An efficient energy-preserving method for the two-dimensional fractional Schrödinger equation

Abstract In this paper, we study the Hamiltonian structure and develop a novel energy-preserving scheme for the two-dimensional fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. First, we present the variational derivative of the functional with fractional Laplacian to derive the Hamiltonian formula of the equation and obtain an equivalent system by defining a scalar variable. An energy-preserving scheme is then presented by applying exponential time differencing approximations for time integration and Fourier pseudo-spectral discretization in space. The proposed scheme is a linear system and can be solved efficiently. Numerical experiments are displayed to verify the conservation, efficiency, and good performance at a relatively large time step in long time computations.