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Large-scale 3-D solutions of the time-dependent Dirac equation

Conference ·
OSTI ID:10116672

The authors present the numerical approach used in solving the time-dependent Dirac equation on a three-dimensional Cartesian lattice. Discretization is achieved through the lattice basis-spline collocation method, in which quantum-state vectors and coordinate-space operators are expressed in terms of basis-spline functions on a spatial lattice. All numerical procedures reduce to a series of matrix-vector operations which are performed on the Intel iPSC/860 hypercube, making full use of parallelism. The authors discuss their solutions to the problems of limited node memory and node-to-node communication overhead inherent in using distributed-memory.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
10116672
Report Number(s):
CONF-9309176--4; ON: DE94005591
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English