LANL/CNLS Workshop  
on Quantum Trajectories 
 
Los Alamos, New Mexico 
July 28-30, 2008 


 

 

Program

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday
 
8:40 
               Welcome
 
 

8:50 
Robert E. Wyatt
Overview: Dynamics with Quantum Trajectories
8:30 
Marco Matone
Time and the Quantum Hamilton Jacobi Equation
8:30 
Irene Burghardt
Real and Complex Quantum Trajectories for Mixed States

9:10 
Sheldon Goldstein
Can the Velocity in Bohmian Mechanics be Measured?
9:10 
Ned Floyd
EPR-Bohr and Quantum Trajectories
 
9:10 
Keith Hughes
Moment Closure Scheme for Quantum Hydrodynamics

9:50 
               Coffee Break
9:50 
               Coffee Break
9:50 
               Coffee Break

10:10 
Gary Bowman
Are Decoherent Trajectories Coherent?
 
10:10 
Alon Faraggi
Duality and Equivalence and the Quest for Unification
10:10 
Craig Martens
Quantum Trajectories in Phase Space
 

10:50 
Eli Pollak
The Semiclassical Route to Quantum Dynamics in Real Time
10:50 
Bill Poirier
Bipolar Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics for Multidimensional Systems
10:50 
Eric Bittner
Variational Quantum Hydrodynamics at Finite Temperature

11:30 
Vitaly Rassolov
Computational Complexity of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics:
Implications for the Quantum Potential
11:30 
Gerard Parlant
Bipolar Quantum Trajectory Dynamics
 
 
11:30 
 
Working Lunch
 
 

12:10 
               Lunch Break
12:10 
               Lunch Break
 
                

3:00 
Salvador Miret-Artes
Trajectory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Topology and Singularities
 
3:00 
David Tannor
Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action:
An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories
12:20 
Bradley Rowland
Barrier Scattering with Complex Trajectories
 
 

3:40 
Angel S. Sanz
Superposition and Nonlocality in Bohmian Mechanics
 
3:40 
Robert E. Wyatt
Quantum Dynamics with Unreal Trajectories
 
1:00 
Pratim Chattaraj
A Bohmian Analysis of the Possible
Field Induced KAM-like Transitions in Anharmonic Oscillators

4:20 
               Coffee Break
4:20 
               Coffee Break
 

4:40 
Sophya Garashchuk
Stable Long-Time Semiclassical Description
of Zero-point Energy in High-dimensional Molecular Systems
4:40 
Jeremy Schiff
A Path Integral Approach to BOMCA
 
 
1:40 
Clemens Woywod
The Dynamics of Angular Degrees
of Freedom: New Basis Set and Grid Representations of Hamiltonian Operators

5:20 
Dirk A. Deckert
Quantum Dynamics with Bohmian Trajectories
5:20 

 Break & Banquet
 
2:20 

 Break & Bandelier
 


 
Posters

 
Gennady Berman
Quantum Trajectories in "Action-angle" Representation
Tim Coffey, Robert E. Wyatt, and Wm. C. Schieve
Monte Carlo Generation of Bohmian Trajectories
Chia-Chun Chou and Robert E. Wyatt
Quantum Vortices and Streamlines within the Complex
Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism
Julianne Kuck David and Robert E. Wyatt
Cluster DPM: Introduction and Comparison of Methods
 
Dirk A. Deckert, D. Durr, and P. Pickl
Quantum Dynamics with Bohmian Trajectories
 
 
Toufik Djama and Bill Poirier
The Analytic Solutions of the General Eckart and
Morse Potentials Using the Bipolar Counter
-propagating Wave Decompositions
Brian K. Kendrick
Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics with Trajectories:
Computational Issues
Jeremy Maddox and Bill Poirier
Quantum Trajectory Simulations: Trajectory
Surface Hopping and Path Integeral Monte Carlo
Kisam Park and Bill Poirier
Quantum Trajectory Calculations for Bipolar
Wavepacket Dynamics in One Dimension