2022/11/18 by Sato, Takeshi, Pathak, Himadri, Orimo, Yuki +1
#Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.10116
We review time-dependent multiconfiguration self-consistent-field (TD-MCSCF) method and time-dependent optimized coupled-cluster (TD-OCC) method for first-principles simulations of high-field phenomena such as tunneling ionization and high-order harmonic generation in atoms and molecules irradiated by a strong laser field. These methods provide a flexible and systematically improvable description of the multielectron dynamics by expressing the all-electron wavefunction by configuration interaction expansion or coupled-cluster expansion, using time-dependent one-electron orbital functions. The time-dependent variational principle plays a key role to derive these methods satisfying gauge invariance and Ehrenfest theorem. The real-time/real-space implementation with an absorbing boundary condition enables the simulation of high-field processes involving multiple excitation and ionization. We present a detailed, comprehensive discussion of such features of TD-MCSCF and TD-OCC methods.