On the stability of the FDTD method for solving a time-dependent Schrödinger equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1140-1154

  Dai, Weizhong ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Nassar, Raja ^a   Su, Shengjun ^a  

^a Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain; Stability; Time dependent Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844570513     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20082     Document Type: Article

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