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The solution of differential problems, and in particular of quantum wave equations, can in general be performed both in the direct and in the reciprocal space. However, to achieve the same accuracy, direct-space finite-difference approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Paolo Marconcini , Demetrio Logoteta , Massimo Macucci

This paper presents a new finite difference algorithm for solving the 2D one-way wave equation with a preliminary approximation of a pseudo-differential operator by a system of partial differential equations. As opposed to the existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Andrew V. Terekhov

We study the problem of a Dirac field in the background of an Aharonov-Bohm flux string. We exclude the origin by imposing spectral boundary conditions at a finite radius then shrinked to zero. Thus, we obtain a behaviour of eigenfunctions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. G. Beneventano , M. De Francia , E. M. Santangelo

The purpose of this work is to study a finite element method for finding solutions to the eigenvalue problem for the fractional Laplacian. We prove that the discrete eigenvalue problem converges to the continuous one and we show the order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Leandro M. Del Pezzo , Sandra Martínez

We present a systematic approach for the separation of variables for the two-dimensional Dirac equation in polar coordinates. The three vector potential, which couple to the Dirac spinor via minimal coupling, along with the scalar potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , Ahmed Jellal , Youness Zahidi

A finite difference method (FDM) applicable to a two dimensional (2D) quantum dot was developed as a non-conventional approach to the theoretical understandings of quantum devices. This method can be applied to a realistic potential with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Jai Seok Ahn

The numerical analysis for the small amplitude motion of an elastic beam with internal damping is investigated in domain with moving ends. An efficient numerical method is constructed to solve this moving boundary problem. The stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Natanael Quintino , Mauro Rincon

Within an effective Dirac-Weyl theory we solve the scattering problem for massless chiral fermions impinging on a cylindrical time-dependent potential barrier. The set-up we consider can be used to model the electron propagation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Schulz , R. L. Heinisch , H. Fehske

Finite difference method was extended to unstructured meshes to solve Euler equations. The spatial discretization is made of two steps. First, numerical fluxes are computed at the middle point of each edge with high order accuracy. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Meiyuan Zhen , Kun Qu , Jinsheng Cai

In this paper, we study the Dirac equation for an electron constrained to move on a catenoid surface. We decoupled the two components of the spinor and obtained two Klein-Gordon-like equations. Analytical solutions were obtained using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ö. Yeşiltaş , J. Furtado , J. E. G. Silva

In this work, the Dirac-type integro di{\S}erential system with one classical boundary condition and another nonlocal integral boundary condition is considered. We obtain the asymptotic formulae for the solutions, eigenvalues and nodal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Baki Keskin

In this work, a fully implicit numerical approach based on space-time finite element method is presented to solve the Dirac equation in 1 (space) + 1 (time), 2 + 1, and 3 + 1 dimensions. We utilize PETSc/Tao library to implement our linear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Rylee Sundermann , Hyun Lim , Jace Waybright , Jung-Han Kimn

A first-order relativistic wave equation is constructed in five dimensions. Its solutions are eight-component spinors, which are interpreted as single-particle fermion wave functions in four-dimensional spacetime. Use of a ``cylinder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Redington , M. A. K. Lodhi

We present a numerical approach to efficiently calculate spin-wave dispersions and spatial mode profiles in magnetic waveguides of arbitrarily shaped cross section with any non-collinear equilibrium magnetization which is translationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Gwendolyn Quasebarth , Andreas Otto , Attila Kákay

We introduce \texttt{featom}, an open source code that implements a high-order finite element solver for the radial Schr\"odinger, Dirac, and Kohn-Sham equations. The formulation accommodates various mesh types, such as uniform or…

We use high order finite difference methods to solve the wave equation in the second order form. The spatial discretization is performed by finite difference operators satisfying a summation-by-parts property. The focus of this work is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Siyang Wang , Kristoffer Virta , Gunilla Kreiss

A relativistic equation is deduced for the bound state of two particles, by assuming a proper boundary condition for the propagation of the negative-energy states. It reduces to the (one-body)Dirac equation in the infinite limit of one of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Hitoshi Ito

In this work we will treat the spurious eigenvalues obstacle that appears in the computation of the radial Dirac eigenvalue problem using numerical methods. The treatment of the spurious solution is based on applying Petrov-Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Hasan Almanasreh

An efficient quantum algorithm for the many-body three-dimensional Dirac equation is presented. Its computational complexity is dominantly linear in the number of qubits used to spatially resolve the 4-spinor wave function.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey Yepez

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann