Numerical study of the logarithmic Schrodinger equation with repulsive harmonic potential

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2022206MaRDI QIDQ6391582arXivFDO

Publication date 19 February 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/DCDSB.2022206

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Soliton solutions (35C08) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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Abstract: We consider the Schrodinger equation with a logarithmic nonlinearity and a repulsive harmonic potential. Depending on the parameters of the equation, the solution may or may not be dispersive. When dispersion occurs, it does with an exponential rate in time. To control this, we change the unknown function through a generalized lens transform. This approach neutralizes the possible boundary effects, and could be used in the case of the Schrodinger equation without potential. We then employ standard splitting methods on the new equation via a nonuniform grid, after the logarithmic nonlinearity has been regularized. We also discuss the case of a power nonlinearity and give some results concerning the error estimates of the first-order Lie-Trotter splitting method for both cases of nonlinearities. Finally extensive numerical experiments are reported to investigate the dynamics of the equations.

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