Absorbing boundaries in numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation on a grid using exterior complex scaling
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik of komplexer Systeme, Noethnitzer Str.38, D-01187 Dresden (Germany)
We study the suppression of reflections in the numerical simulation of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for strong-field problems on a grid using exterior complex scaling (ECS) as an absorbing boundary condition. It is shown that the ECS method can be applied in both the length and the velocity gauge as long as appropriate approximations are applied in the ECS transformation of the electron-field coupling. It is found that the ECS method improves the suppression of reflection as compared to the conventional masking function technique in typical simulations of atoms exposed to an intense laser pulse. Finally, we demonstrate the advantage of the ECS technique to avoid unphysical artifacts in the evaluation of high harmonic spectra.
- OSTI ID:
- 20982549
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 75, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.053407; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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