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A stochastic algorithm without time discretization error for the Wigner equation

  • * Corresponding author: Orazio Muscato

    * Corresponding author: Orazio Muscato 
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  • Stochastic particle methods for the numerical treatment of the Wigner equation are considered. The approximation properties of these methods depend on several numerical parameters. Such parameters are the number of particles, a time step (if transport and other processes are treated separately) and the grid size (used for the discretization of the position and the wave-vector). A stochastic algorithm without time discretization error is introduced. Its derivation is based on the theory of piecewise deterministic Markov processes. Numerical experiments are performed in a one-dimensional test case. Approximation properties with respect to the grid size and the number of particles are studied. Convergence of a time-splitting scheme to the no-splitting algorithm is demonstrated. The no-splitting algorithm is shown to be more efficient in terms of computational effort.

    Mathematics Subject Classification: 65C05, 81S30, 82D37.

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  • Figure 1.  Density (37) (calculated with parameters (44) in which $N_k = 400$) and reference solution (39)

    Figure 2.  Density (37) (calculated with parameters (44) and $N_k = 100$) and reference solution (39)

    Figure 3.  Wave-vector density (38) (calculated with parameters (44) and $N_k = 100$) and stochastic reference solution ($N_k = 400$)

    Figure 4.  Total average position (32)

    Figure 5.  Total average velocity (33)

    Figure 6.  Total average kinetic energy (34)

    Figure 7.  Density (37) (calculated with parameters (44) and $N_x = 100$) and reference solution (39)

    Figure 8.  Numbers of particles before and after cancellations for the parameters (44)

    Figure 9.  Density (37) (calculated with parameters (44) and various $\Delta t$) and reference solution (39)

    Figure 10.  Function (47)

    Table 1.  Properties of the algorithm for various sets of cancellation parameters. The quantity "calls" denotes the number of calls to the cancellation procedure and $N_{\rm after}$ is the average number of particles after the last cancellation

    $N_k$ $N_x$ $N_{\rm ini}$ $N_{\rm canc}$ calls $N_{\rm after}$ CPU (sec)
    400 400 160k 480k 20 358k 256
    100 400 160k 480k 14 273k 218
    400 100 160k 480k 15 301k 229
    400 400 40k 480k 7 174k 151
    400 400 160k 960k 9 402k 345
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    Table 2.  Properties of the time-splitting algorithm and the no-splitting algorithm. The quantities "err-max" and "err-aver" denote, respectively, the maximum and the average (over the cells) of the absolute differences between the measured density and the reference solution. The last column provides the measurements of the first, second and third cancellation time

    $\Delta t$ (fsec.) CPU (sec.) err-max err-aver canc. times
    1 278 0.0106 0.0024 3.0000, 6.0000, 8.0000
    0.4 395 0.0053 0.0009 2.4000, 4.4000, 6.4000
    0.1 928 0.0019 0.0004 2.0000, 3.8000, 5.4870
    0.05 1628 0.0018 0.0003 1.9500, 3.6700, 5.2730
    0.025 3028 0.0017 0.0003 1.9222, 3.6222, 5.2182
    no-splitting 256 0.0013 0.0002 1.8927, 3.5716, 5.1428
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