Transient Effect of a Free Particle Wave Packet in the Hydrodynamic Formulation of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-23-2003
Publication Title
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
Abstract
This article scrutinizes anomalies in accuracy studies by Brook et al. Int J Quantum Chem 2001, 85, 263-271 for a moving free particle. These studies were carried out in the framework of the quantum trajectory method developed from Bohm's hydrodynamic formalism. These accuracy studies exhibited a strange behavior of the relative error in the probability density that apparently contradicts the quantum fluid dynamic formalism. It is found that improper initialization of the pseudoparticle velocities is responsible for the observed anomalies. This article presents a method for appropriate initialization of the pseudoparticle velocities. It also evaluates the accuracy of this method by reinvestigating accuracy studies by Brook et al. for a moving free particle.
Repository Citation
Vadapalli, R. K., Weatherford, C. A., Banicescu, I., Carino, R. L., and Zhu, J. (2003). Transient Effect of a Free Particle Wave Packet in the Hydrodynamic Formulation of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 94(1),1-6, doi: 10.1002/qua.10571.
Original Citation
Vadapalli, R. K., Weatherford, C. A., Banicescu, I., Carino, R. L., and Zhu, J. (2003). Transient Effect of a Free Particle Wave Packet in the Hydrodynamic Formulation of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 94(1),1-6, doi: 10.1002/qua.10571.
DOI
10.1002/qua.10571
Publisher's Statement
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Volume
94
Issue
1
Comments
This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grants NSF ITR/ACS Award ACI0081303 and Award EEC-9730381.