Precise numerical solutions of potential problems using the Crank-Nicolson method

  • Authors:
  • Daekyoung Kang;E. Won

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea;Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a numerically precise treatment of the Crank-Nicolson method with an imaginary time evolution operator in order to solve the Schrodinger equation. The time evolution technique is applied to the inverse-iteration method that provides a systematic way to calculate not only eigenvalues of the ground-state but also of the excited-states. This method systematically produces eigenvalues with the accuracy of eleven digits when the Cornell potential is used. An absolute error estimation technique is implemented based on a power counting rule. This method is examined on exactly solvable problems and produces the numerical accuracy down to 10^-^1^1.