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The quantum_dynamics package contains tools for simulation of 1D time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The package allows for simulation of 1D model potentials and time-dependent external interactions, e.g., an laser electric field in the dipole approximation.

This package has been created as a reference solution to an exercise in the computational physics course at Tampere University of Technology in Spring 2018.

The key numerical methods behind the package are:

  1. finite-difference approximation of the laplacian operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions at the endpoints of the simulation grid

  2. exponential mid-point rule for the time-evolution operator

  3. krylov-subspace based implementation of the matrix exponential

Upon successful installation, two executables are copied to your PATH:
  • qdyn_laser

  • plot_time_evolution

qdyn_laser

This simulates the electron in 1D soft coulomb potential (“1D hydrogen”) under laser electric field with sin^2 envelope and cosine carrier wave. Please consult the help of the script for all options: qdyn_laser --help.

After a successful simulation, an outputfile of HDF5-format is created. It contains the following datasets and groups

coordinate_grid

The gridpoints of the coordinate space used in the calculation.

savetimes

The times corresponding to the saved wavefunction values in the file.

wavefunction

A 2D array of values of the wavefunction. The first index corresponds to coordinate_grid and the second index to savetimes.

final_wavefunction

Wavefunction values at the end of the simulation.

laser

The laser electric field for all timesteps. First column is times, second the laser electric field values.

tise_hamiltonian

The time-independent part of the Hamiltonian matrix. It’s saved as a sparse matrix and can be loaded with quantum_dynamics.utils.load_sparse_matrix like:

from quantum_dynamics.utils import load_sparse matrix
import h5py

with h5py.File("myfile.h5", "r") as f:
    H0 = load_sparse_matrix(f['tise_hamiltonian'])

plot_time_evolution

This can be used to visualize the time-evolved density calcualted with qdyn_laser. For usage instructions, please see plot_time_evolution --help.

Authors

Janne Solanpää

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