A time-splitting spectral scheme for the Maxwell-Dirac system

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 761-789

  Huang, Zhongyi ^a   Jin, Shi ^a,b   Markowich, Peter A ^c   Sparber, Christof ^c   Zheng, Chunxiong ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Maxwell Dirac system; Non relativistic limit; Schr dinger Poisson system; Semi classical asymptotics; Time splitting spectral method; WKB expansion

Indexed keywords

POSITRONS;

ASYMPTOTICS; MAXWELL-DIRAC SYSTEM; NON-RELATIVISTIC LIMIT; NON-RELATIVISTIC REGIMES; POISSON SYSTEM; RELATIVISTICS; SCHRÖDINGE-POISSON SYSTEM; SEMI-CLASSICAL ASYMPTOTIC; TIME-SPLITTING SPECTRAL METHOD; WKB EXPANSIONS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 19744363102     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.026     Document Type: Article

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