High accuracy representation of the free propagator

DOI10.1016/J.APNUM.2009.06.007MaRDI QIDQ731960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patrick L. Nash, J. A. C. Weideman

Publication date 9 October 2009

Published in Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnum.2009.06.007

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier pseudospectral methodsfree propagator of quantum mechanicsnonlinear Schrödinger equationsnumerical comparisonsnumerical examplessplit-step method

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) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Review text

A new matrix approximation to the free propagator of quantum mechanics is proposed. It is a variant of the well-known Fourier pseudospectral approximation. Numerical comparisons involving the linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equations are presented.

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• Matlab

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