Monte Carlo sampling of Wigner functions and surface hopping quantum dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1947-1962

  Kube, Susanna ^a   Lasser, Caroline ^b   Weber, Marcus ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metropolis Monte Carlo; Quantum dynamics; Surface hopping

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

GAUSSIAN WEIGHT; METROPOLIS ALGORITHMS; METROPOLIS MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SAMPLING; NON-ADIABATIC; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; REAL-VALUED FUNCTIONS; SURFACE HOPPING; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 59149086364     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.11.016     Document Type: Article

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