No need for a grid: Adaptive fully-flexible gaussians for the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation

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Linear combinations of complex gaussian functions, where the linear and nonlinear parameters are allowed to vary, are shown to provide an extremely flexible and effective approach for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in one spatial dimension.

• The use of flexible basis sets has been proven notoriously hard within the systematics of the Dirac--Frenkel variational principle.
• In this work we present an alternative time-propagation scheme that de-emphasizes optimal parameter evolution but directly targets residual minimization via the method of Rothe's method, also called the method of vertical time layers.
• We test the scheme using a simple model system mimicking an atom subjected to an extreme laser pulse.