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Main Authors: Wu, Zhizhang, Zhang, Zhiwen, Zhao, Xiaofei
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06236
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author Wu, Zhizhang
Zhang, Zhiwen
Zhao, Xiaofei
author_facet Wu, Zhizhang
Zhang, Zhiwen
Zhao, Xiaofei
contents In this paper, we study the Schrödinger equation with a Gaussian random potential (SE-GP) and develop an efficient numerical method to approximate the expectation of physical observables. The unboundedness of Gaussian random variables poses significant difficulties in both sampling and error analysis. Under time-splitting discretizations of SE-GP, we establish the regularity of the semi-discrete solution in the random space. Then, we introduce a non-standard weighted Sobolev space with properly chosen weight functions, and obtain a randomly shifted lattice-based quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) quadrature rule for efficient sampling. This approach leads to a QMC time-splitting (QMC-TS) scheme for solving the SE-GP. We prove that the proposed QMC-TS method achieves a dimension-independent convergence rate that is almost linear with respect to the number of QMC samples. Numerical experiments illustrate the sharpness of the error estimate.
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spellingShingle Quasi-Monte Carlo time-splitting methods for Schrödinger equation with Gaussian random potential
Wu, Zhizhang
Zhang, Zhiwen
Zhao, Xiaofei
Numerical Analysis
65C30, 65D32, 65M15, 82B44
In this paper, we study the Schrödinger equation with a Gaussian random potential (SE-GP) and develop an efficient numerical method to approximate the expectation of physical observables. The unboundedness of Gaussian random variables poses significant difficulties in both sampling and error analysis. Under time-splitting discretizations of SE-GP, we establish the regularity of the semi-discrete solution in the random space. Then, we introduce a non-standard weighted Sobolev space with properly chosen weight functions, and obtain a randomly shifted lattice-based quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) quadrature rule for efficient sampling. This approach leads to a QMC time-splitting (QMC-TS) scheme for solving the SE-GP. We prove that the proposed QMC-TS method achieves a dimension-independent convergence rate that is almost linear with respect to the number of QMC samples. Numerical experiments illustrate the sharpness of the error estimate.
title Quasi-Monte Carlo time-splitting methods for Schrödinger equation with Gaussian random potential
topic Numerical Analysis
65C30, 65D32, 65M15, 82B44
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06236