Dynamics of Gaussian Wigner functions derived from a time-dependent variational principle

By using a time-dependent variational principle formulated for Wigner phase-space functions, we obtain the optimal time-evolution for two classes of Gaussian Wigner functions, namely those of either thawed real-valued or frozen but complex Gaussians. It is shown that tunneling effects are approximat...

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Main Authors: Jens Aage Poulsen, S. Karl-Mikael Svensson, Gunnar Nyman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2017-11-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5004757