Program
The MCTDH Summer School offers an intensive training program designed to provide participants with hands-on experience using the Heidelberg MCTDH software, as well as theoretical background on the underlying principles and methods, including its multilayer generalization.
The program targets mainly PhD students, early-stage researchers, and aims at providing them with sufficient proficiency to afterward apply the MCTDH method in their day-to-day research activities.
The school spreads over five days with theory sessions in the morning and hands-on exercises in the afternoon. A detailed program is to be announced. The list of topics covered includes:
- Numerical methods for quantum dynamics
- MCTDH theory
- Introduction to polyspherical coordinates
- Mode combination and multilayer trees
- Vibronic Hamiltonians for photophysics and photochemistry
- Scattering and molecular dissociation
- High-dimensional problems
- Hands-on exercises with the Quantics / Heidelberg MCTDH package, including
- Installation and troubleshooting
- Spectroscopy & quantum control
- Reactive scattering
- Direct dynamics / GWP
- Practical use of the TANA program for deriving analytical kinetic operators
- Potential energy operators in sum-of-products form