Week 1

Topics to be covered

  1. Basic notations for quantum mechanics models
  2. Unitary operator for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
  3. Taylor expansion methods and their error bound
  4. From local to global error bounds
  5. Norm-preserving methods: implicit mid-point and Crank-Nicolson schemes
  6. Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff (BCH) Formulae for general operator splitting methods.