TY - GEN A1 - Antoine, Xavier A1 - Arnold, Anton A1 - Besse, Christophe A1 - Ehrhardt, Matthias A1 - Schädle, Achim T1 - A Review of Transparent and Artificial Boundary Conditions Techniques for Linear and Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations N2 - In this review article we discuss different techniques to solve numerically the time-dependent Schrödinger equation on unbounded domains. We present in detail the most recent approaches and describe briefly alternative ideas pointing out the relations between these works. We conclude with several numerical examples from different application areas to compare the presented techniques. We mainly focus on the one-dimensional problem but also touch upon the situation in two space dimensions and the cubic nonlinear case. T3 - ZIB-Report - 07-34 KW - Schrödinger equation KW - transparent boundary condition KW - discrete convolution KW - unbounded domain Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-10332 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ruprecht, Daniel A1 - Schädle, Achim A1 - Schmidt, Frank A1 - Zschiedrich, Lin T1 - Transparent boundary conditons for time-dependent problems N2 - A new approach to derive transparent boundary conditions (TBCs) for wave, Schrödinger, heat and drift-diffusion equations is presented. It relies on the pole condition and distinguishes between physical reasonable and unreasonable solutions by the location of the singularities of the spatial Laplace transform of the exterior solution. To obtain a numerical algorithm, a Möbius transform is applied to map the Laplace transform onto the unit disc. In the transformed coordinate the solution is expanded into a power series. Finally, equations for the coefficients of the power series are derived. These are coupled to the equation in the interior, and yield transparent boundary conditions. Numerical results are presented in the last section, showing that the error introduced by the new approximate TBCs decays exponentially in the number of coefficients. T3 - ZIB-Report - 07-12 KW - transparent boundary condition KW - non-reflecting boundary condition KW - pole condition KW - wave equation KW - Schrödinger equation KW - drift diffusion equation Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-9558 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Yevick, David A1 - Friese, Tilmann A1 - Schmidt, Frank T1 - A Comparison of Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Fresnel Equation N2 - We establish the relationship between the transparent boundary condition (BPP) of Baskakov and Popov [Wave Motion 14 (1991) 121-128] and Pakpadakis et. al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92 (1992) 2030-2038] and a second boundary condition (SDY) introduced by Schmidt and Deuflhard [Comp. Math. Appl. 29 (1995) 53-76] and Schmidt and Yevick [J. Compu. Phys. 134 (1997) 96-107], that is explicitly tailored to the form of the underlying numerical propagation scheme. Our analysis demonstrates that if the domain is first discretized in the propagation direction, the SDY expression can be obtained by applying the exact sequence of steps used to derive the BPP procedure. The BPP method is thus an approximate realization of the computationally far simpler and unconditionally stable SDY boundary condition. T3 - ZIB-Report - 00-05 KW - Fresnel equation KW - transparent boundary condition Y1 - 2000 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-5738 ER -