Is the Filinov integral conditioning technique useful in semiclassical initial value representation methods?
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7 (Canada)
The utility of the Filinov integral conditioning technique, as implemented in semiclassical initial value representation (SC-IVR) methods, is analyzed for a number of regular and chaotic systems. For nonchaotic systems of low dimensionality, the Filinov technique is found to be quite ineffective at accelerating convergence of semiclassical calculations since, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the semiclassical integrands usually do not exhibit significant phase oscillations in regions of large integrand amplitude. In the case of chaotic dynamics, it is found that the regular component is accurately represented by the SC-IVR, even when using the Filinov integral conditioning technique, but that quantum manifestations of chaotic behavior was easily overdamped by the filtering technique. Finally, it is shown that the level of approximation introduced by the Filinov filter is, in general, comparable to the simpler ad hoc truncation procedure introduced by Kay [J. Chem. Phys. 101, 2250 (1994)].
- OSTI ID:
- 20662305
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 122, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1854634; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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