Expansion with respect to ħ for bound states of the Schrödinger equation

A WKB-complementing expansion for bound states of the radial Schrödinger equation is discussed. A recursive method for calculating the quantum corrections of any order to the energy of the classical motion is presented. The use of quantization conditions makes it possible to write down recursion relations in an equally simple form for the ground and radially excited states. The connection between the approach and the 1/N expansion is considered. It is shown that the method can also be used for analysis in thel, E) plane in the form of a expansion for Regge trajectories.Dnepropetrovsk State University. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 208–217, February, 1992.     

Sharp upper bound on the blow-up rate for the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We consider the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation $iu_{t} = -\Delta u-|u|^{4/N}$ with initial condition u(0, x) = u₀.For u₀$\in$H¹, local existence in time of solutions on an interval [0, T) is known, and there exist finite time blow-up solutions, that is u₀ such that $\textrm{lim} _{t\uparrow T <+\infty}|\nabla u(t)|_{L^{2}}=+\infty$. This is the smallest power in the nonlinearity for which blow-up occurs, and is critical in this sense.The question we address is to control the blow-up rate from above for small (in a certain sense) blow-up solutions with negative energy. In a previous paper [MeR], we established some blow-up properties of (NLS) in the energy space which implied a control $|\nabla u(t)|_{L^{2}} \leq C \frac{|\ln(T-t)|^{N/4}}{\sqrt{T-t}}$ and removed the rate of the known explicit blow-up solutions which is $\frac{C}{T-t}$.In this paper, we prove the sharp upper bound expected from numerics as$|\nabla u(t)|_{L^{2}} \leq C \left(\frac{\ln|\ln(T-t)|}{T-t} \right)^{1/2}$by exhibiting the exact geometrical structure of dispersion for the problem.     

Maximum decay rate for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In this paper, we consider global solutions for the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation in with and We show that no nontrivial solution can decay faster than the solutions of the free Schrödinger equation, provided that u(0) lies in the weighted Sobolev space in the energy space, namely or in according to the different cases.     

Modified scattering for the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

$i{u}_t+\mathrm{\Delta }u=\lambda |u{|}^{\frac{2}{N}}u$

in all dimensions $N\ge 1$, where $\lambda \in \mathbb{C}$ and $?\lambda \le 0$. We construct a class of initial values for which the corresponding solution is global and decays as $t\to \infty$, like $t^{?\frac{N}{2}}$ if $?\lambda =0$ and like ${(t\log ?t)}^{?\frac{N}{2}}$ if $?\lambda <0$. Moreover, we give an asymptotic expansion of those solutions as $t\to \infty$. We construct solutions that do not vanish, so as to avoid any issue related to the lack of regularity of the nonlinearity at $u=0$. To study the asymptotic behavior, we apply the pseudo-conformal transformation and estimate the solutions by allowing a certain growth of the Sobolev norms which depends on the order of regularity through a cascade of exponents.     

Normal form for the symmetry-breaking bifurcation in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We derive and justify a normal form reduction of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a general pitchfork bifurcation of the symmetric bound state that occurs in a double-well symmetric potential. We prove persistence of normal form dynamics for both supercritical and subcritical pitchfork bifurcations in the time-dependent solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation over long but finite time intervals.     

On bounded solutions of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the half-line

We consider the problem on nonzero solutions of the Schrödinger equation on the half-line with potential that implicitly depends on the wave function via a nonlinear ordinary differential equation of the second order under zero boundary conditions for the wave function and the condition that the potential is zero at the beginning of the interval and its derivative is zero at infinity. The problem is reduced to the analysis and investigation of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a system of two nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations with initial conditions depending on two parameters. We show that if the solution of the Cauchy problem for some parameter values can be extended to the entire half-line, then there exists a nonzero solution of the original problem with finitely many zeros.     

Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the linear Schrödinger equation in non-cylindrical domains

The convergence of a discontinuous Galerkin method for the linear Schrödinger equation in non-cylindrical domains of ${\mathbb{R}^m}The convergence of a discontinuous Galerkin method for the linear Schr?dinger equation in non-cylindrical domains of \mathbbR^m{\mathbb{R}^m}, m ≥ 1, is analyzed in this paper. We show the existence of the resulting approximations and prove stability and error estimates in finite element spaces of general type. When m = 1 the resulting problem is related to the standard narrow angle ‘parabolic’ approximation of the Helmholtz equation, as it appears in underwater acoustics. In this case we investigate theoretically and numerically the order of convergence using finite element spaces of piecewise polynomial functions.     

Positive bound states of systems of nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We study the existence of positive bound states of non-autonomous systems of nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Both the singular case and the regular case are discussed. The proof is based on a nonlinear alternative principle of Leray–Schauder.     

A parametric spline scheme for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We develop a numerical method based on parametric adaptive quintic spline functions for solving the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. The truncation error is theoretically analyzed. Based on the von Neumann method and the linearization technique, stability analysis of the method is studied and the method is shown to be unconditionally stable. Two invariants of motion related to mass and momentum are calculated to determine the conservation properties of the problem. Finally, some numerical tests are presented to illustrate the method’s efficiency.     

Normalized solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We consider the problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}-\Delta u - g(u) = \lambda u,\\ u \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N), \int_{\mathbb{R}^N} u^2 = 1, \lambda \in \mathbb{R},\end{array}\right.$$ in dimension N ≥ 2. Here g is a superlinear, subcritical, possibly nonhomogeneous, odd nonlinearity. We deal with the case where the associated functional is not bounded below on the L ²-unit sphere, and we show the existence of infinitely many solutions.     

A semi-discrete scheme for the stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Summary. We study the convergence of a semi-discretized version of a numerical scheme for a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The nonlinear term is a power law and the noise is multiplicative with a Stratonovich product. Our scheme is implicit in the deterministic part of the equation as is usual for conservative equations. We also use an implicit discretization of the noise which is better suited to Stratonovich products. We consider a subcritical nonlinearity so that the energy can be used to obtain an a priori estimate. However, in the semi discrete case, no Ito formula is available and we have to use a discrete form of this tool. Also, in the course of the proof we need to introduce a cut-off of the diffusion coefficient, which allows to treat the nonlinearity. Then, we prove convergence by a compactness argument. Due to the presence of noise and to the implicit discretization of the noise, this is rather complicated and technical. We finally obtain convergence of the discrete solutions in various topologies. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):35Q55, 60H15, 65M06, 65M12     

Thick clusters for the radially symmetric nonlinear Schrödinger equation

This article is devoted to the study of radially symmetric solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

$\varepsilon^2 \Delta u - V(r)u + |u|^{p-1}u = 0\, {\rm in} B,\quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial n} = 0\, {\rm on}\,{\partial}B,$

where B is a ball in \({\mathbb{R}}^N\) , 1 <  p <  (N +  2)/(N ? 2), N ≥ 3 and the potential V is radially symmetric. We construct positive clustering solutions in an annulus having O(1/?) critical points, as well as sign changing solutions with O(1/?) zeroes concentrating near zero.

     

Initial boundary value problems for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

A new spectral method for solving initial boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear partial differential equations in two independent variables is applied to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and to its linearized version in the domain {x≥l(t), t≥0}. We show that there exist two cases: (a) if l″(t)<0, then the solution of the linear or nonlinear equations can be obtained by solving the respective scalar or matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem, which is defined on a time-dependent contour; (b) if l″(t)>0, then the Riemann-Hilbert problem is replaced by a respective scalar or matrix $\bar \partial $ problem on a time-independent domain. In both cases, the solution is expressed in a spectrally decomposed form.