Time evolution as an optimization problem: The hydrogen atom in strong laser fields in a basis of time-dependent Gaussian wave packets
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| author | Schrader, Simon Elias Kristiansen, Håkon Emil Pedersen, Thomas Bondo Kvaal, Simen |
| author_facet | Schrader, Simon Elias Kristiansen, Håkon Emil Pedersen, Thomas Bondo Kvaal, Simen |
| contents | Recent advances in attosecond science have made it increasingly important to develop stable, reliable and accurate algorithms and methods to model the time evolution of atoms and molecules in intense laser fields. A key process in attosecond science is high-harmonic generation, which is challenging to model with fixed Gaussian basis sets, as it produces high-energy electrons, with a resulting rapidly varying and highly oscillatory wave function that extends over dozens of ångström. Recently, Rothe's method, where time evolution is rephrased as an optimization problem, has been applied to the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. Here, we apply Rothe's method to the hydrogen wave function and demonstrate that complex-valued Gaussian wave packets with time-dependent width, center, and momentum parameters are able to reproduce spectra obtained from essentially exact grid calculations for high-harmonic generation with only 50-181 Gaussians for field strengths up to $5\times 10^{14}$W/cm$^2$. This paves the way for the inclusion of continuum contributions into real-time, time-dependent electronic-structure theory with Gaussian basis sets for strong fields, and eventually accurate simulations of the time evolution of molecules without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. |
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| spellingShingle | Time evolution as an optimization problem: The hydrogen atom in strong laser fields in a basis of time-dependent Gaussian wave packets Schrader, Simon Elias Kristiansen, Håkon Emil Pedersen, Thomas Bondo Kvaal, Simen Chemical Physics Atomic Physics Recent advances in attosecond science have made it increasingly important to develop stable, reliable and accurate algorithms and methods to model the time evolution of atoms and molecules in intense laser fields. A key process in attosecond science is high-harmonic generation, which is challenging to model with fixed Gaussian basis sets, as it produces high-energy electrons, with a resulting rapidly varying and highly oscillatory wave function that extends over dozens of ångström. Recently, Rothe's method, where time evolution is rephrased as an optimization problem, has been applied to the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. Here, we apply Rothe's method to the hydrogen wave function and demonstrate that complex-valued Gaussian wave packets with time-dependent width, center, and momentum parameters are able to reproduce spectra obtained from essentially exact grid calculations for high-harmonic generation with only 50-181 Gaussians for field strengths up to $5\times 10^{14}$W/cm$^2$. This paves the way for the inclusion of continuum contributions into real-time, time-dependent electronic-structure theory with Gaussian basis sets for strong fields, and eventually accurate simulations of the time evolution of molecules without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. |
| title | Time evolution as an optimization problem: The hydrogen atom in strong laser fields in a basis of time-dependent Gaussian wave packets |
| topic | Chemical Physics Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07699 |