General initial value form of the semiclassical propagator

Bambi Hu, Quanlin Jie, Baowen Li, Shunjin Wang

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Abstract

We show a general initial value form of the semiclassical propagator. Similar to cellular dynamics, this formulation involves only the nearby orbits approximation: the evolution of nearby orbits is approximated by linearized dynamics. This phase space smearing formulation keeps the accuracy of the original Van Vleck-Gutzwiller propagator. As an illustration, we present a simple initial value form of the semiclassical propagator. It is nonsingular everywhere and is efficient for numeric implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044102
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume63
Issue number4
Early online date16 Mar 2001
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2001

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