From Quantum to Classical Molecular Dynamics

Download or read book From Quantum to Classical Molecular Dynamics written by Christian Lubich and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum dynamics of molecules poses a variety of computational challenges that are presently at the forefront of research efforts in numerical analysis in a number of application areas: high-dimensional partial differential equations, multiple scales, highly oscillatory solutions, and geometric structures such as symplecticity and reversibility that are favourably preserved in discretizations. This text addresses such problems in quantum mechanics from the viewpoint of numerical analysis, illustrating them to a large extent on intermediate models between the Schrodinger equation of full many-body quantum dynamics and the Newtonian equations of classical molecular dynamics. The fruitful interplay between quantum dynamics and numerical analysis is emphasized.