A New Multi-Symplectic Integration Method for the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation

作者:Lv Zhong-Quan; Wang Yu-Shun; Song Yong-Zhong*
来源:Chinese Physics Letters, 2013, 30(3): 030201.
DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/30/3/030201

摘要

We propose a new multi-symplectic integration method for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The new scheme is derived by concatenating spatial discretization of the multi-symplectic Fourier pseudospectral method with temporal discretization of a symplectic Euler scheme and it is semi-explicit in the sense that it does not need to solve the nonlinear algebraic equations at every time step. We verify that the multi-symplectic semi-discretization of the Schrodinger equation with periodic boundary conditions has.. semi-discrete multi-symplectic conservation laws. The discretization in time of the semi-discretization leads to.. full-discrete multi-symplectic conservation laws. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the robustness and the stability.