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Analysis and control of electron dynamics: An ab-initio perspective on the femto-second time scale
Prof. Eberhard Gross
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Monday 28 September 2015
This lecture is about the motion of electrons, how it can be monitored, analyzed and, ultimately, controlled with external fields on the femto-second time scale. The investigations are performed with ab-initio simulations, using time-dependent density functional theory as theoretical tool. We shall visualize the laser-induced formation and breaking of chemical bonds in real time, and we shall adress questions like:
Do we really need Quantum Computers to simulate Quantum Chemistry?
Prof. Ali Alavi
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Wednesday 22 Avril 2015
The accurate calculation of the ground state of many-electron systems has been the central goal of quantum chemistry for the last 80 years. Exact methods, such as full CI, can only be applied to systems of a few electrons and it has long been assumed that larger fermionic systems will only be simulated exactly on powerful “quantum computers”.