Arnold, A., & Körner, J. (2025). WKB-based third order method for the highly oscillatory 1D stationary Schrödinger equation. Advances in Computational Mathematics, 51(3), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-025-10234-y
Schrödinger equation; Highly oscillatory wave functions; Higher order WKB approximation; Initial value problem
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Abstract:
This paper introduces an efficient high-order numerical method for solving the 1D stationary Schrödinger equation in the highly oscillatory regime. Building upon the ideas from the article (Arnold et al. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 49, 1436–1460, 2011), we first analytically transform the given equation into a smoother (i.e., less oscillatory) equation. By developing sufficiently accurate quadratures for several (iterated) oscillatory integrals occurring in the Picard approximation of the solution, we obtain a one-step method that is third order w.r.t. the step size. The accuracy and efficiency of the method are illustrated through several numerical examples.
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Project title:
Analytische, numerische und: I 3538-N32 (FWF - Österr. Wissenschaftsfonds)
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