Title
Computing the ground state and dynamics of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonlocal interactions via the nonuniform FFT
Abstract
We present efficient and accurate numerical methods for computing the ground state and dynamics of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) with nonlocal interactions based on a fast and accurate evaluation of the long-range interactions via the nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT). We begin with a review of the fast and accurate NUFFT based method in 29] for nonlocal interactions where the singularity of the Fourier symbol of the interaction kernel at the origin can be canceled by switching to spherical or polar coordinates. We then extend the method to compute other nonlocal interactions whose Fourier symbols have stronger singularity at the origin that cannot be canceled by the coordinate transform. Many of these interactions do not decay at infinity in the physical space, which adds another layer of complexity since it is more difficult to impose the correct artificial boundary conditions for the truncated bounded computational domain. The performance of our method against other existing methods is illustrated numerically, with particular attention on the effect of the size of the computational domain in the physical space. Finally, to study the ground state and dynamics of the NLSE, we propose efficient and accurate numerical methods by combining the NUFFT method for potential evaluation with the normalized gradient flow using backward Euler Fourier pseudospectral discretization and time-splitting Fourier pseudospectral method, respectively. Extensive numerical comparisons are carried out between these methods and other existing methods for computing the ground state and dynamics of the NLSE with various nonlocal interactions. Numerical results show that our scheme performs much better than those existing methods in terms of both accuracy and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.jcp.2015.04.045
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation,Nonlocal interactions,Nonuniform FFT,Ground state,Dynamics,Poisson equation,Fractional Poisson equation
Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical analysis,Fourier transform,Fast Fourier transform,Numerical analysis,Backward Euler method,Nonlinear Schrödinger equation,Split-step method,Mathematics,Pseudo-spectral method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
296
C
J. Comput. Phys., 296 (2015), 72-89
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.52
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weizhu Bao163895.92
Shidong Jiang25911.53
Qinglin Tang3537.29
Yong Zhang4294.56