Abstract
We discuss several semiclassical Gaussian wave packet approaches with emphasis on one that is not very well-known, that is, the off-center guiding approach. Off-center guiding of (thawed) Gaussian wave packets uses the same information as other Gaussian propagation schemes, that is, the full van Vleck determinant and multiple trajectories. It retains the well-known caustic smoothing property of Gaussians. The off-center guiding of Gaussians can handle hard chaos and other highly nonlinear situations, where the van Vleck propagator, for example, has over 30,000 separate branches.
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