Optimizing Schrödinger Functionals Using Sobolev Gradients: Applications to Quantum Mechanics and Nonlinear Optics

DOI10.1137/S1064827500377721zbMath0999.65058arXivmath/0008225OpenAlexW3102111330WikidataQ62599139 ScholiaQ62599139MaRDI QIDQ2780580

Víctor M. Pérez-García, Juan J. García-Ripoll

Publication date: 15 April 2002

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008225

zbMATH Keywords

convergencefast Fourier transformnonlinear opticsquantum mechanicsnonlinear Schrödinger equationsground statesSobolev gradientsdiscrete Fourier basisSobolev preconditioning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Newton-type methods (49M15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Optimization problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M50) Electron optics (78A15)

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