Volume 5, Issue 3
On Computation for a Hydrogen Atom in Arbitrary Magnetic Fields Using Finite Volume Method

Gyanendra P. Sasmal

J. At. Mol. Sci., 5 (2014), pp. 187-205.

Published online: 2014-05

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The Schrödinger equation in a 2D cylindrical coordinate system is numerically solved for the ground state and a few excited states of the hydrogen atom in arbitrary magnetic fields. The second order discretization of the PDEs on finite volumes results in a set of algebraic equations that are solved simultaneously using Gauss-Seidel Algebraic Multi-Grid (AMG) solver. The modified Stodola-Vianello method is implemented using Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process to extract the first few energy states and their wave functions concurrently. A detailed mesh convergence study suggests that both energies and wave functions correctly approach toward the unknown exact solutions.

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The Schrödinger equation in a 2D cylindrical coordinate system is numerically solved for the ground state and a few excited states of the hydrogen atom in arbitrary magnetic fields. The second order discretization of the PDEs on finite volumes results in a set of algebraic equations that are solved simultaneously using Gauss-Seidel Algebraic Multi-Grid (AMG) solver. The modified Stodola-Vianello method is implemented using Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process to extract the first few energy states and their wave functions concurrently. A detailed mesh convergence study suggests that both energies and wave functions correctly approach toward the unknown exact solutions.

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The Schrödinger equation in a 2D cylindrical coordinate system is numerically solved for the ground state and a few excited states of the hydrogen atom in arbitrary magnetic fields. The second order discretization of the PDEs on finite volumes results in a set of algebraic equations that are solved simultaneously using Gauss-Seidel Algebraic Multi-Grid (AMG) solver. The modified Stodola-Vianello method is implemented using Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process to extract the first few energy states and their wave functions concurrently. A detailed mesh convergence study suggests that both energies and wave functions correctly approach toward the unknown exact solutions.

Gyanendra P. Sasmal. (1970). On Computation for a Hydrogen Atom in Arbitrary Magnetic Fields Using Finite Volume Method. Journal of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. 5 (3). 187-205. doi:10.4208/jams.110813.021414a
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