Abstract
This paper is dedicated to the efficient numerical computation of solutions to the 1D stationary Schrödinger equation in the highly oscillatory regime. We compute an approximate solution based on the well-known WKB-ansatz, which relies on an asymptotic expansion w.r.t. the small parameter ɛ. Assuming that the coefficient in the equation is analytic, we derive an explicit error estimate for the truncated WKB series, in terms of ɛ and the truncation order N. For any fixed ɛ, this allows to determine the optimal truncation order Nopt which turns out to be proportional to ɛ−1. When chosen this way, the resulting error of the optimally truncated WKB series behaves like O(exp(−r/ɛ)), with some parameter r>0. The theoretical results established in this paper are confirmed by several numerical examples.
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