hamiltonian governs the dynamics, Krylov complexity has emerged as a powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Carlos Pineda , Diego A. Wisniacki

The numerical integration of particle trajectories in curved spacetimes is fundamental for obtaining realistic models of the particle dynamics around massive compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Generalized algorithms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Alexander Yuran Chen , Lorenzo Sironi

We explore the possibility of adding complex absorbing potential at the boundaries when solving the one-dimensional real-time Schr\"odinger evolution on a grid using a quantum computer with a fully quantum algorithm described on a $n$ qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Mariane Mangin-Brinet , Jing Zhang , Denis Lacroix , Edgar Andres Ruiz Guzman

The induced polarization oscillations in a one-dimensional rectangular quantum well are modeled by a numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. The finite-difference discretization over time is realized in the framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Pavel Belov , Rostislav Arkhipov

The generalized Crank-Nicolson method is employed to obtain numerical solutions of the two-dimensional time-dependent Schrodinger equation. An adapted alternating-direction implicit method is used, along with a high-order finite difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Wytse van Dijk , Trevor Vanderwoerd , Sjirk-Jan Prins

We discuss umbral calculus as a method of systematically discretizing linear differential equations while preserving their point symmetries as well as generalized symmetries. The method is then applied to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Decio Levi , Piergiulio Tempesta , Pavel Winternitz

Quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation and linear differential equations more generally have provided promising exponential speed-ups over classical computers on a set of problems with high real-world interest. However, extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Noah Brüstle , Nathan Wiebe

An "exact discretization" of the Schroedinger operator is considered and its direct and inverse scattering problems are solved. It is shown that a differential-difference nonlinear evolution equation depending on two arbitrary constants can…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 M Boiti , F Pempinelli , B Prinari , A. Spire

Utilization of a quantum system whose time-development is described by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the transformation of qubits would make it possible to construct quantum algorithms which would be useful in a large class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cemal Yalabik

Simulating time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems using classical numerical approaches has an exponentially growing cost either with evolution time or with the system size. In this work, we present a polynomially scaling hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation on a metric graph with time-dependent edge lengths, and the proper way to pose the problem so that the corresponding time evolution is unitary. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Uzy Smilansky , Gilad Sofer

This paper introduces filtered finite difference methods for numerically solving a dispersive evolution equation with solutions that are highly oscillatory in both space and time. We consider a semiclassically scaled nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Yanyan Shi , Christian Lubich