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Symplectic pseudospectral time-domain scheme for solving time-dependent schrödinger equation

Shen, J; Sha, WEI; Kuang, X; Hu, J; Huang, Z; Wu, X; (2018) Symplectic pseudospectral time-domain scheme for solving time-dependent schrödinger equation. Progress In Electromagnetics Research M , 66 pp. 109-118. 10.2528/PIERM18010808. Green open access

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Abstract

A symplectic pseudospectral time-domain (SPSTD) scheme is developed to solve Schrödinger equation. Instead of spatial finite differences in conventional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods, fast Fourier transform is used to calculate spatial derivatives. In time domain, the scheme adopts high-order symplectic integrators to simulate time evolution of Schrödinger 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.

Type: Article
Title: Symplectic pseudospectral time-domain scheme for solving time-dependent schrödinger equation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2528/PIERM18010808
Publisher version: http://ceta.mit.edu/pierm/pier.php?paper=18010808
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061820
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