Efficient numerical method for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with high-contrast potentials
Abstract
In this paper, we study the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in the semiclassical regime and with multiscale potential function. We develop the so-called constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM), in the framework of Crank-Nicolson (CN) discretization in time. The localized multiscale basis functions are constructed by addressing the spectral problem and a constrained energy minimization problem related to the Hamiltonian norm. A first-order convergence in the energy norm and second-order convergence in the norm for our numerical scheme are shown, with a relation between oversampling number in the CEM-GMsFEM method, spatial mesh size and the semiclassical parameter provided. Furthermore, we demonstrate the convergence of the proposed Crank-Nicolson CEM-GMsFEM scheme. The convergence requires , if ; while if , the convergence requires , (where represents the maximum diameter of coarse elements, is the minimal eigenvalue associated with the eigenvector not included in the auxiliary space, is the time step, is the Planck constant and describes the multiscale structure of the potential).Several numerical examples including 1D and 2D in space, with high-contrast potential are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our proposed scheme.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.06158,
title = {Efficient numerical method for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with high-contrast potentials},
author = {Xingguang Jin and Liu Liu and Xiang Zhong and Eric T. Chung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06158},
year = {2025}
}