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The nonlinear Schroedinger model is a prototypical dispersive wave equation that features finite time blowup, either for supercritical exponents (for fixed dimension) or for supercritical dimensions (for fixed nonlinearity exponent). Upon…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-20 S. J. Chapman , M. E. Kavousanakis , E. G. Charalampidis , I. G. Kevrekidis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider the dispersion managed nonlinear Schr\"dinger equations with quintic and cubic nonlinearities in one and two dimensions, respectively. We prove the global well-posedness and scattering in $L_x^2$ for small initial data employing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Mi-Ran Choi , Kiyeon Lee , Young-Ran Lee

Atomic and molecular breakup reactions, such as multiple-ionisation, are described by a driven Schr\"odinger equation. This equation is equivalent to a high-dimensional Helmholtz equation and it has solutions that are outgoing waves,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Jacob Snoeijer , Wim Vanroose

The scattering of wave packets from a single slit and a double slit with the Schr\"odinger equation, is studied numerically and theoretically. The phenomenon of diffraction of wave packets in space and time in the backward region,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Kälbermann

The propagation of a wave-packet in a nonlinear disordered medium exhibits interesting dynamics. Here, we present an analysis based on the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (Gross-Pitaevskii equation). This problem is directly connected to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-07 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

We consider the cubic defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in one dimension with the nonlinearity concentrated at a single point. We prove global well-posedness in the scaling-critical space $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ and scattering for all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths , Rowan Killip , Monica Visan

${\mathcal PT}-$symmetric dimers with a time-periodic gain/loss function in a balanced configuration where the amount of gain equals that of loss are investigated analytically and numerically. Two prototypical dimers in the linear regime…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-19 Demetra Psiachos , Nikos Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

The master equation describing non-equilibrium one-dimensional problems like diffusion limited reactions or critical dynamics of classical spin systems can be written as a Schr\"odinger equation in which the wave function is the probability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Michel Droz , Malte Henkel , Vladimir Rittenberg

In the present work, we consider a prototypical example of a PT-symmetric Dirac model. We discuss the underlying linear limit of the model and identify the threshold of the PT-phase transition in an analytical form. We then focus on the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-05 Jesús Cuevas--Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Andrew Comech , Carl M. Bender

We analyze the scattering of linear internal waves in a two dimensional channel with subcritical bottom topography. We construct the scattering matrix for the internal wave problem in a channel with straight ends, mapping incoming data to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Zhenhao Li , Jian Wang , Jared Wunsch

The aim of the lecture is to briefly describe the mathematical background of scattering theory for two- and three-particle quantum systems. We discuss basic objects of the theory: wave and scattering operators and the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Dmitri Yafaev

We generalize a finite parity-time (${\cal PT}$-) symmetric network of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger type and obtain general results on linear stability of the zero equilibrium, on the nonlinear dynamics of the dimer model, as well…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-02-14 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

The Ablowitz-Ladik chain is an integrable discretized version of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We report on a novel underlying Hamiltonian particle system with properties similar to the ones known for the classical Toda chain and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-26 Alberto Brollo , Herbert Spohn

We investigate for a large class of nonlinear wave equations, which allow for shock wave formations, how these solutions behave when they are PT-symmetrically deformed. For real solutions we find that they are transformed into peaked…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Andrea Cavaglia , Andreas Fring

Scattering of a time harmonic anti-plane shear wave due to either a pair of crack tips or a pair of rigid constraint tips on square lattice is considered. The two problems correspond to the so called zero-offset case of scattering due to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Basant Lal Sharma , Gaurav Maurya

We consider a simple model of lossless interaction between a two-level single atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field which creates a one-dimensional optical lattice. Internal dynamics of the atom is governed by the laser field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 V. Yu. Argonov , S. V. Prants

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning scattering and non-scattering in the context of the linear Helmholtz equation and inhomogeneities of nontrivial contrast. We examine isotropic as well as anisotropic media. Part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fioralba Cakoni , Michael S. Vogelius

We consider the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in space dimension up to three. The cubic nonlinearity is thereby focusing while the quintic one is defocusing, ensuring global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Rémi Carles , Christof Sparber

Nonlinear dynamics of wave packets in PT-symmetric optical lattices near the phase-transition point are analytically studied. A nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation is derived for the envelope of these wave packets. A variety of novel phenomena…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sean Nixon , Yi Zhu , Jianke Yang

One-dimensional scattering problem admitting a complex, PT-symmetric short-range potential V(x) is considered. Using a Runge-Kutta-discretized version of Schroedinger equation we derive the formulae for the reflection and transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil