Solving time dependent Schrödinger equation by quantum walk

Hideo Sekino
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japon.
Lundi 10 Juin 2013, 14h00
bibliothèque LCT, tour 12 - 13, 4e étage

Three Dimensional Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation (TDSE) with an initial Gaussian distribution is solved using a discrete time/space Quantum Walk (QW). Coin space (corresponding to the internal degree of freedom) in the three dimensional Hilbert space is generated by a tensor product of local unitary transformation corresponding to each Cartesian direction. The result obtained is compared with the one by traditional finite difference (FD) method. We find no numerically significant difference between them.