Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2010-05-25
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
27 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. The coefficients of methods in table 1 can be found at http://www.gicas.uji.es/Research/splittin
Scientific paper
A typical procedure to integrate numerically the time dependent Schr\"o\-din\-ger equation involves two stages. In the first one carries out a space discretization of the continuous problem. This results in the linear system of differential equations $i du/dt = H u$, where $H$ is a real symmetric matrix, whose solution with initial value $u(0) = u_0 \in \mathbb{C}^N$ is given by $u(t) = \e^{-i t H} u_0$. Usually, this exponential matrix is expensive to evaluate, so that time stepping methods to construct approximations to $u$ from time $t_n$ to $t_{n+1}$ are considered in the second phase of the procedure. Among them, schemes involving multiplications of the matrix $H$ with vectors, such as Lanczos and Chebyshev methods, are particularly efficient. In this work we consider a particular class of splitting methods which also involves only products $Hu$. We carry out an error analysis of these integrators and propose a strategy which allows us to construct different splitting symplectic methods of different order (even of order zero) possessing a large stability interval that can be adapted to different space regularity conditions and different accuracy ranges of the spatial discretization. The validity of the procedure and the performance of the resulting schemes are illustrated on several numerical examples.
Blanes Sergio
Casas Fernando
Murua Ander
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