We apply Wigner-transform techniques to the analysis of difference methods for Schrödinger-type equations in the case of a small Planck constant. In this way we are able to obtain sharp conditions on the spatialtemporal grid which guarantee convergence for average values of observables as the Planck constant tends to zero. The theory developed in this paper is not based on local and global error estimates and does not depend on whether caustics develop or not.Numerical test examples are presented to help interpret the theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 65M12
Abstract. We apply Wigner transform techniques to the analysis of the Dufort-Frankel difference scheme for the Schrödinger equation and to the continuous analogue of the scheme in the case of a small (scaled) Planck constant (semiclassical regime). In this way we are able to obtain sharp conditions on the spatial-temporal grid which guarantee convergence for average values of observables as the Planck constant tends to zero. The theory developed in this paper is not based on local and global error estimates and does not depend on whether or not caustics develop. Numerical test examples are presented to help interpret the theory and to compare the Dufort-Frankel scheme to other difference schemes for the Schrödinger equation.
A numerical study of the dispersive limit of the quantum hydrodynamic equations for
semiconductors is presented. The solution may develop high frequency oscillations
when the scaled Planck constant is small. Numerical evidence is given of the fact that in
such cases the solution does not converge to the solution of the formal limit equations.
We apply Wigner-transform techniques to the analysis of difference methods for
Schrödinger-type equations in the case of a small Planck constant. In this way we are
able to obtain sharp conditions on the spatial-temporal grid which guarantee convergence
for average values of observables as the Planck constant tends to zero. The
theory developed in this paper is not based on local and global error estimates and does
not depend on whether caustics develop or not.Numerical examples are presented to help interpret the theory.
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