Staggered grid leap-frog scheme for the (2+1)D Dirac equation

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2013.08.013zbMATH Open1344.65080arXiv1306.5895OpenAlexW2070624059MaRDI QIDQ313844FDOQ313844

Authors: René Hammer, Walter Pötz 

Publication date: 12 September 2016

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A numerical scheme utilizing a grid which is staggered in both space and time is proposed for the numerical solution of the (2+1)D Dirac equation in presence of an external electromagnetic potential. It preserves the linear dispersion relation of the free Weyl equation for wave vectors aligned with the grid and facilitates the implementation of open (absorbing) boundary conditions via an imaginary potential term. This explicit scheme has second order accuracy in space and time. A functional for the norm is derived and shown to be conserved. Stability conditions are derived. Several numerical examples, ranging from generic to specific to textured topological insulator surfaces, demonstrate the properties of the scheme which can handle general electromagnetic potential landscapes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5895

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zbMATH Keywords

finite differenceabsorbing boundary conditionsDirac equationtopological insulatorstaggered grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06)

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