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This paper establishes new estimates for linear Schroedinger equations in R^3 with time-dependent potentials. Some of the results are new even in the time-independent case and all are shown to hold for potentials in scaling-critical,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Marius Beceanu

By expressing the time-independent Schrodinger equation in one dimension as a system of two first-order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-06-08 G. F. Torres del Castillo , I. Rubalcava Garcia

We study, for times of order 1/h, solutions of Maxwell's equations in an O(h^2) modulation of an h-periodic medium. The solutions are of slowly varying amplitude type built on Bloch plane waves with wavelength of order h. We construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Grégoire Allaire , Mariapia Palombaro , Jeffrey Rauch

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

The structure of time-dependent Gaussian solutions for the Kostin equation in dissipative quantum mechanics is analyzed. Expanding the generic external potential near the center of mass of the wave packet, one conclude that: the center of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Haas , J. M. F. Bassalo , D. G. da Silva , A. B. Nassar , M. Cattani

We build a smooth time-dependent real potential on the two-dimensional torus, decaying as time tends to infinity in Sobolev norms along with all its time derivative, and we exhibit a smooth solution to the associated Schr\"odinger equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Ambre Chabert

We prove some local smoothing estimates for the Schr\"{o}dinger initial value problem with data in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$, $d \geq 2$ and a general class of potentials. In the repulsive setting we have to assume just a power like decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-18 J. A. Bercelo , A. Ruiz , L. Vega , M. C. Vilela

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an exceptional potential. We obtain a sharp time decay for the global in time solution and we get the large time asymptotic profile of small solutions. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Ivan Naumkin

It is shown that the Schrodinger equation for a large family of pairs of two-dimensional quantum potentials possess wavefuctions for which the amplitude and the phase are interchangeable, producing two different solutions which are dual to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sergio A. Hojman , Felipe A. Asenjo

We study the existence and stability of the standing waves for the periodic cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect determined by a periodic Dirac distribution at the origin. This equation admits a smooth curve of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jaime Angulo , Gustavo Ponce

In this paper, we present a simple analytical method for obtaining a nonspreading solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, which is given by the Airy function. The solution is derived by imposing a restriction on the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-19 Tamoghna Majumdar , Maitraya Kanta Bhattacharyya , Kumble Rajesh Nayak

We prove continuity properties for the flow map associated to the defocusing energy-subcritical power-like nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation, when the power varies. We show local in time continuity in the energy space for any power, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Rémi Carles , Quentin Chauleur , Guillaume Ferriere

In a recent paper, general solutions for the vacuum wave functionals in the Schrodinger picture were given for a variety of classes of curved spacetimes. Here, we describe a number of simple examples which illustrate how the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. V. Long , G. M. Shore

Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Longhi , S. A. R. Horsley , G. Della Valle

We consider the propagation of wave packets for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, in the semi-classical limit. We establish the existence of a critical size for the initial data, in terms of the Planck constant: if the initial data are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Rémi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Roger J. Thelwell , John D. Carter , Bernard Deconinck

We consider time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equations for a free nonrelativistic particle on the three-dimensional $q$-deformed Euclidean space. We determine plane wave solutions to these Schr\"{o}dinger equations and show that they form a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Hartmut Wachter

We review some recent results obtained for the time evolution of wave packets for systems of equations of pseudo-differential type, including Schr{\"o}dinger ones, and discuss their application to the approximation of the associated unitary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Clotilde Kammerer , Caroline Lasser , Didier Robert

We consider the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a harmonic potential in the presence of two combined energy-subcritical power nonlinearities. We assume that the larger power is defocusing, and the smaller power is focusing. Such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Rémi Carles , Yavdat Ilyasov

We prove the existence of global solutions to the Cauchy problem for noncommutative nonlinear wave equations in arbitrary even spatial dimensions where the noncommutativity is only in the spatial directions. We find that for existence there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bergfinnur Durhuus , Thordur Jonsson