The (t, t′)
method for
quantum dynamics with general time-dependent Hamiltonians is exact
yet expensive to implement, in the context of laser–atom, laser–molecule
interactions. The evolution operator requires a huge storage space
with a large operation count for the propagation. A new method is
suggested in this work where an analytical block diagonalization of
the Floquet Hamiltonian is proposed. The block diagonalization in
this novel algorithm is based on Chebyshev polynomials of the second
kind. This is combined with a split operator method of chosen order
to approximate the full evolution operator. The number of operations
are drastically reduced to that of a matrix-vector multiplication
repeated only to the order of the number of Floquet channels. Hence,
only matrices of the order of the number of position basis functions
need to be stored. Thus, the presented algorithm is an effective tool
for solving the (t, t′, t′′) problem for interactions with a bichromatic
laser and a single-frequency laser pulse with explicit interactions
of the pulse envelope. Hydrogen atom, helium, water, and ammonia,
represented with Hamiltonians obtained from standard electronic structure
packages, have been investigated in the presence of linearly polarized
pulsed laser fields and bichromatic laser fields presenting various
time-dependent properties from the program.
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