English
Related papers

Related papers: No need for a grid: Adaptive fully-flexible gaussi…

200 papers

An embedding method for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is developed using the Dirac-Frenkel variational principle. Embedding allows the time-evolution of the wavefunction to be calculated explicitly in a limited region of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. E. Inglesfield

Lattice models are abundant in theoretical and condensed-matter physics. Generally, lattice models contain time-independent hopping and interaction parameters that are derived from the Wannier functions of the noninteracting problem. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Kaspar Sakmann , Alexej I. Streltsov , Ofir E. Alon , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We review an explicit approach to obtaining numerical solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation that is conceptionally straightforward and capable of significant accuracy and efficiency. The method and its efficacy are illustrated with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Wytse van Dijk

We outline a method based on successive canonical transformations which yields a product expansion for the evolution operator of a general (possibly non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian. For a class of such Hamiltonians this expansion involves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Mostafazadeh

Fractional nonlinear differential equations present an interplay between two common and important effective descriptions used to simplify high dimensional or more complicated theories: nonlinearity and fractional derivatives. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-05 U. Al Khawaja , M. Al-Refai , Lincoln D. Carr

Solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) is pivotal for modeling non-adiabatic electron dynamics, a key process in ultrafast spectroscopy and laser-matter interactions. However, exact solutions to the TDSE remain…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Bizi Huang , Weizhong Fu , Ji Chen

We present a program to simulate the dynamics of a wave packet interacting with a time-dependent potential. The time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is solved on a one-, two-, or three-dimensional spatial grid using the split operator…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 C. M. Dion , A. Hashemloo , G. Rahali

Transparent boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrodinger equation are implemented using the R-matrix method. The employed scattering formalism is suitable for describing open quantum systems and provides the framework for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 G. A. Nemnes , Alexandra Palici , A. Manolescu

We propose a simple quantum algorithm for simulating highly oscillatory quantum dynamics, which does not require complicated quantum control logic for handling time-ordering operators. To our knowledge, this is the first quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Dong An , Di Fang , Lin Lin

We propose new methods designed to numerically approximate the solution to the time dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation, based on two types of ansatz: tensors, and approximation by a linear combination of gaussian wave packets. In both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Mi-Song Dupuy , Virginie Ehrlacher , Clément Guillot

A nonperturbative procedure of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, called the multi-projection approach or phase dynamics of quantum mechanics, is derived and illustrated. In addition to introducing a method with that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Y. Chen

We propose a space-time isogeometric finite element method for the linear Schr\"odinger equation, and establish its unconditional stability through a matrix-based analysis. Although maximal-regularity splines in time provide higher accuracy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Matteo Ferrari , Sergio Gómez

An alternative method is proposed for deriving the time dependent Schroedinger equation from the pictures of wave and matrix mechanics. The derivation is of a mixed classical quantum character, since time is treated as a classical variable,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Luca Nanni

The numerical simulation of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for quantum systems is a very active research topic. Yet, resolving the solution sufficiently in space and time is challenging and mandates the use of modern…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Hannah Rittich , Robert Speck

The higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation (Dysthe's equation in the context of water-waves) models the time evolution of the slowly modulated amplitude of a wave-packet in dispersive partial differential equations (PDE). These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Jack Keeler , Alberto Alberello , Ben Humphries , Emilian Parau

In this paper, we present a simple analytical method for obtaining a nonspreading solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, which is given by the Airy function. The solution is derived by imposing a restriction on the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-19 Tamoghna Majumdar , Maitraya Kanta Bhattacharyya , Kumble Rajesh Nayak

This report discusses two new ideas for using perturbation methods to solve the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The first concept begins with rewriting the perturbation equations in a form that is closely related to matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Gerald I. Kerley

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

We propose an approximate solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using the method of stationary states combined with a variational matrix method for finding the energies and eigenstates. We illustrate the effectiveness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Francisco M. Fernandez , Hugh Jones

We approximate the solution for the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) in two steps. We first use a pseudo-spectral collocation method that uses samples of functions on rank-1 or rank-r lattice points with unitary Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Yuya Suzuki , Gowri Suryanarayana , Dirk Nuyens