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arXiv:1805.03155 (physics)
[Submitted on 8 May 2018]

Title:Symplectic Pseudospectral Time-Domain Scheme for Solving Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation

Authors:Jing Shen, Wei E. I. Sha, Xiaojing Kuang, Jinhua Hu, Zhixiang Huang, Xianliang Wu
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Abstract:A symplectic pseudospectral time-domain (SPSTD) scheme is developed to solve Schrodinger equation. Instead of spatial finite differences in conventional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, the fast Fourier transform is used to calculate the spatial derivatives. In time domain, the scheme adopts high-order symplectic integrators to simulate time evolution of Schrodinger equation. A detailed numerical study on the eigenvalue problems of 1D quantum well and 3D harmonic oscillator is carried out. The simulation results strongly confirm the advantages of the SPSTD scheme over the traditional PSTD method and FDTD approach. Furthermore, by comparing to the traditional PSTD method and the non-symplectic Runge-Kutta (RK) method, the explicit SPSTD scheme which is an infinite order of accuracy in space domain and energy-conserving in time domain, is well suited for a long-term simulation.
Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures
Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
Cite as: arXiv:1805.03155 [physics.comp-ph]
  (or arXiv:1805.03155v1 [physics.comp-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1805.03155
Journal reference: Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 66, 109-118, 2018
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERM18010808

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From: Wei E.I. Sha [view email]
[v1] Tue, 8 May 2018 16:45:03 UTC (368 KB)
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