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We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua

We present a new class of high-order variational integrators on Lie groups. We show that these integrators are symplectic, momentum preserving, and can be constructed to be of arbitrarily high-order, or can be made to converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-17 James Hall , Melvin Leok

Numerical methods that preserves geometric invariants of the system such as energy, momentum and symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. These include variational integrators as an important subclass of geometric integrators. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 L. Colombo , J. Giribet , D. Martín de Diego

Among the family of fourth-order time integration schemes, the two-stage Gauss--Legendre method, which is an implicit Runge--Kutta method based on collocation, is the only superconvergent. The computational cost of this implicit scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Vu Thai Luan

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

Variational integrators are momentum-preserving and symplectic numerical methods used to propagate the evolution of Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we introduce a new class of variational integrators that achieve fourth-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Gerardo De La Torre , Todd Murphey

We show that the method of splitting the operator ${\rm e}^{\epsilon(T+V)}$ to fourth order with purely positive coefficients produces excellent algorithms for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. These algorithms require…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Siu A. Chin , C. -R. Chen

The explicit split-operator algorithm has been extensively used for solving not only linear but also nonlinear time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equations. When applied to the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation, the method remains…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Julien Roulet , Jiří Vaníček

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiří J. L. Vaníček

A variational formulation of accelerated optimization on normed spaces was recently introduced by considering a specific family of time-dependent Bregman Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems whose corresponding trajectories converge to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

Single-Hessian Gaussian wavepacket dynamics (GWD) significantly reduces the computational burden of Heller's local harmonic GWD, while maintaining comparable accuracy in approximating vibronic spectra. Here, we provide a new, symplectic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Davide Barbiero , Jiří J. L. Vaníček

A variationally improved Sturmian approximation for solving time-independent Schr\"odinger equation is developed. This approximation is used to obtain the energy levels of a quartic anharmonic oscillator, a quartic potential, and a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ali Mostafazadeh

In this paper, we present a variational integrator that is based on an approximation of the Euler--Lagrange boundary-value problem via Taylor's method. This can viewed as a special case of the shooting-based variational integrator. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Jeremy Schmitt , Tatiana Shingel , Melvin Leok

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Xiaobing Feng , Buyang Li , Shu Ma

The Bayesian smoothing equations are generally intractable for systems described by nonlinear stochastic differential equations and discrete-time measurements. Gaussian approximations are a computationally efficient way to approximate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Juha Ala-Luhtala , Simo Särkkä , Robert Piché

In this paper, we extend several time reversible numerical integrators to solve the Lorentz force equations from second order accuracy to higher order accuracy for relativistic charged particle tracking in electromagnetic fields. A fourth…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Ji Qiang

In the last two decades, significant effort has been put in understanding and designing so-called structure-preserving numerical methods for the simulation of mechanical systems. Geometric integrators attempt to preserve the geometry…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro

We discuss systematic extensions of the standard (St{\"o}rmer-Verlet) splitting method for differential equations of Hamiltonian mechanics, with relative accuracy of order $\tau^2$ for a timestep of length $\tau$, to higher orders in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Asif Mushtaq , Anne Kværnø , Kåre Olaussen

We propose a new class of high-order time-marching schemes with dissipation user-control and unconditional stability for parabolic equations. High-order time integrators can deliver the optimal performance of highly-accurate and robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Pouria Behnoudfar , Quanling Deng , Victor M. Calo

In the present paper we consider the semiclassical magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, which describes the dynamics of charged particles under the influence of a electro-magnetic field. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Malik Scheifinger , Kurt Busch , Marlis Hochbruck , Caroline Lasser