MCTDH-X: The multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method for indistinguishable particles software

We introduce and describe the multiconfigurational time-depenent Hartree for indistinguishable particles (MCTDH-X) software, which is hosted, documented, and distributed at . This powerful tool allows the investigation of ground state properties and dynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems in different spatial dimensions. The MCTDH-X software is a set of programs and scripts to compute, analyze, and visualize solutions for the time-dependent and time-independent many-body Schrodinger equation for indistinguishable quantum particles. As the MCTDH-X software represents a general solver for the Schrodinger equation, it is applicable to a wide range of problems in the fields of atomic, optical, molecular physics, and condensed matter systems. In particular, it can be used to study light-matter interactions, correlated dynamics of electrons in the solid state as well as some aspects related to quantum information and computing. The MCTDH-X software solves a set of nonlinear coupled working equations based on the application of the time-dependent variational principle to the Schrodinger equation. These equations are obtained by using an ansatz for the many-body wavefunction that is a expansion in a set of time-dependent, fully symmetrized bosonic (X = B) or fully anti-symmetrized fermionic (X = F) many-body basis states. It is the time-dependence of the basis set that enables MCTDH-X to deal with quantum dynamics at a superior accuracy as compared to, for instance, exact diagonalization approaches with a static basis, where the number of basis states necessary to capture the dynamics of the wavefunction typically grows rapidly with time. Herein, we give an introduction to the MCTDH-X software via an easy-to-follow tutorial with a focus on accessibility. The illustrated exemplary problems are hosted at and consider the physics of a few interacting bosons or fermions in a double-well potential. We explore computationally the position-space and momentum-space density, the one-body reduced density matrix, Glauber correlation functions, phases, (dynamical) phase transitions, and the imaging of the quantum systems in single-shot images. Although a few particles in a double well potential represent a minimal model system, we are able to demonstrate a rich variety of phenomena with it. We use the double well to illustrate the fermionization of bosonic particles, the crystallization of fermionic particles, characteristics of the superfluid and Mott-insulator quantum phases in Hubbard models, and even dynamical phase transitions. We provide a complete set of input files and scripts to redo all computations in this paper at , accompanied by tutorial videos at . Our tutorial should guide the potential users to apply the MCTDH-X software also to more complex systems.