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This paper is concerned with orthonormal systems in real intervals, given with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. More specifically, our interest is in systems with a skew-symmetric differentiation matrix (this excludes orthonormal…

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A new type of ensemble Kalman filter is developed, which is based on replacing the sample covariance in the analysis step by its diagonal in a spectral basis. It is proved that this technique improves the aproximation of the covariance when…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-19 Ivan Kasanický , Jan Mandel , Martin Vejmelka

The electronic Schr\"odinger equation describes the motion of N electrons under Coulomb interaction forces in a field of clamped nuclei. The solutions of this equation, the electronic wavefunctions, depend on 3N variables, three spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Stephan Scholz , Harry Yserentant

We consider the expansion of wave packets governed by the free Schr\"odinger equation. This seemingly simple task plays an important role in simulations of various quantum experiments and in particular in the field of matter-wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Jan-Frederik Mennemann , Sebastian Erne , Igor Mazets , Norbert J. Mauser

Hagedorn functions are carefully constructed generalizations of Hermite functions to the setting of many-dimensional squeezed and coupled harmonic systems. Wavepackets formed by superpositions of Hagedorn functions have been successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Jiří J. L. Vaníček , Zhan Tong Zhang

In the paper, we study approximation properties of the Malmquist-Takenaka-Christov (MTC) system. We show that the discrete MTC approximations converge rapidly under mild restrictions on functions asymptotic at infinity. This makes them…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Sergey Shindin , Nabendra Parumasur , Olabisi Aluko

In this work, we apply a semi-Lagrangian spectral method for the Vlasov-Poisson system, previously designed for periodic Fourier discretizations, by implementing Legendre polynomials and Hermite functions in the approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Lorella Fatone , Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bao-Fei Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

The Hermite functions are an orthonormalbasis of the space of square integrable functions with favourable approximation properties. Allowing for a flexible localization in position and momentum, the Hagedorn wavepackets generalize the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Caroline Lasser , Stephanie Troppmann

Although for a number of semilinear stochastic wave equations existence and uniqueness results for corresponding solution processes are known from the literature, these solution processes are typically not explicitly known and numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ladislas Jacobe de Naurois , Arnulf Jentzen , Timo Welti

We study the propagation of wave packets for nonlinear nonlocal Schrodinger equations in the semi-classical limit. When the kernel is smooth, we construct approximate solutions for the wave functions in subcritical, critical and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Pei Cao , Rémi Carles

The Schrodinger equation is a mathematical equation describing the wave function's behavior in a quantum-mechanical system. It is a partial differential equation that provides valuable insights into the fundamental principles of quantum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Kourosh Parand , Aida Pakniyat

We consider the linear time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with a time-dependent smooth potential on an unbounded domain. A Galerkin spectral method with a tensor-product Hermite basis is used as a discretization in space. Discretizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Bernd Brumm

The Fredholm-Hammerstein integral equations (FHIEs) with weakly singular kernels exhibit multi-point singularity at the endpoints or boundaries. The dense discretized matrices result in high computational complexity when employing numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Min Wang , Zhimin Zhang

We introduce and develop a theory of orthogonality with respect to Sobolev inner products on the real line for sequences of functions with a tridiagonal, skew-Hermitian differentiation matrix. While a theory of such L2-orthogonal systems is…

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In this paper, we reformulate the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of electromagnetic field by the Gaussian wave packets transform. With this approach, the highly oscillatory Schr\"odinger equation is equivalently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Zhennan Zhou , Giovanni Russo

We give a new fast method for evaluating sprectral approximations of nonlinear polynomial functionals. We prove that the new algorithm is convergent if the functions considered are smooth enough, under a general assumption on the spectral…

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We lift the constraint of a diagonal representation of the Hamiltonian by searching for square integrable bases that support an infinite tridiagonal matrix representation of the wave operator. The class of solutions obtained as such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Alhaidari

The aim of this paper is to investigate the quality of approximation of almost time and band limited functions by its expansion in the Hermite and scaled Hermite basis. As a corollary, this allows us to obtain the rate of convergence of the…

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Pseudo-Hermitian operators appear in the solution of Maxwell's equations for stationary non-dispersive media with arbitrary (space-dependent) permittivity and permeability tensors. We offer an extension of the results in this direction to…

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