STABILITY OF THE HIGHER-ORDER SPLITTING METHODS FOR THE NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION WITH AN ARBITRARY DISPERSION OPERATOR

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The numerical solution of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation by simple splitting methods can be disturbed by so-called spurious instabilities. We analyze these numerical instabilities for an arbitrary splitting method and apply our results to several well-known higher-order splittings. We find that the spurious instabilities can be suppressed to a large extent. However, they never disappear completely if one keeps the integration step above a certain limit and applies what is considered to be a more accurate higher-order method. The latter can be used to make calculations more accurate with the same numerically stable step, but not to make calculations faster with a much larger step.

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