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The nonlinear Schroedinger equation has several families of quasi-periodic travelling waves, each of which can be parametrized up to symmetries by two real numbers: the period of the modulus of the wave profile, and the variation of its…

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We present trapped solitary wave solutions of a coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger system in $1$+$1$ dimensions in the presence of an external, supersymmetric and complex $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential. The Schr\"odinger system this work…

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Using analogs of familiar image methods in electrostatics and optics, we show how to construct closed form wave packet solutions of the two-dimensional free-particle Schrodinger equation in geometries restricted by two infinite wall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. W. Robinett

We prove a dispersive estimate for the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation, mapping between weighted $L^p$ spaces with stronger time-decay ($t^{-3/2}$ versus $t^{-1/2}$) than is possible on unweighted spaces. To satisfy this bound, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Michael Goldberg

Using Gaussian wave packet solutions, we examine how the kinetic energy is distributed in time-dependent solutions of the Schrodinger equation corresponding to the cases of a free particle, a particle undergoing uniform acceleration, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. Robinett , L. C. Bassett

We study the asymptotics of the Schr\"odinger equation with time-dependent potential in dimension one. Assuming that the potential decays sufficiently rapidly as $|x| \to \infty$, we prove that the solution can be written as the sum of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Gavin Stewart , Avy Soffer

We investigate potential scattering and tunneling dynamics of a particle wavepacket evolving according to the relativistic Schr\"odinger equation (also known as the Salpeter equation). The tunneling properties of the Salpeter equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 F. Daem , A. Matzkin

We present some physically interesting, in general non-stationary, one-dimensional solutions to the nonlinear phase modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation proposed recently. The solutions include a coherent state, a phase-modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Waldemar Puszkarz

We investigate wavepacket dynamics for a relativistic particle in a box evolving according to the relativistic Schr\"odinger (also known as the Salpeter) equation. We derive the solutions for an infinite well -- which contrary to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Benoît Zumer , Florent Daem , Alexandre Matzkin

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

We consider the initial-value problem for the one-dimensional, time-dependent wave equation with positive, Lipschitz continuous coefficients, which are constant outside a bounded region. Under the assumption of compact support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

We consider the propagation of wave packets for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, with a matrix-valued potential, in the semi-classical limit. For a matrix-valued potential, Strichartz estimates are available under long range assumptions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Lysianne Hari

Using a density matrix description in space we study the evolution of wavepackets in a fluctuating space-time background. We assume that space-time fluctuations manifest as classical fluctuations of the metric. From the non-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 E. Göklü , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Camacho , A. Macias

We rigorously study the long time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in {\it time-dependent} external potentials. To set the stage, we first establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Walid K. Abou Salem

We present an exact three-dimensional wave solution to the shearing sheet equations of motion. The existence of this solution argues against transient amplification as a route to turbulence in unmagnetized disks. Moreover, because the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven A. Balbus , John F. Hawley

In this paper, we study the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation within the formalism of position dependent effective mass. For a generalized decomposition of the non-central effective potential, the deformed Schr\"odinger equation can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 M. Chabab , A. El Batoul , H. Hassanabadi , M. Oulne , S. Zare

We consider time-dependent Schroedinger equations in one dimension with double well potential and an external nonlinear perturbation. If the initial state belongs to the eigenspace spanned by the eigenvectors associated to the two lowest…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Sacchetti

The aim of the article to clarify the status of Shapiro plane wave solutions of the Schr\"odinger's equation in the frames of the well-known general method of separation of variables. To solve this task, we use the well-known cylindrical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 E. M. Ovsiyuk , N. G. Tokarevskaya , V. M. Red'kov

The notion of traveling wave, which typically refers to some particular spatio-temporal con- nections between two stationary states (typically, entire solutions keeping the same profile's shape through time), is essential in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Thomas Giletti

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…

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