A level set method for the semiclassical limit of the Schrödinger equation with discontinuous potentials

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7440-7455

  Wei, Dongming ^a   Jin, Shi ^a   Tsai, Richard ^b   Yang, Xu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface; Level set; Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

DELTA FUNCTIONS; DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DIRAC DELTA FUNCTION; DISCONTINUOUS POTENTIALS; FINITE SUMS; INTERFACE CONDITIONS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHOD; LIOUVILLE'S EQUATION; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT;

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 77955272630     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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