Thawed Gaussian wave packet dynamics: a critical assessment of three propagation schemes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01729v2
• Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:55:26 GMT
• Title: Thawed Gaussian wave packet dynamics: a critical assessment of three propagation schemes
• Abstract summary: Two other approximate schemes, Heller's and the extended semiclassical ones, demonstrate various aberrations. We conclude that only the TDVP-based scheme is suitable for problem-free dynamical simulations.
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• Abstract: We assessed three schemes for propagating a variable-width (thawed) Gaussian wave packet moving under the influence of Morse or double-well potentials with parameters that are chemically representative. The most rigorous scheme is based on the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP); it leads to realistic behaviour of the center and width of a wave packet in all investigated regimes. Two other approximate schemes, Heller's and the extended semiclassical ones, demonstrate various aberrations. Heller's scheme does not properly account for various zero-point energy-related effects, is unable to predict tunneling, and more importantly, exhibits completely nonphysical unbound width oscillations. The extended semiclassical scheme, which was developed to address some of the shortcomings of the Heller counterpart, demonstrates another unphysical behaviour: self-trapping of a trajectory in both Morse and double-well potentials. We conclude that only the TDVP-based scheme is suitable for problem-free dynamical simulations. This, however, raises the question of how to utilize it efficiently in high-dimensional systems.

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