CONVERGENCE OF A QUANTUM LATTICE BOLTZMANN SCHEME TO THE NONLINEAR DIRAC EQUATION FOR GROSS-NEVEU MODEL IN 1+1 DIMENSIONS

This paper studies the strong convergence of the quantum lattice Boltzmann(QLB)scheme for the nonlinear Dirac equations for Gross-Neveu model in 1+1 dimensions.The initial data for the scheme are assumed to be convergent in L^(2).Then for any T≥0 the corresponding solutions for the quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme are shown to be convergent in C([0,T];L^(2)(R^(1)))to the strong solution to the nonlinear Dirac equations as the mesh sizes converge to zero.In the proof,at first a Glimm type functional is introduced to establish the stability estimates for the difference between two solutions for the corresponding quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme,which leads to the compactness of the set of the solutions for the quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme.Finally the limit of any convergent subsequence of the solutions for the quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme is shown to coincide with the strong solution to a Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Dirac equations.

BUBBLING ANALYSIS FOR A NONLINEAR DIRAC EQUATION ON SURFACES

In this paper,we apply the three circle type method and a Hardy type inequality to a nonlinear Dirac type equation on surfaces,and provide alternative proofs to the energy quantization results.

Error estimates of numerical methods for the nonlinear Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime

We present several numerical methods and establish their error estimates for the discretization of the nonlinear Dirac equation （NLDE） in the nonrelativistic limit regime, involving a small dimensionless parameter 0 〈 ε〈〈1 which is inversely proportional to the speed of light. In this limit regime, the solution is highly oscillatory in time, i.e., there are propagating waves with wavelength O（ ε^2） and O（1） in time and space, respectively. We begin with the conservative Crank-Nicolson finite difference （CNFD） method and establish rigorously its error estimate which depends explicitly on the mesh size h and time step τ- as well as the small parameter 0 〈 ε≤1 Based on the error bound, in order to obtain ＇correct＇ numerical solutions in the nonrelativistic limit regime, i.e., 0 〈 ε≤1 , the CNFD method requests the ε-scalability： τ- = O（ε3） and h = O（√ε）. Then we propose and analyze two numerical methods for the discretization of NLDE by using the Fourier spectral discretization for spatial derivatives combined with the exponential wave integrator and time- splitting technique for temporal derivatives, respectively. Rigorous error bounds for the two numerical methods show that their ε-scalability is improved to τ = O（ε2） and h = O（1） when 0 〈 ε 〈〈 1. Extensive numerical results are reported to confirm our error estimates.

Implicit integration factor method for the nonlinear Dirac equation

A high-order accuracy time discretization method is developed in this paper to solve the one-dimensional nonlinear Dirac(NLD)equation.Based on the implicit integration factor(IIF)method,two schemes are proposed.Central differences are applied to the spatial discretization.The semi-discrete scheme keeps the conservation of the charge and energy.For the temporal discretization,second-order IIF method and fourth-order IIF method are applied respectively to the nonlinear system arising from the spatial discretization.Numerical experiments are given to validate the accuracy of these schemes and to discuss the interaction dynamics of the NLD solitary waves.

Explicit Multi-Symplectic Splitting Methods for the Nonlinear Dirac Equation

In this paper,we propose two new explicit multi-symplectic splitting methods for the nonlinear Dirac(NLD)equation.Based on its multi-symplectic formulation,the NLD equation is split into one linear multi-symplectic system and one nonlinear infinite Hamiltonian system.Then multi-symplectic Fourier pseudospectral method and multi-symplectic Preissmann scheme are employed to discretize the linear subproblem,respectively.And the nonlinear subsystem is solved by a symplectic scheme.Finally,a composition method is applied to obtain the final schemes for the NLD equation.We find that the two proposed schemes preserve the total symplecticity and can be solved explicitly.Numerical experiments are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

ON GROUND STATE SOLUTIONS FOR SUPERLINEAR DIRAC EQUATION

This article is concerned with the nonlinear Dirac equations-iδtψ=ich ∑k=1^3 αkδkψ-mc^2βψ＋Rψ（x,ψ） in R^3.Under suitable assumptions on the nonlinearity, we establish the existence of ground state solutions by the generalized Nehari manifold method developed recently by Szulkin and Weth.