Low Regularity Exponential-Type Integrators for Semilinear Schrödinger Equations

We introduce low regularity exponential-type integrators for nonlinear Schrödinger equations for which first-order convergence only requires the boundedness of one additional derivative of the solution. More precisely, we will prove first-order convergence in $$H^r$$Hr for solutions in $$H^{r+1}$$Hr+1 (with $$r > d/2$$r>d/2) of the derived schemes. This allows us lower regularity assumptions on the data than for instance required for classical splitting or exponential integration schemes. For one-dimensional quadratic Schrödinger equations, we can even prove first-order convergence without any loss of regularity. Numerical experiments underline the favorable error behavior of the newly introduced exponential-type integrators for low regularity solutions compared to classical splitting and exponential integration schemes.