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Bifurcation and stability for Nonlinear Schroedinger equations with double well potential in the semiclassical limit

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

We consider the stationary solutions for a class of Schroedinger equations with a symmetric double-well potential and a nonlinear perturbation. Here, in the semiclassical limit we prove that the reduction to a finite-mode approximation give the stationary solutions, up to an exponentially small term, and that symmetry-breaking bifurcation occurs at a given value for the strength of the nonlinear term. The kind of bifurcation picture only depends on the non-linearity power. We then discuss the stability/instability properties of each branch of the stationary solutions. Finally, we consider an explicit one-dimensional toy model where the double well potential is given by means of a couple of attractive Dirac's delta pointwise interactions.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1511,
  title  = {Bifurcation and stability for Nonlinear Schroedinger equations with double well potential in the semiclassical limit},
  author = {Reika Fukuizumi and Andrea Sacchetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1511},
  year   = {2015}
}

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46 pages, 4 figures