TY - JOUR T1 - Plane Waves Numerical Stability of Some Explicit Exponential Methods for Cubic Schrödinger Equation AU - Cano , Begoña AU - González-Pachón , Adolfo JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 4 SP - 385 EP - 406 PY - 2016 DA - 2016/08 SN - 34 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1601-m4541 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9802.html KW - Numerical stability, Exponential splitting Lawson methods, Projection onto invariant quantities, Plane waves KW - Schrödinger equation. AB -

Numerical stability when integrating plane waves of cubic Schrödinger equation is thoroughly analysed for some explicit exponential methods. We center on the following second-order methods: Strang splitting and Lawson method based on a one-parameter family of 2-stage 2nd-order explicit Runge-Kutta methods. Regions of stability are plotted and numerical results are shown which corroborate the theoretical results. Besides, a technique is suggested to avoid the possible numerical instabilities which do not correspond to continuous ones.