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May 3 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 23 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 23 |
answered | Reciprocal lattice and phonon |
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Jan 18 |
accepted | Dynamics of a Rocket |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jan 18 |
accepted | Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice |
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Dec 31 |
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice @hwlau Ashcroft & Mermin has a chapter on semiclassical techniques. However, the equations presented deal with the evolution of a wavepacket under external fields, which is not exactly my problem. Perhaps it is possible to deal with varying $w_n$ as a defect using perturbation theory? A small bounty would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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Dec 31 |
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice @hwlau I'm simulating lattices with the number of sites of order $10^3$. A preparing a Hilbert space of order $O(2^n)$ is still too large. |
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Dec 30 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Dec 30 |
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Dec 30 |
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Dynamics of a Rocket Thanks for bringing this up; I forgot to mention that we will be incorporating gravitational force into the differential equation. I will edit my original post to address this change. Regarding the parabolic reference, what I meant is: what if the rocket needs to turn slightly? How do we model the rocket's turning? Or is it ideal for it to travel in a straight line? |
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Dec 30 |
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Dynamics of a Rocket Ah, then T must be a function of atmospheric pressure (i.e. a dependent on distance from the Earth then). But rate of fuel consumption will still be constant, right? This is in response to hwlau's saying that T should not be constant -- don't know where that comment went. |
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Dec 30 |
asked | Dynamics of a Rocket |
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Dec 30 |
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice @hwlau I'm unsure how to employ the semiclassical approximation to model the dynamics of this system. Do you have any suggestions or any literature you could point me towards? Thanks. |
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Dec 24 |
awarded | Editor |
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Dec 24 |
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice At the end of the day, I would like to numerically time-step through some differential equation. The question is which differential equation do I solve! |
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Dec 24 |
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Dec 24 |
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice I am more interested in the physical techniques that can be used to simplify the problem and hence, make it computationally viable. As we know, quantum mechanical simulations on classical computers are often intractable as the computational steps required increase exponentially with the degrees of freedom in the system. |
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Dec 24 |
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Dec 24 |
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