Existence and orbital stability of standing waves for some nonlinear Schrödinger equations, perturbation of a model case

The following nonlinear Schrödinger equation is studied

     

Multi-bump standing waves with a critical frequency for nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this paper we study the existence and qualitative property of standing wave solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with E being a critical frequency in the sense that . We show that if the zero set of W−E has several isolated connected components Z_i(i=1,…,m) such that the interior of Z_i is not empty and ∂Z_i is smooth, then for ?>0 small there exists, for any integer k,1?k?m, a standing wave solution which is trapped in a neighborhood of , where is any given subset of . Moreover the amplitude of the standing wave is of the level . This extends the result of Byeon and Wang (Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 165 (2002) 295) and is in striking contrast with the non-critical frequency case , which has been studied extensively in the past 20 years.     

Evolution of solitary waves for a perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Soliton perturbation theory is used to determine the evolution of a solitary wave described by a perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Perturbation terms, which model wide classes of physically relevant perturbations, are considered. An analytical solution is found for the first-order correction of the evolving solitary wave. This solution for the solitary wave tail is in integral form and an explicit expression is found, for large time. Singularity theory, usually used for combustion problems, is applied to the large time expression for the solitary wave tail. Analytical results are obtained, such as the parameter regions in which qualitatively different types of solitary wave tails occur, the location of zeros and the location and amplitude of peaks, in the solitary wave tail. Two examples, the near-continuum limit of a discrete NLS equation and an explicit numerical scheme for the NLS equation, are considered in detail. For the discrete NLS equation it is found that three qualitatively different types of solitary wave tail can occur, while for the explicit finite-difference scheme, only one type of solitary wave tail occurs. An excellent comparison between the perturbation solution and numerical simulations, for the solitary wave tail, is found for both examples.     

Global existence of small classical solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We study the global Cauchy problem for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with cubic interactions of derivative type in space dimension n?3$n?3$. The global existence of small classical solutions is proved in the case where every real part of the first derivatives of the interaction with respect to first derivatives of wavefunction is derived by a potential function of quadratic interaction. The proof depends on the energy estimate involving the quadratic potential and on the endpoint Strichartz estimates.     

Parametric resonance of ground states in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We study the global existence and long-time behavior of solutions of the initial-value problem for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an attractive localized potential and a time-dependent nonlinearity coefficient. For small initial data, we show under some nondegeneracy assumptions that the solution approaches the profile of the ground state and decays in time like t^-1/4. The decay is due to resonant coupling between the ground state and the radiation field induced by the time-dependent nonlinearity coefficient.     

Exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation by the first integral method

The first integral method is an efficient method for obtaining exact solutions of some nonlinear partial differential equations. This method can be applied to nonintegrable equations as well as to integrable ones. In this paper, the first integral method is used to construct exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.     

Well-posedness for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We establish local well-posedness for small initial data in the usual Sobolev spaces Hs(R), s?1, and global well-posedness in H¹(R), for the Cauchy problem associated to the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation

     

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a point defect

We study the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a delta-function impurity in one space dimension. Local well-posedness is verified for the Cauchy problem in H¹(R)$H^1(\mathbb{R})$. In case of attractive delta-function, orbital stability and instability of the ground state is proved in H¹(R)$H^1(\mathbb{R})$.     

Nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions to the Schrödinger and the modified Korteweg-de Vries equations

This work is concerned with stability properties of periodic traveling waves solutions of the focusing Schrödinger equation

iut+uxx+²|u|u=0     

A priori bounds and weak solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in Sobolev spaces of negative order

Solutions to the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the real line are studied in Sobolev spaces Hs, for s negative but close to 0. For smooth solutions there is an a priori upper bound for the Hs norm of the solution, in terms of the Hs norm of the datum, for arbitrarily large data, for sufficiently short time. Weak solutions are constructed for arbitrary initial data in Hs.     

A nonlinear superposition principle and multibump solutions of periodic Schrödinger equations

In an abstract setting we prove a nonlinear superposition principle for zeros of equivariant vector fields that are asymptotically additive in a well-defined sense. This result is used to obtain multibump solutions for two basic types of periodic stationary Schrödinger equations with superlinear nonlinearity. The nonlinear term may be of convolution type. If the superquadratic term in the energy functional is convex, our results also apply in certain cases if 0 is in a gap of the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator.     

New types of exact solutions for the fourth-order dispersive cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In this study, we use two direct algebraic methods to solve a fourth-order dispersive cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the propagation of optical pulse in a medium exhibiting a parabolic nonlinearity law. By using complex envelope ansatz method, we first obtain a new dark soliton and bright soliton, which may approach nonzero when the time variable approaches infinity. Then a series of analytical exact solutions are constructed by means of F-expansion method. These solutions include solitary wave solutions of the bell shape, solitary wave solutions of the kink shape, and periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function.     

Numerical studies on nonlinear Schrödinger equations by spectral collocation method with preconditioning

In this study, we use the spectral collocation method with preconditioning to solve various nonlinear Schrödinger equations. To reduce round-off error in spectral collocation method we use preconditioning. We study the numerical accuracy of the method. The numerical results obtained by this way have been compared with the exact solution to show the efficiency of the method.     

Schrödinger operators on periodic discrete graphs

We consider Schrödinger operators with periodic potentials on periodic discrete graphs. The spectrum of the Schrödinger operator consists of an absolutely continuous part (a union of a finite number of non-degenerated bands) plus a finite number of flat bands, i.e., eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity. We obtain estimates of the Lebesgue measure of the spectrum in terms of geometric parameters of the graph and show that they become identities for some class of graphs. Moreover, we obtain stability estimates and show the existence and positions of large number of flat bands for specific graphs. The proof is based on the Floquet theory and the precise representation of fiber Schrödinger operators, constructed in the paper.     

Quasi-periodic solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations of higher dimension

It is shown that there are plenty of quasi-periodic solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations of higher spatial dimension, where the dimension of the frequency vectors of the quasi-periodic solutions are equal to that of the space.     

A note on blow-up phenomena for mass critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In this paper, we mainly discuss the radial case for L² critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with finite blow-up time. We describe that the solution may concentrate some points with different speeds. Furthermore, we give further research to the conjecture given by F. Merle and P. Raphael (2005) in [13] and we proved the conjecture for some cases.     

Strichartz estimates for the magnetic Schrödinger equation

We prove global, scale invariant Strichartz estimates for the linear magnetic Schrödinger equation with small time dependent magnetic field. This is done by constructing an appropriate parametrix. As an application, we show a global regularity type result for Schrödinger maps in dimensions n?6.