Electron Correlation via Frozen Gaussian Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate the accuracy and efficiency of the semiclassical Frozen Gaussian method in describing electron dynamics in real time. Model systems of two soft-Coulomb-interacting electrons are used to study correlated dynamics under non-perturbative electric fields, as well as the excitation spectrum. The results show that a recently proposed method that combines exact-exchange with semiclassical correlation to propagate the one-body density-matrix holds promise for electron dynamics in many situations that either wavefunction or density-functional methods have difficulty describing. The results also however point out challenges in such a method that need to be addressed before it can become widely applicable.

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