Wednesday, April 18, 2012

1204.3766 (Hillel Tal-Ezer et al.)

New, Highly Accurate Propagator for the Linear and Nonlinear
Schrödinger Equation
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Hillel Tal-Ezer, Ronnie Kosloff, Ido Schaefer
A propagation method for the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation was studied leading to a general scheme of solving ode type equations. Standard space discretization of time-dependent pde's usually results in system of ode's of the form u_t -Gu = s where G is a operator (matrix) and u is a time-dependent solution vector. Highly accurate methods, based on polynomial approximation of a modified exponential evolution operator, had been developed already for this type of problems where G is a linear, time independent matrix and s is a constant vector. In this paper we will describe a new algorithm for the more general case where s is a time-dependent r.h.s vector. An iterative version of the new algorithm can be applied to the general case where G depends on t or u. Numerical results for Schr\"odinger equation with time-dependent potential and to non-linear Schr\"odinger equation will be presented.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3766

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