This paper deals with the numerical simulation of the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation, for which a well-known feature is the appearance of quantized vortices with core size of the order of a small parameter $\varepsilon$. Without a magnetic field and with suitable initial conditions, these vortices interact, in the singular limit $\varepsilon\to0$, through an explicit Hamiltonian dynamics. Using this analytical framework, we develop and analyze a numerical strategy based on the reduced-order Hamiltonian system to efficiently simulate the infinite-dimensional GP equation for small, but finite, $\varepsilon$. This method allows us to avoid numerical stability issues in solving the GP equation, where small values of $\varepsilon$ typically require very fine meshes and time steps. We also provide a mathematical justification of our method in terms of rigorous error estimates of the error in the supercurrent, together with numerical illustrations.
翻译:本文研究Gross-Pitaevskii(GP)方程的数值模拟问题,该方程的典型特征是会产生核尺寸约为小参数$\varepsilon$量级的量子化涡旋。在无磁场条件下并给定适当初始条件时,这些涡旋在奇异极限$\varepsilon\to0$下通过显式哈密顿动力学相互作用。基于这一分析框架,我们开发并分析了一种基于降阶哈密顿系统的数值策略,以高效模拟小但有限的$\varepsilon$情况下的无穷维GP方程。该方法使我们能够避免求解GP方程时的数值稳定性问题——通常$\varepsilon$值越小,所需网格和时间步长就越精细。我们还提供了方法在超流涡量误差方面的严格误差估计数学证明,并辅以数值实例说明。