An efficient approach for solving nonlinear multidimensional Schrodinger equations

Abstract

An efficient numerical method is proposed for the solution of the nonlinear cubic Schrodinger equation. The proposed method is based on the Frechet derivative and the meshless method with radial basis functions. An important characteristic of the method is that it can be extended from one-dimensional problems to multi-dimensional ones easily. By using the Frechet derivative and Newton-Raphson technique, the nonlinear equation is converted into a set of linear algebraic equations which are solved iteratively. Numerical examples reveal that the proposed method is efficient and reliable with respect to the accuracy and stability.