Special unitary particle pusher for extreme fields

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2020.107628MaRDI QIDQ6041041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 25 May 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10146

zbMATH Keywords

particle-in-cellultrarelativisticpusher

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

Abstract: An exact momentum update useful for particle codes was previously given. The expressions involved were unwieldy. By treating the momentum as a representation of SU(2)xSU(2) instead of SO(3,1), a more compact expression for the exact momentum update is obtained. An expansion in powers of the timestep can be formulated such that invariance properties are exactly preserved, and push rates comparable to the standard Boris pusher are obtained.

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