Exponential integrators for stochastic Schrödinger equations driven by Ito noise

Abstract

We study an explicit exponential scheme for the time discretisation of stochastic Schrödinger equations driven by additive or multiplicative Ito noise. The numerical scheme is shown to converge with strong order 1 if the noise is additive and with strong order 1/2 for multiplicative noise. In addition, if the noise is additive, we show that the exact solutions of our problems satisfy trace formulas for the expected mass, energy, and momentum (i. e., linear drifts in these quantities). Furthermore, we inspect the behaviour of the numerical solutions with respect to these trace formulas. Several numerical simulations are presented and confirm our theoretical results.