TY - JOUR T1 - A Time-Space Adaptive Method for the Schrödinger Equation JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 1 SP - 60 EP - 85 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/04 SN - 20 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.101214.021015a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/11145.html KW - AB -

In this paper, we present a discretization of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation based on a Magnus-Lanczos time integrator and high-order Gauss-Lobatto finite elements in space. A truncated Galerkin orthogonality is used to obtain duality-based a posteriori error estimates that address the temporal and the spatial error separately. Based on this theory, a space-time adaptive solver for the Schrödinger equation is devised. An efficient matrix-free implementation of the differential operator, suited for spectral elements, is used to enable computations for realistic configurations. We demonstrate the performance of the algorithm for the example of matter-field interaction.