Splitting methods for nonlinear Schrödinger equation without order reduction

Abstract

A technique is provided in this paper to integrate nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time-dependent Dirichlet boundary conditions with high-order Yoshida splittings which are based on Strang method. For that, a modification of Strang method is required in which the linear and stiff part of the equation is integrated with a rational-like version of midpoint rule for which the required boundary values can be calculated without resorting to any differentiation of data. Although Yoshida splitting (with real coefficients) cannot be applied to parabolic problems to obtain order higher than two because of stability, the modified Strang method is also applicable to such type of problems and local order $3$ and global order $2$ are also obtained without differentiation of data.