High-order commutator-free exponential time-propagation of driven quantum systems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5930-5956

  Alvermann, A ^a   Fehske, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Driven quantum systems; Lie group integrators; Magnus expansion; Time dependent Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DRIVEN QUANTUM SYSTEM; EXPONENTIAL TIME; HAMILTONS; LIE GROUP INTEGRATOR; LIE-GROUPS; MAGNUS EXPANSION; QUANTUM SYSTEM; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME PROPAGATION; TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION;

LIE GROUPS;

EID: 79956135264     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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