Reference.Variables.time

Variable "time" in MATLAB version of WavePacket

This global, structured(!) variable contains all information about temporal discretization (TDSE or LvNE or CLE or QCLE), external fields, initial states etc., for time-dependent calculations using qm_propa and/or qm_control and/or qm_optimal. All of these settings are ignored when you run a time-independent calculation using qm_bound.

Field name	Matlab type	description
time.dof	Cell vector of objects of classes from +init	Setting up initial wavefunction as product ¹
time.corr	Object of class from +init	Setting up initial wavefunction (fully correlated) ¹
time.propa	Object of class from +tmp	Choice of propagators (constant step size)
time.steps	Object of class +tmp/steps	Main time steps and sub-steps
time.efield	Object of class +tmp/efield	External electric field, interacting with dipoles and/or polarizabilities
time.hop	Object of class +hop	Main time steps and sub-steps
time.frog	Structure	Power spectral density and frequency resolved optical gating (for qm_optimal only)

¹ There are two different ways of setting up an initial wave function, either as a direct product of one-dimensional functions or as a correlated N-dimensional function. For using these two options, see above for the fields time.dof or time.corr, respectively. Specify only one of them, never both!

time.frog	Choice and settings for power spectral density and frequency resolved optical gating (FROG), only available for qm_optimal	default
choice	'PG': polarization gate 'SHG': second harmonic generation 'Gauss': cross-correlate with Gaussian bell 'none': no FROG is calculated	'none'
width	Width σ of Gaussian bell	time.main.delta
zoom	zoom factor for frequency axes of PSD and/or FROG plots	1