On Magnus integrators for time-dependent Schrödinger equations

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 945-963

  Hochbruck, Marlis ^a   Lubich, Christian ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commutator bounds; Error bounds; Magnus integrators; Time dependent Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

COMMUTATOR BOUNDS; ERROR BOUNDS; MAGNUS INTEGRATORS; TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 2942576160     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142902403875     Document Type: Article

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