Setting and analysis of the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations (Q717174)

From the author's abstract: We find an exposition of the mathematical analysis of the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation which is used in quantum physics for the dynamics of few electron problems. This model is a natural generalization of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation, yielding a hierarchy of a model that should converge to the exact model. In fact, these Hartree-Fock equations for molecular systems with pairwise interaction are a set of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations and are an approximation of the \(n\)-particle time-dependent Schrödinger equation based on time-dependent linear combinations of time-dependent Slater determinants. The authors establish existence and uniqueness of maximal solutions to the Cauchy problem in the energy space as the one-body density matrix is invertible.