A Wigner-Measure Analysis of the Dufort--Frankel Scheme for the Schrödinger Equation

DOI10.1137/S0036142900381734zbMath1029.65098OpenAlexW2056971052MaRDI QIDQ4785816

Paola Pietra, Carsten Pohl, Peter Alexander Markowich, Hans Peter Stimming

Publication date: 5 January 2003

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036142900381734

zbMATH Keywords

comparison of methodsnumerical examplesfinite difference schemeSchrödinger equationsemiclassical limitWigner measureDufort-Frankel difference schemeWigner transform technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) 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) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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