An efficient method inspired by the traditional body of revolution finite-difference time-domain
(BOR-FDTD) method is developed to solve the Schrödinger equation for rotationally symmetric
problems. As test cases, spherical, cylindrical, cone-like quantum dots, harmonic oscillator, and
spherical quantum dot with hydrogenic impurity are investigated to check the efficiency of the
proposed method which we coin as Quantum BOR-FDTD (Q-BOR-FDTD) method. The obtained
results are analysed and compared to the 3D FDTD method, and the analytical solutions. Q-BORFDTD
method proves to be very accurate and time and memory efficient by reducing a threedimensional
problem to a two-dimensional one, therefore one can employ very fine meshes to get very
precise results. Moreover, it can be exploited to solve problems including hydrogenic impurities which
is not an easy task in the traditional FDTD calculation due to singularity problem. To demonstrate its
accuracy, we consider spherical and cone-like core-shellQDwith hydrogenic impurity. Comparison
with analytical solutions confirms that Q-BOR–FDTD method is very efficient and accurate for
solving Schrödinger equation for problems with hydrogenic impurity