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A family of P-stable exponentially‐fitted methods for the numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation

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A family of P‐stable exponentially‐fitted methods for the numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation is developed in this paper. An application to the resonance problem of the radial Schrödinger equation indicates that the new method is generally more efficient than the previously developed exponentially‐fitted methods of the same kind.

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Simos, T. A family of P-stable exponentially‐fitted methods for the numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 25, 65–84 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019115929321

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