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We consider perturbations of the semiclassical Schr{\"o}dinger equation on a compact Riemannian surface with constant negative curvature and without boundary. We show that, for scales of times which are logarithmic in the size of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Gabriel Riviere

We introduce a semiclassical quantization method which is based on a stroboscopic description of the classical and the quantum flows. We show that this approach emerges naturally when one is interested in extracting the energy spectrum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruno Eckhardt , Uzy Smilansky

Using a generalized transfer matrix method we exactly solve the Schr\"odinger equation in a time periodic potential, with discretized Euclidean space-time. The ground state wave function propagates in space and time with an oscillating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefano Galluccio , Yi-Cheng Zhang

We establish soliton-like asymptotics for finite energy solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation coupled to a nonrelativistic classical particle. Any solution with initial state close to the solitary manifold, converges to a sum of traveling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Alexander Komech , Elena Kopylova

We consider travelling periodical and quasiperiodical waves in single mode fibres, with weak birefringence and under the action of cross-phase modulation. The problem is reduced to the ``1:2:1" integrable case of the two-particle quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 P L Christiansen , J C Eilbeck , V Z Enolskii , N A Kostov

This paper is devoted to the homogenization of Shr\"odinger type equations with periodically oscillating coefficients of the diffusion term, and a rapidly oscillating periodic time-dependent potential. One convergence theorem is proved and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Lazarus Signing

We consider systems of weakly coupled Schr\"odinger equations with nonconstant potentials and we investigate the existence of nontrivial nonnegative solutions which concentrate around local minima of the potentials. We obtain sufficient and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-25 Eugenio Montefusco , Benedetta Pellacci , Marco Squassina

We study the solutions of linear Schroedinger equations in which the potential energy is a periodic function of time and is sufficiently localized in space. We consider the potential to be close to one that is time periodic and yet…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-31 P. D. Miller , A. Soffer , M. I. Weinstein

We consider the semiclassical limit for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We introduce a phase/amplitude representation given by a system similar to the hydrodynamical formulation, whose novelty consists in including some asymptotically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Christophe Besse , Rémi Carles , Florian Méhats

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

In this paper we investigate the emergence of time-periodic and and time-quasiperiodic (sometimes infinitely long lived and sometimes very long lived or metastable) solutions of discrete nonlinear wave equations: discrete sine Gordon,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. I. Weinstein

In this paper we consider a family of time-dependent 1-dimensional cubic Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with periodic potential. Exploiting semiclassical scaling and multiscale analysis, we derive an effective nonlinear Dirac equation, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Elena Danesi

The time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for atomic hydrogen in few-cycle laser pulses is solved numerically. Introducing a positive definite quantum distribution function in energy-position space, a straightforward comparison of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Bauer

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Thierry Gallay , Mariana Haragus

In this article we study limits of Wigner distributions (the so-called semiclassical measures) corresponding to sequences of solutions to the semiclassical Schroedinger equation at times scales $\alpha_{h}$ tending to infinity as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-06 Fabricio Macia

A new solvable hyperbolic single wave potential is found by expanding the regular solution of the 1D Schr\"odinger equation in terms of square integrable basis. The main characteristic of the basis is in supporting an infinite tridiagonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Bahlouli , A. D. Alhaidari

We derive a general upper bound on the spreading rate of wavepackets in the framework of Schr\"odinger time evolution. Our result consists of showing that a portion of the wavepacket cannot escape outside a ball whose size grows dynamically…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Killip , A. Kiselev , Y. Last

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 consider wave propagation and scattering governed by one dimensional Schrodinger operators with truncated periodic potentials. The propagation of wave packets with narrow frequency supports is studied. The goal is to describe potentials…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-04-04 S. Molchanov , B. Vainberg

Schr\"odinger equations with time-dependent potentials are of central importance in quantum physics and theoretical chemistry, where they aid in the simulation and design of systems and processes at atomic scales. Numerical approximation of…

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