An efficient and stable numerical method for the Maxwell-Dirac system

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 663-687

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Li, Xiang Gui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Maxwell Dirac system; Plane wave; Semiclassical; Time reversible; Time splitting spectral method; Unconditionally stable

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

KEYPOINTS; MAXWELL-DIRAC SYSTEM; PLANE WAVE; PLANE WAVE SOLUTIONS; SEMICLASSICAL; TIME REVERSIBLE; TIME SPLITTING; TIME-SPLITTING SPECTRAL METHOD; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 4544386352     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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