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