A Family of Runge-Kutta Methods with Zero Phase-Lag and Derivatives for the Numerical Solution of the Schrödinger Equation and Related Problems

Abstract

We construct a family of two new optimized explicit Runge-Kutta methods with zero phase-lag and derivatives for the numerical solution of the time-independent radial Schrödinger equation and related ordinary differential equations with oscillating solutions. The numerical results show the superiority of the new technique of nullifying both the phase-lag and its derivatives.