Related papers: Conservation properties of a leapfrog finite-diffe…
This paper establishes a far-reaching connection between the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method (FDTD) and the theory of dissipative systems. The FDTD equations for a rectangular region are written as a dynamical system having the…
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…
The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a well-known technique for the analysis of quantum devices. It solves a discretized Schrodinger equation in an explicitly iterative process. However, the method requires the spatial grid…
The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is a popular numerical method for solving electromagnetic problems. FDTD simulations can suffer from instability due to the explicit nature of the method. Stability enforcement can be…
In this paper, an improvement of the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method using a non-standard finite difference scheme is presented. The standard numerical scheme for the second derivative in the spatial domain is replaced by a…
In this paper, we propose a linearized finite element method (FEM) for solving the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with wave operator. In this method, a modified leap-frog scheme is applied for time discretization and a Galerkin…
The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved using the three-dimensional Finite Difference-Time Domain (FDTD) method. The dynamics of the electron wave packet in a scalar potential is studied in the arrangements associated with the Klein…
In this paper, we propose a family of time-stepping schemes for approximating general nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. The proposed schemes all satisfy both mass conservation and energy conservation. Truncation and dispersion error…
We extend the publicly available quantumfdtd code. It was originally intended for solving the time-independent three-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and for extracting the ground,…
It is known that the digital waveguide (DW) method for solving the wave equation numerically on a grid can be manipulated into the form of the standard finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method (also known as the ``leapfrog'' recursion).…
A general method for numerical computation of the thermal density matrix of a single-particle quantum system is presented. The Schrodinger equation in imaginary time tau is solved numerically by the finite difference time domain (FDTD)…
A family of arbitrarily high-order fully discrete space-time finite element methods are proposed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation based on the scalar auxiliary variable formulation, which consists of a Gauss collocation temporal…
In this work we discuss the numerical discretization of the time-dependent Maxwell's equations using a fully explicit leap-frog type discontinuous Galerkin method. We present a sufficient condition for the stability, for cases of typical…
This paper is concerned with the optimal error estimates and energy conservation properties of the alternating direction implicit finite-difference time-domain (ADI-FDTD) method which is a popular scheme for solving the 3D Maxwell…
A dissipation theory is proposed for the potentials-based FDTD algorithm for the case of inhomogeneous lossless media. We show that under the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) limit, the equations describing the time evolution of scalar and…
This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…
In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…
The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method has been successfully applied to obtain energies and wave functions for two electrons in a quantum dot modeled by a three dimensional harmonic potential. The FDTD method uses the…
We prove unique continuation properties for solutions of the evolution Schr\"odinger equation with time dependent potentials. As an application of our method we also obtain results concerning the possible concentration profiles of blow up…
In this work, we introduce a structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method \cite{cockburn1998local} for solving the non-local non-linear Fokker-Planck-Landau (FPL) equations. We rephrase the structure-preserving strategy of…