Many-body theory for systems with particle conversion: Extending the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Alon, Ofir E ^a   Streltsov, Alexej I ^a   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOUND REPRODUCTION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR ORBITALS; BOSONIC ATOMS; BOSONIC MOLECULES; CLOSED FORMS; COUPLED EQUATIONS; DENSITY MATRICES; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; FIRST-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FIXED NUMBERS; HARTREE METHODS; HERMITIAN MATRICES; LAGRANGIAN FORMULATIONS; MANY-BODY THEORIES; NONCONSERVING; NONLINEAR INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ORBITALS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; TIME DEPENDENTS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 60349125077     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.022503     Document Type: Article

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