Workshop on Quantum Trajectories Programme

 

Sunday, 11th of July - Registration between 15:00-17:00 (Further details soon)

Session 1 Monday, 12th of July

8:30 Welcome and introduction to CCP6

Keith H. Hughes, Bangor University, UK

8:45  Talk

Christoph Meier, Universite Paul Sabatier, France

9:25  Bohmian Mechanics Without Pilot Waves

Bill Poirier, Texas Tech University, USA

10:05 Tea break

10:30 The bipolar reaction path Hamiltonian (BRPH) approach for
multi-dimensional reactive scattering systems

Jeremy Maddox, Western Kentucky University, USA

11:10  An Iterative Finite Difference Method for Solving the Quantum Hydrodynamic Equations of Motion

Brian Kendrick, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

11:50 Quantum trajectory dynamics in imaginary time with the momentum-dependent
quantum potential

Sophya Garashchuk, University of South Carolina, USA

12:30 Lunch

13:50 New Developments in Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action

David Tannor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

14:30 Kinematic Quantum Trajectories

Tim Coffey, University of Texas, USA

15:10 Tea break

15:40 Complex Trajectories and Dynamical Origin of Quantum Probability

Moncy Vilavinal John, St Thomas College, India

16:20 Chemical Reactivity Dynamics within a Quantum Fluid Density Functional Framework

Pratim K. Chattaraj, Indian Institute of Technology

Session 2 Tuesday, 13th of July

8:30 Adventures in Computational Electrodynamics: Shedding Light on Bohm, or is it Brining Bohm to Light?

Robert E. Wyatt, University of Texas, USA

9:10 An Account of Quantum Interference from a Hydrodynamical Perspective

Angel S. Sanz, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Serrano, Spain

9:50 The Classical Schrödinger Equation as Field Theory in Complex Space

Xavier Gimenez, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

10:30 Tea break

11:00 A Dynamical Systems Approach to Quantum Trajectories

Florentino Borondo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

11:40 Conceptual issues, practicalities and applications of Bohmian Trajectories in Nanoelectronics

John Barker, University of Glasgow, UK

12:20 Lunch

13:30 The Bohmian Model, Semiclassical Systems and the Emergence of Classical Trajectories

Alexandre Matzkin, CNRS/Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France

14:10 Quantum Trajectory Computation of Ultrashort Laser Pulse Excitation Dynamics

Gerard Parlant, Universite Montpellier, France

14:50 Tea break

15:20 Quantum Dynamics and Super-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics

Eric Bittner, University of Houston, USA

16:00 Bohmian trajectories of semiclassical wave packets

Sarah Roemer, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany

16:40 Bohmian Mechanics and its Application in Numerics

Peter Pickl, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Session 3 Wednesday, 14th of July

8:30 Quantum Trajectories in Phase Space

Craig Martens, University of California, Irvine, USA

9:10 The Semi-Classical Limit of Time Correlation Functions by Path Integrals

Giovanni Cicotti, University College Dublin, Ireland

9:50 Path-integral calculation of (symmetrized) time correlation  functions

Sara Bonella, Universita' di Roma, Italy

10:30 Tea break

11:00 Iterative Linearized Density Matrix Propagation for Modeling Coherent Excitation Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

David Coker, University College Dublin, Ireland

11:40 Variational principles and methods based on trajectory guided grids of Gaussian Coherent States

Dmitry Shalashilin, University of Leeds, UK

12:20 Lunch

13:30 Quantum, Classical, and Mixed Quantum-Classical Hydrodynamics

Irene Burghardt, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

14:10 Principles of Time Dependent Quantum Monte Carlo

Ivan P. Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria

14:50 Tea break

15:20 Trajectory based solution of the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics equations: an on-the-fly approach for molecular dynamics simulations

Ivano Tavernelli, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

16:00 Quantum Many-Particle Computations with Bohmian Trajectories: Application to Electron Transport in Nanoelectronic Devices

Xavier Oriols, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain