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Efficient numerical method for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with high-contrast potentials

Numerical Analysis 2025-07-21 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in the semiclassical regime and with multiscale potential function. We develop the so-called constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM), in the framework of Crank-Nicolson (CN) discretization in time. The localized multiscale basis functions are constructed by addressing the spectral problem and a constrained energy minimization problem related to the Hamiltonian norm. A first-order convergence in the energy norm and second-order convergence in the L2L^2 norm for our numerical scheme are shown, with a relation between oversampling number in the CEM-GMsFEM method, spatial mesh size and the semiclassical parameter provided. Furthermore, we demonstrate the convergence of the proposed Crank-Nicolson CEM-GMsFEM scheme. The convergence requires H/Λ=O(ε54)H/\sqrt{\Lambda}=O(\varepsilon^{\frac{5}{4}}), Δt=O(ε54)\Delta t=O(\varepsilon^{\frac{5}{4}}) if εδ\varepsilon\leq \delta; while if δ<ε\delta<\varepsilon, the convergence requires H/Λ=O(ε14δ)H/\sqrt{\Lambda}=O(\varepsilon^{\frac{1}{4}}\delta), Δt=O(δ2ε3/4)\Delta t=O(\frac{\delta^2}{\varepsilon^{3/4}}) (where HH represents the maximum diameter of coarse elements, Λ\Lambda is the minimal eigenvalue associated with the eigenvector not included in the auxiliary space, Δt\Delta t is the time step, 0<ε10 < \varepsilon\ll 1 is the Planck constant and δ\delta describes the multiscale structure of the potential).Several numerical examples including 1D and 2D in space, with high-contrast potential are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our proposed scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2502.06158,
  title  = {Efficient numerical method for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with high-contrast potentials},
  author = {Xingguang Jin and Liu Liu and Xiang Zhong and Eric T. Chung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06158},
  year   = {2025}
}
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