An efficient numerical approach to solve Schrödinger equations with space fractional derivative

Abstract

We design and analyze an efficient numerical approach to solve the coupled Schrödinger equations with space‐fractional derivative. The numerical scheme is based on leap‐frog in time direction and Fourier method in spatial direction. The advantage of the numerical scheme is that only a linear equation needs to be solved for each time step size, and we proved that the energy and mass of space‐fractional coupled Schrödinger equations (SFCSEs) are conserved in the case of full‐discrete scheme. Moreover, we also analyze the error estimate of the numerical scheme, and numerical solutions converge with the order in L2 norm. Numerical examples are illustrated to verify the theoretical results.