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We have devised a variational sinc collocation method (VSCM) which can be used to obtain accurate numerical solutions to many strong-coupling problems. Sinc functions with an optimal grid spacing are used to solve the linear and non-linear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore

Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

An exactly solvable position-dependent mass Schr\"odinger equation in two dimensions, depicting a particle moving in a semi-infinite layer, is re-examined in the light of recent theories describing superintegrable two-dimensional systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Christiane Quesne

Recently there has been a growing interest in computational methods for quantum scattering equations that avoid the traditional decomposition of wave functions and scattering amplitudes into partial waves.The aim of the present work is to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zeki C. Kuruoglu

We consider the standing wave solutions of the three dimensional semilinear Schrodinger equation with competing potential functions $V$ and $K$ and under the action of an external electromagnetic vector field $A$. We establish some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simone Secchi , Marco Squassina

In this work, we introduce new integral formulations based on the convolution quadrature method for the time-domain modeling of perfectly electrically conducting scatterers that overcome some of the most critical issues of the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Pierrick Cordel , Alexandre Dély , Adrien Merlini , Francesco P. Andriulli

Various explicitly correlated Gaussian (ECG) basis sets are considered for the solution of the molecular Schr\"odinger equation with particular attention to the simplest polyatomic system, H$_3^+$. Shortcomings and advantages are discussed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Andrea Muolo , Edit Mátyus , Markus Reiher

We show that it is possible to obtain numerical solutions to quantum mechanical problems involving a fractional Laplacian, using a collocation approach based on Little Sinc Functions (LSF), which discretizes the Schr\"odinger equation on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Paolo Amore , Francisco M. Fernández , Christoph P. Hofmann , Ricardo A. Sáenz

The spectral element method constructed by the $Q^k$ ($k\geq 2$) continuous finite element method with $(k+1)$-point Gauss-Lobatto quadrature on rectangular meshes is a popular high order scheme for solving wave equations in various…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Hao Li , Daniel Appelö , Xiangxiong Zhang

Electromagnetic scattering on a sphere is one of the most fundamental problems, which has a closed form analytical solution in the form of Mie series. Being initially formulated for a plane incident wave, the formalism can be extended to…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-11 Yuval Kashtera , Eran Falek , Pavel Ginzburg

The most common method for calculating accurate numerical solutions for complicated linear differential equations - for example, finding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Schrodinger equation for many-electron atoms - is the variational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Charles Schwartz

In the framework of extended nonlinear Schrodinger equation (ENSE) the classification of self-similar solutions by the relation between the amplitude and phase is performed. New solutions of ENSE - ``gray soliton'' and ``gray soliton…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Borich , V. V. Smagin , A. P. Tankeyev

Discretizing an analytic function on a uniform real-space grid is often done via a straightforward collocation method. This is ubiquitous in all areas of computational physics and quantum chemistry. An example in Density Functional Theory…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch

A method to find exact solutions to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, defined on a line and on a plane, is found by connecting it with second order linear ordinary differential equation. The connection is essentially made using Riccati…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-11-14 Vivek M. Vyas , Rama Gupta , C. N. Kumar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

In this paper we present the theoretical framework needed to justify the use of a kernel-based collocation method (meshfree approximation method) to estimate the solution of high-dimensional stochastic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Igor Cialenco , Gregory E. Fasshauer , Qi Ye

This work proposes Isogeometric Analysis as an alternative to classical finite elements for simulating electric machines. Through the spline-based Isogeometric discretization it is possible to parametrize the circular arcs exactly, thereby…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Zeger Bontinck , Jacopo Corno , Sebastian Schöps , Herbert De Gersem

A general real-space multigrid algorithm for the self-consistent solution of the Kohn-Sham equations appearing in the state-of-the-art electronic-structure calculations is described. The most important part of the method is the multigrid…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Heiskanen , T. Torsti , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

We represent low dimensional quantum mechanical Hamiltonians by moderately sized finite matrices that reproduce the lowest O(10) boundstate energies and wave functions to machine precision. The method extends also to Hamiltonians that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Johann Foerster , Alejandro Saenz , Ulli Wolff

In the present work, a kind of trigonometric collocation methods based on Lagrange basis polynomials is developed for effectively solving multi-frequency oscillatory second-order differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Bin Wang , Xinyuan Wu , Fanwei Meng