A stability analysis of a real space split operator method for the Klein-Gordon equation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.09.012MaRDI QIDQ418972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frederick Blumenthal, Heiko Bauke

Publication date 30 May 2012

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3660

zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationstability analysisKlein-Gordon equationsplit operator method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

Abstract: We carry out a stability analysis for the real space split operator method for the propagation of the time-dependent Klein-Gordon equation that has been proposed Ruf et al. [M. Ruf, H. Bauke, C.H. Keitel, A real space split operator method for the Klein-Gordon equation, Journal of Computational Physics 228 (24) (2009) 9092-9106, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2009.09.012]. The region of algebraic stability is determined analytically by means of a von-Neumann stability analysis for systems with homogeneous scalar and vector potentials. Algebraic stability implies convergence ofthe real space split operator method for smooth absolutely integrable initial conditions. In the limit of small spatial grid spacings $h$ in each of the $d$ spatial dimensions and small temporal steps $au$, the stability condition becomes $h/au>sqrtdc$ for second order finite differences and $sqrt3h/(2au)>sqrtdc$ for fourth order finite differences, respectively, with $c$ denoting the speed of light. Furthermore, we demonstrate numerically that the stability region for systems with inhomogeneous potentials coincides almost with the region of algebraic stability for homogeneous potentials.

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