Propagator¶

About the `Propagator` class¶

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Inheritance diagram of Propagator

class WaveBlocks.Propagator¶

Propagators can numerically simulate the time evolution of quantum states as described by the time-dependent Schroedinger equation.

get_number_components()¶

Raises NotImplementedError:
Returns:	The number of components of $\|\Psi\rangle$ .
	This is an abstract base class.

get_potential()¶

Raises NotImplementedError:
Returns:	The embedded `MatrixPotential` instance.
	This is an abstract base class.

propagate()¶

Given the wavefunction $\Psi$ at time $t$ , calculate the new $\Psi$ at time $t + \tau$ . We do exactly one timestep $\tau$ here.

Raises NotImplementedError:
	This is an abstract base class.