Numerical Evaluation of Coherent-state Path Integrals with Applications to Time-dependent Problems
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We study the application of the coherent-state path integral as a numerical tool for wave-packet propagation. The numerical evaluation of path integrals is reduced to a matrix-vector multiplication scheme. Together with a split-operator technique we apply our method to a time-dependent double-well potential.
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