Fast Gaussian wavepacket transforms and Gaussian beams for the Schrödinger equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7848-7873

  Qian, Jianliang ^a   Ying, Lexing ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast Gaussian wavepacket transforms; Gaussian beams; Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; WAVE PACKETS;

BEAM METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES; FAST GAUSSIAN WAVEPACKET TRANSFORM; GAUSSIAN WAVEPACKETS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ONE DIMENSION; SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME PROPAGATION; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 77955512346     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.043     Document Type: Article

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