Absorbing boundary conditions for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with an exterior repulsive potential

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 312-335

  Antoine, Xavier ^a   Besse, Christophe ^b   Klein, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ HENRI POINCARÉ NANCY 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial boundary condition; Exterior potential; Numerical simulations; Schr dinger equation; Unconditionally stable discretization schemes

Indexed keywords

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; EXTERIOR POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS; SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE DISCRETIZATION SCHEME;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 56749091936     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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