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We investigate the dynamics of one-dimensional interacting bosons in an optical lattice after a sudden quench in the Bose-Hubbard (BH) and sine-Gordon (SG) regimes. While in higher dimension, the Mott-superfluid phase transition is observed…
Stochastic differential equations in Hilbert space as random nonlinear modified Schroedinger equations have achieved great attention in recent years; of particular interest is the long time behavior of their solutions. In this note we…
The study of nonlinear waves that collapse in finite time is a theme of universal interest, e.g. within optical, atomic, plasma physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Here we revisit the quintessential example of the nonlinear Schrodinger…
We consider the evolution of a gas of $N$ bosons in the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii regime (in which particles are initially trapped in a volume of order one and interact through a repulsive potential with scattering length of the…
We study the temporal evolution of a small number $N$ of ultra-cold bosonic atoms confined in a ring potential. Assuming that initially the system is in a solitary-wave solution of the corresponding mean-field problem, we identify…
We consider the nonlinear wave equation $i \partial_t u= \sqrt{-\Delta + m^2} u - (|x|^{-1} \ast |u|^2) u$ on $\RR^3$ modelling the dynamics of (pseudo-relativistic) boson stars. For spherically symmetric initial data, $u_0(x) \in…
The effective dynamics of solitons for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in a random potential is rigorously studied. It is shown that when the external potential varies slowly in space compared to the size of the soliton,…
A model is discussed where all operators are constructed from a quantum scalar field whose energy spectrum takes on all real values. The Schr\"odinger picture wave function depends upon space and time coordinates for each particle, as well…
The evolution of Bose-Einstein condensates is amply described by the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii mean-field theory which assumes all bosons to reside in a single time-dependent one-particle state throughout the propagation process. In…
The mean-field limit for the dynamics of bosons with random interactions is rigorously studied. It is shown that, for interactions that are almost-surely bounded, the many-body quantum evolution can be replaced in the mean-field limit by a…
The investigation of the nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of bosonic many-body systems is very challenging due to the excessively growing Hilbert space and poses a major problem for their theoretical description and simulation. We present a…
We study the norm approximation to the Schr\"odinger dynamics of $N$ bosons in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=1,2$) with an interaction potential of the form $N^{d\beta-1}w(N^{\beta}(x-y))$. Here we are interested in the focusing case $w\le 0$.…
Collapse of the wave function appears to violate the quantum superposition principle as well as deterministic evolution. Objective collapse models propose a dynamical explanation for this phenomenon, by making a stochastic non-unitary and…
We study the quantum evolution of many-body Fermi gases in three dimensions, in arbitrarily large domains. We consider both particles with non-relativistic and with relativistic dispersion. We focus on the high-density regime, in the…
We consider the dynamics of $N$ interacting bosons initially exhibiting Bose-Einstein condensation. Due to an external trapping potential, the bosons are strongly confined in two spatial directions, with the transverse extension of the trap…
We study stable blow-up dynamics in the generalized Hartree equation with radial symmetry, a Schr\"odinger-type equation with a nonlocal, convolution-type nonlinearity: $iu_t+\Delta u +\left(|x|^{-(d-2)} \ast |u|^{p} \right) |u|^{p-2}u = 0,…
We consider a system of $N$ bosons in three dimensions interacting through a mean-field Coulomb potential in an external magnetic field. For initially factorized states we show that the one-particle density matrix associated with the…
In this paper, we study the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with exponential nonlinearities \[ i \partial_t u + \Delta u = - \left(e^{4\pi |u|^2} - 1 - 4\pi \mu |u|^2 \right) u, \quad u(0) = u_0 \in H^1, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}…
We discuss spatial dynamics and collapse scenarios of localized waves governed by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with nonlocal nonlinearity. Firstly, we prove that for arbitrary nonsingular attractive nonlocal nonlinear interaction…
Understanding non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems is one of the most challenging problems in modern theoretical physics. While numerous approximate and exact solutions exist for systems in equilibrium, examples of…