Multi-configurational Time Dependant Hartree (MCTDH)
Nicholas J. Browning
Contents
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Time Dependant Picture
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Standard Method (SM)
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Variational Principle (VP)
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SM Equations of Motion (EoM)
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Pitfalls of SM
 
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Multi-configurational TDH (MCTDH)
- MCTDH EoM
 - MCTDH Memory Requirements
 - MCTDH Numerical Effort
 - MCTDH Limitations
 
 - MCTDH Mode Combination
 - MCTDH Example
 
Time Dependant Picture
(TI) orthonormal basis functions
    
    Goal: derive equations of motion for coefficients
the Standard Method
    nuclear coordinates or DoF
    TD expansion coefficients
    
    number of basis functions for DoF k
    number of DoF
Variational Principle
Dirac-Frenkel Variational Principle
SM Equations of Motion
Pitfalls of the Standard Method
Need at least 10 basis functions
per degree of freedom
coupled equations to be solved
E.g. 6 atom molecule
Time Dependant Hartree (TDH)
constraints:









variation in








variation in

TDH EoM
choice of gk is arbitrary - simply shifts phase factors between a and \psi_k

TDH Pitfalls
TDH reduces an f-dimensional PDE to a set of f one-dimensional PDEs
SM
TDH

visualisation of v - <v>
MCTDH
MCTDH
DFVP
MCTDH - Memory
| f | Standard Method | MCTDH | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1.54MB | 190KB | 343 | 672 | 32768 | 
| 4 | 48MB | 620KB | 2401 | 896 | 1.05E+06 | 
| 6 | 48GB | 22MB | 117E+03 | 1344 | 1.07E+09 | 
| 9 | 1.54PB | 7.2GB | 40E+06 | 2016 | 3.5E+13 | 
n=7, N=32
MCTDH - CPU EFFORT
Limiting factor for both memory and CPU is A-vector length
MCTDH - Limitations
MCTDH - Mode Combination

MCTDH-MC Pictoral Representation

a) Standard method
b) MCTDH
c) MCTDH with Mode Combination
d) ML-MCTDH (3 layer)
e) ML-MCTDH (4 layer)
MCTDH Mode Combination - Memory
| f | St. Method | MCTDH | 2-mode MCTDH | 3-mode MCTDH | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 48KB | 282KB | - | - | 
| 4 | 48MB | 620KB | 6MB | - | 
| 6 | 48GB | 22MB | 10MB | 290MB | 
| 10 | 48PB | 51GB | 160MB | 310MB | 
| 15 | - | - | 210GB | 
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| 18 | - | - | 7.38TB | 29.3GB | 
Example: Butatriene PhotoIonisation



C. Cattarius, G. A. Worth, H. D. Meyer, L. S. Cederbaum, J. Chem. Phys, 115 (2001), 2088-2100.
18f, 2 electronic states

Thanks.
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