Instability analysis of the Split-step Fourier method on the background of a soliton of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1002/NUM.20649zbMATH Open1242.65208arXiv1008.4974OpenAlexW2964147722WikidataQ115398325 ScholiaQ115398325MaRDI QIDQ2885166FDOQ2885166

T. I. Lakoba

Publication date: 21 May 2012

Published in: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze a numerical instability that occurs in the well-known split-step Fourier method on the background of a soliton. This instability is found to be very sensitive to small changes of the parameters of both the numerical grid and the soliton, unlike the instability of most finite-difference schemes. % on the background of a monochromatic wave, considered earlier in the literature. Moreover, the principle of ``frozen coefficients", in which variable coefficients are treated as ``locally constant" for the purpose of stability analysis, is strongly violated for the instability of the split-step method on the soliton background. Our analysis explains all these features. It is enabled by the fact that the period of oscillations of the unstable Fourier modes is much smaller than the width of the soliton.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4974

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitysolitary wavessolitonnumerical instabilityfinite-difference schemesnonlinear evolution equationsSplit-step Fourier methodnonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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