Explicit and structure-preserving exponential wave integrator Fourier pseudo-spectral methods for the Dirac equation in the simultaneously massless and nonrelativistic regime (Q6183344)

The author propose and analyze two explicit and structure-preserving exponential wave integrator Fourier pseudo-spectral methods for the Dirac equation in the simultaneously massless and nonrelativistic regime. These methods are time symmetric, stable under the condition \(\tau \preceq 1\) and preserve modified energy and modified mass in the discrete level. The greatest advantage of the new methods is that while preserving the structure, they are explicit and greatly reduce the computational cost compared to the traditional structure-preserving methods which are usually implicit. The error bounds are proved throughout rigorous analysis. Those bounds indicate the meshing strategies which provides better temporal and spatial resolution capacity compare to the finite difference methods. Numerical results presented in the paper confirm theoretical findings.