An alternating direction implicit finite element Galerkin method for the linear Schrödinger equation

Morrakot Khebchareon, Amiya K. Pani, Graeme Fairweather, Ryan I. Fernandes

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    Abstract

    We formulate and analyze a fully discrete approximate solution of the linear Schrödinger equation on the unit square written as a Schrödinger-type system. The finite element Galerkin method is used for the spatial discretization, and the time stepping is done with an alternating direction implicit extrapolated Crank-Nicolson method. We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of the approximation, and prove that the scheme is of optimal accuracy in the L2, H1 and L norms in space and second-order accurate in time. Numerical results are presented which support the theory.

    Original languageBritish English
    JournalNumerical Algorithms
    DOIs
    StateAccepted/In press - 2024

    Keywords

    • Alternating direction implicit method
    • Extrapolated Crank-Nicolson method
    • Finite element Galerkin method
    • Linear Schrödinger equation
    • Numerical experiments
    • Optimal-order convergence
    • Schrödinger-type systems

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