Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Trapped Bosons with the MCTDHB Package: Towards New Horizons with Novel Physics

Shachar Klaiman, Axel U. J. Lode, Kaspar Sakmann, Oksana I. Streltsova, Ofir E. Alon, Lorenz S. Cederbaum and Alexej I. Streltsov ()
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Shachar Klaiman: Universität Heidelberg, Theoretische Chemie
Axel U. J. Lode: Universität Basel, Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Computing Group, Departement für Physik
Kaspar Sakmann: Stanford University, Department of Physics
Oksana I. Streltsova: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Laboratory of Information Technologies
Ofir E. Alon: University of Haifa at Oranim, Department of Physics
Lorenz S. Cederbaum: Universität Heidelberg, Theoretische Chemie
Alexej I. Streltsov: Universität Heidelberg, Theoretische Chemie

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘14, 2015, pp 63-86 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The MCTDHB package has been applied to study the physics of trapped interacting many-boson systems by solving the underlying time-dependent (as well as the time-independent) many-boson Schrödinger equation. Here we report on four studies where novel physical ideas and phenomena have been proposed and discovered: (a) Universality of the fragmentation dynamics in double wells – at long propagation times properties of the evolving system saturate to some asymptotic values; (b) Novel many-body spectral features in trapped systems – the newly-developed linear-response theory on-top of MCTDHB predicts the existence of low-lying excitations not described so far by the standard theory even in harmonic potentials; (c) Efficient protocol to control the many-particle tunneling dynamics to open space, by combining the effects of a threshold potential and inter-particle interaction; (d) Physics behind the formation of patterns in the ground states of trapped bosonic systems with strong finite- and long-range repulsive interactions and the origin of their dynamical stability. From the perspective of the required computational resources and numerical algorithms applied, each of these numerically-demanding studies has challenged different aspects of computational physics and mathematics: Long-time propagation – stability of the numerical methods used to integrate the MCTDHB equations-of-motion; Control of the tunneling dynamics – a very detailed study where an interplay of the parameters controlling the decay by tunneling dynamics is accompanied by a long-time propagation on huge spatial grids, which are needed to simulate open systems; Excited states of many-body systems – construction and diagonalization of complex non-hermitian linear-response matrices; Finite- and long-range interactions in 1D, 2D, and 3D setups – efficient methods and techniques for evaluation of involved high-dimensional integrals. Implications and further perspectives and future plans are briefly discussed and addressed.

Keywords: Interparticle Interaction; Natural Orbital; Harmonic Trap; Fragmentation Phenomenon; Tunneling Dynamic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10810-0_5

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