Wavepacket revivals via complex trajectory propagation

Abstract

Complex-valued semiclassical methods hold out the promise of treating classically allowed and classically forbidden processes on the same footing. In addition, they provide a natural way to describe optical excitation with complex fields within the trajectory framework. Despite their promise, these methods have until now been limited to short time propagation, due to the numerical difficulties introduced by the complexification. Using a new Final Value Representation of the Coherent State Propagator (FINCO), combined with an analysis of the complex classical phase space, we achieve accurate wavepacket propagation all the way to the revival time of a strongly anharmonic system.