The projector-splitting integrator for the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree method revisited.
We revisit a recently introduced algorithm [C. Lubich, Appl. Math. Res. eXpress 2015, 311 (2015), B. Kloss et al., J. Chem. Phys. 146, 174107 (2017)] for the integration of the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) equations for high-dimensional quantum propagation. The new integrator circumvents the direct inversion of reduced density matrices that appears in the standard method, by employing an auxiliary set of non-orthogonal single-particle functions. Here, we review the formulation of this new algorithm, with the aim of providing a bridge between the conventional formulation of MCTDH and the original, more mathematically oriented derivation of the new algorithm within a tensor formalism. We recast the alternative form of the MCTDH equations underlying the algorithm in conventional language, and highlight key features of the integration scheme. Furthermore, we emphasize the derivation of the method in the broader context of the time-dependent variational problem, where the new equations of motion are naturally obtained from a specific splitting of the tangent-space projector.
Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01058
DOI: arXiv:1802.01058v1
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