The three-dimensional Fourier grid Hamiltonian method

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1997.5866MaRDI QIDQ1384510zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabian Brau, Claude Semay

Publication date 27 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9711019, https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/232868/3/1998_Fourier_Grid.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

bound state eigenvalueschannel equationseigenfunctionsFourier Hamiltonian methodSchrödinger equationspinless Salpeter equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: A method to compute the bound state eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a Schr"{o}dinger equation or a spinless Salpeter equation with central interaction is presented. This method is the generalization to the three-dimensional case of the Fourier grid Hamiltonian method for one-dimensional Schr"{o}dinger equation. It requires only the evaluation of the potential at equally spaced grid points and yields the radial part of the eigenfunctions at the same grid points. It can be easily extended to the case of coupled channel equations and to the case of non-local interactions.

Review text

A method to compute the bound state eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a Schrödinger equation or a spinless Salpeter equation with central interaction is presented. It is the generalization to the three-dimensional case of the Fourier Hamiltonian method for a one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. It requires only the evaluation of the potential at equally spaced grid points. It can be easily extended to the case of coupled channel equations and to the case of nonlocal interaction.

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