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structure::Exact< RANK > Class Template Referenceabstract

The interface every system that needs transformation between two quantum mechanical pictures must present towards the trajectory drivers. More...

#include <Exact.h>

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Public Types

typedef boost::shared_ptr< const ExactPtr
 
typedef quantumdata::Types< RANK >::StateVectorLow StateVectorLow
 
- Public Types inherited from structure::ExactCommon
typedef boost::shared_ptr< const ExactCommonPtr
 

Public Member Functions

void actWithU (double t, StateVectorLow &psi, double t0) const
 Describes the operation which transforms from interaction picture to the normal picture: $\ket{\Psi(t)}\rightarrow U(t,t_0)\ket{\Psi}$. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from structure::ExactCommon
bool applicableInMaster () const
 Describes whether the system fulfills the requirement to be used in Master-equation evolution. More...
 

Detailed Description

template<int RANK>
class structure::Exact< RANK >

The interface every system that needs transformation between two quantum mechanical pictures must present towards the trajectory drivers.

Experience shows that even when a system uses interaction picture (which is automatically the case if any of its subsystems does) – that is, part of its dynamics is solved exactly – it may still want to calculate the jump operators and quantum averages in the normal picture. (cf. Cases 1 & 3 above.) This is useful e.g. to reuse the code written for the non-interaction-picture case.

In this case, the framework has to be provided with some means to transform between the two pictures. This is fulfilled by this class, from which classes describing such systems have to inherit.

E.g. if quantumtrajectory::MCWF_Trajectory sees that the simulated system inherits from Exact, then it will make the coherent part of the evolution in interaction picture, whereupon it transforms back to normal picture, so that all the rest (jump rates, eventual jumps, quantum averages) can be calculated in this latter picture. This makes that the two pictures coincide before each timestep. (Cf. also the stages described @ quantumtrajectory::MCWF_trajectory.)

Template Parameters
RANKarity of the Hilbert space
IS_TWO_TIMEdefault true, the most general case
See also
The design is very similar to that of Hamiltonian & HamiltonianTimeDependenceDispatched.

Definition at line 57 of file Exact.h.

Member Function Documentation

template<int RANK>
void structure::Exact< RANK >::actWithU ( double  t,
StateVectorLow &  psi,
double  t0 
) const
inline

Describes the operation which transforms from interaction picture to the normal picture: $\ket{\Psi(t)}\rightarrow U(t,t_0)\ket{\Psi}$.

Parameters
[in]t$t$
[in,out]psi$\ket{\Psi}$
[in]t0$t_0$

Definition at line 67 of file Exact.h.


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