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The Comment of Brown and Carrington Jr. (BC) has two main points: 1) that the contraction idea of Shimshovitz and Tannor (ST) can be used for any DVR basis, not necessarily periodic, and 2) that the biorthogonal basis introduced by ST is unnecessary. We fully agree with the first point and in fact have several works that were in press at the time of the Comment that illustrate this. On the second point we show that BC implicitly use the biorthogonal basis of ST.

We propose a new formalism for signal compression based on the Gabor basis set. By convolving the conventional Gabor functions with Dirichlet functions we obtain a periodic version of the Gabor basis set (pg). The pg basis is exact for functions that are band-limited with finite support, bypassing the Balian-Low theorem. The calculation of the pg coefficients is trivial and numerically stable, but the representation does not allow compression. However, by exchanging the pg basis with its biorthogonal basis and using the localized pg basis to calculate the coefficients, large compression factors are achieved. We illustrate the method on three examples: a rectangular pulse, an audio signal and a benchmark example from image processing., Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures

We propose a phase space method to propagate a quantum wavepacket driven by a strong external field. The method employs the so-called biorthogonal von Neumann basis recently introduced for the calculation of the energy eigenstates of time-independent quantum systems [A. Shimshovitz and D.J. Tannor, arXiv:1201.2299v1]. While the individual elements in this basis set are time-independent, a small subset is chosen in a time-dependent manner to adapt to the evolution of the wavepacket in phase space. We demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the present propagation method by calculating the electronic wavepacket in a one-dimensional soft-core atom interacting with a superposition of an intense, few-cycle, near-infrared laser pulse and an attosecond extreme-ultraviolet laser pulse., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. The following article has been submitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at http://jcp.aip.org/

We propose a method for solving the time independent Schr\"odinger equation based on the von Neumann (vN) lattice of phase space Gaussians. By incorporating periodic boundary conditions into the vN lattice [F. Dimler et al., New J. Phys. 11, 105052 (2009)] we solve a longstanding problem of convergence of the vN method. This opens the door to tailoring quantum calculations to the underlying classical phase space structure while retaining the accuracy of the Fourier grid basis. The method has the potential to provide enormous numerical savings as the dimensionality increases. In the classical limit the method reaches the remarkable efficiency of 1 basis function per 1 eigenstate. We illustrate the method for a challenging two-dimensional potential where the FGH method breaks down., Comment: 5 figures. Includes supplementary material. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1010.2588

We propose a new method for solving quantum mechanical problems, which combines the flexibility of Gaussian basis set methods with the numerical accuracy of the Fourier method. The method is based on the incorporation of periodic boundary conditions into the von Neumann basis of phase space Gaussians [F. Dimler et al., New J. Phys. 11, 105052 (2009)]. In this paper we focus on the Time-independent Schr\"odinger Equation and show results for the harmonic, Morse and Coulomb potentials that demonstrate that the periodic von Neumann method or pvN is significantly more accurate than the usual vN method. Formally, we are able to show an exact equivalence between the pvN and the Fourier Grid Hamiltonian (FGH) methods. Moreover, due to the locality of the pvN functions we are able to remove Gaussian basis functions without loss of accuracy, and obtain significantly better efficiency than that of the FGH. We show that in the classical limit the method has the remarkable efficiency of 1 basis function per 1 eigenstate., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures