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A Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) scheme with Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) is considered for solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and simulate the ionization of an electron initially bound to a one-dimensional…

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A novel symplectic algorithm is proposed to solve the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger (M-S) system for investigating light-matter interaction. Using the fourth-order symplectic integration and fourth-order collocated differences,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Guoda Xie , Zhixiang Huang , Ming Fang , Wei E. I. Sha

We have developed a new fully anisotropic 3D FDTD Maxwell solver for arbitrary electrically and magnetically anisotropic media for piecewise constant electric and magnetic materials that are co-located over the primary computational cells.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 J. Nehls , C. Dineen , J. Liu , C. Poole , M. Brio , J. V. Moloney

We present a higher-order extension of the dual cell method for the time-domain Maxwell equations in three spatial dimensions. The approach builds upon a variational reinterpretation of the Finite Integration Technique on dual meshes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lorenzo Codecasa , Bernard Kapidani , Joachim Schöberl , Markus Wess

The timestep of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method (FDTD) is constrained by the stability limit known as the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition. This limit can make FDTD simulations quite time consuming for structures containing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Xihao Li , Costas D. Sarris , Piero Triverio

We report a new computational model for simulations of electromagnetic interactions with semiconductor quantum well(s) (SQW) in complex electromagnetic geometries using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The presented model is…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Koustuban Ravi , Qian Wang , Seng-Tiong Ho

Time domain simulations of electromagnetic problems are highly valuable in engineering applications, as they allow for the analysis of transient behavior and broadband responses. These simulations utilize time stepping schemes, where each…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Ruth Medeiros , Valentin de la Rubia

This paper proposes an efficient FDTD technique for determining electromagnetic fields interacting with a finite-sized 2D and 3D periodic structures. The technique combines periodic boundary conditions---modelling fields away from the edges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aaron J. Kogon , Costas D. Sarris

The increasing complexity and scale of photonic and electromagnetic devices demand efficient and accurate numerical solvers. In this work, we develop a parallel overlapping domain decomposition method (DDM) based on the finite-difference…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhanwen Wang , Chengnian Huang , Wangtao Lu , Yuntian Chen , Wei E. I. Sha

We present a proof of concept for solving a 1+1D complex-valued, delay partial differential equation (PDE) that emerges in the study of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) by adapting the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Yao-Lung L. Fang

We present a finite-element time-domain (FETD) Maxwell solver for the analysis of body-of-revolution (BOR) geometries based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC) of differential forms and transformation optics (TO) concepts. We explore TO…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Dong-Yeop Na , Ben-Hur V. Borges , Fernando L. Teixeira

The Discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method is well suited for adaptive algorithms to solve the time-domain Maxwell's equations and depends on robust and economically computable drivers. Adaptive algorithms utilize local indicators to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Apurva Tiwari , Avijit Chatterjee

A new domain decomposition method for Maxwell's equations in conductive media is presented. Using this method reconstruction algorithms are developed for determination of dielectric permittivity function using time-dependent scattered data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Larisa Beilina , Eric Lindström

We developed fast direct solver for 3D Helmholtz and Maxwell equations in layered medium. The algorithm is based on the ideas of cyclic reduction for separable matrices. For the grids with major uniform part (within the survey domain in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Vladimir Druskin , Mikhail Zaslavsky

The computational efficiency of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method can be significantly reduced by the presence of complex objects with fine features. Small geometrical details impose a fine mesh and a reduced time step,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xinyue Zhang , Fadime Bekmambetova , Piero Triverio

One of the most popular methods employed in computational electromagnetics is the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. We generalise it to a meshless setting using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

We proposed a provably stable FDTD subgridding method for accurate and efficient transient electromagnetic analysis. In the proposed method, several field components are properly added to the boundaries of Yee's grid to make sure that the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yu Cheng , Yuhui Wang , Hanhong Liu , Lilin Li , Xiang-Hua Wang , Shunchuan Yang , Zhizhang , Chen

Maxwell equations describe the propagation of electromagnetic waves and are therefore fundamental to understanding many problems encountered in the study of antennas and electromagnetics. The aim of this paper is to propose and analyse an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Bin Wang , Yaolin Jiang

We propose a finite-difference algorithm for solving the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equation coupled to the appropriate Maxwell equation. The time derivatives are discretized using a second order semi-implicit scheme which, for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Winiecki , C. S. Adams

We introduce a rigorous and simple method for analyzing metasurfaces, modeled as zero-thickness electromagnetic sheets, in Finite Difference (FD) techniques. The method consists in describing the spatial discontinuity induced by the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Yousef Vahabzadeh , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz