NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION USING COLLOCATION METHOD WITH CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NSE) is a partial differential equation (PDE) with numerous applications in quantum mechanics. Analytical methods for the solution of NSE are almost impossible due to their complexity. Thus, the need for a numerical scheme to seek the approximate solution of the NSE. Hence, this paper considered the numerical solution of the NSE via the spectral collocation method (SCM) with Chebyshev orthogonal polynomials of the first kind. The scheme was efficiently constructed to solve the NSE equation with the aid of MAPLE 18, and numerical evidence compared with Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM), Homotopy Analysis Transform Method (HATM) and Residual Power Series Method (RPSM) as available in the literature. The findings show that the SCM is an effective solver for NSE with rapid convergence to the exact solution as the parameter �varies.