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A multigrid method is proposed for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems by the finite element method. With this new scheme, solving nonlinear eigenvalue problem is decomposed to a series of solutions of linear boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Hehu Xie

Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Jiang , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

In this work we introduce and analyze a new multiscale method for strongly nonlinear monotone equations in the spirit of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition. A problem-adapted multiscale space is constructed by solving linear local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Barbara Verfürth

We present a numerical method for solving the Poisson equation on a nested grid. The nested grid consists of uniform grids having different grid spacing and is designed to cover the space closer to the center with a finer grid. Thus our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Amartya S. Banerjee , Ryan S. Elliott , Richard D. James

The convergence of iterative schemes to achieve self-consistency in mean field problems such as the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation is notoriously capricious. It is particularly difficult in regimes where the non-linearities are strong such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Antonio Lacerda-Santos , Xavier Waintal

In this paper, we propose a decomposition approach for eigenvalue problems with spatial symmetries, including the formulation, discretization as well as implementation. This approach can handle eigenvalue problems with either Abelian or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao , Aihui Zhou

This paper is to introduce a type of full multigrid method for the nonlinear eigenvalue problem. The main idea is to transform the solution of nonlinear eigenvalue problem into a series of solutions of the corresponding linear boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Shanghui Jia , Hehu Xie , Manting Xie , Fei Xu

In recent publications, the author and his coworkers have proposed a multigrid method for solving linear systems arizing from the discretization of partial differential equations in isogeometric analysis and have proven that the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

As part of our development of a computer code to perform 3D `constrained evolution' of Einstein's equations in 3+1 form, we discuss issues regarding the efficient solution of elliptic equations on domains containing holes (i.e., excised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott H. Hawley , Richard A. Matzner

We propose a distinct approach to solving linear and nonlinear differential equations (DEs) on quantum computers by encoding the problem into ground states of effective Hamiltonian operators. Our algorithm relies on constructing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Hsin-Yu Wu , Annie E. Paine , Evan Philip , Antonio A. Gentile , Oleksandr Kyriienko

High order algorithms have emerged in numerical astrophysics as a promising avenue to reduce truncation error (proportional to a power of the linear resolution $\Delta x$) with only a moderate increase to computational expense. Significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Patrick D. Mullen

We have studied the fragmentation of Li11+ clusters into the two experimentally observed products (Li9+,Li2) and (Li10+,Li) The ground state structures for the two fragmentation channels are found by Molecular Dynamics Simulated Annealing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco Ancilotto , Philippe Blandin , Flavio Toigo

We present a method for electronic structure calculations that retains all of the advantages of real space and addresses the inherent inefficiency of a regular grid, which has equal precision everywhere. The computations are carried out on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gil Zumbach , N. A. Modine , Efthimios Kaxiras

Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Yujia Chen , Colin B. Macdonald

Large-scale simulations of the wave equation in electromagnetism, seismology, and acoustics, can be solved efficiently by finite difference methods. The accuracy of these numerical solutions usually depends on the minimization of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Gianmarco Pinton

A cascadic multigrid method is proposed for the GPE problem based on the multilevel correction scheme. With this new scheme, the ground state eigenvalue problem on the finest space can be solved by smoothing steps on a series of multilevel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Xiaole Han , Hehu Xie

We propose a multigrid correction scheme to solve a new Steklov eigenvalue problem in inverse scattering. With this scheme, solving an eigenvalue problem in a fine finite element space is reduced to solve a series of boundary value problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Yu Zhang , Hai Bi , Yidu Yang

The Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory is one of the most widely used methods to solve electronic structure problems for a vast variety of atomistic systems across different scientific fields. While the method is fast relative to…

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung