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We describe the boundary conditions at the vertex that one must choose to obtain a dynamical system that best describes the low-energy part of the evolution of a quantum system confined to a very small neighbourhood of a star-shaped metric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 GianFausto Dell'Antonio , Emanuele Costa

We study the existence and qualitative properties of action ground-states (that is, bound-states with minimal action) {of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation} over single-knot metric graphs -- which are made of half-lines, loops and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Francisco Agostinho , Simão Correia , Hugo Tavares

We study the properties of the ground state of Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and show that it experiences a strong localization on the spatial region where the interactions vanish. At the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Rosa Pardo

The purpose of this paper is to prove some results on the absence of bound states for certain nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on noncompact metric graphs with localized nonlinearity. In particular, we show how the topological and metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Enrico Serra , Lorenzo Tentarelli

We investigate the existence of multiple bound states of prescribed mass for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a noncompact metric graph. The main feature is that the nonlinearity is localized only in a compact part of the graph. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Enrico Serra , Lorenzo Tentarelli

We consider stationary waves on nonlinear quantum star graphs, i.e. solutions to the stationary (cubic) nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a metric star graph with Kirchhoff matching conditions at the centre. We prove the existence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Ram Band , Sven Gnutzmann , August J. Krueger

We address the question of convergence of Schr\"odinger operators on metric graphs with general self-adjoint vertex conditions as lengths of some of graph's edges shrink to zero. We determine the limiting operator and study convergence in a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Gregory Berkolaiko , Yuri Latushkin , Selim Sukhtaiev

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

In the present paper an introduction to the new subject of nonlinear dispersive hamiltonian equations on graphs is given. The focus is on recently established properties of solutions in the case of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Special…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Diego Noja

Soliton transport in tube-like networks is studied by solving the nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) on finite thickness ("fat") graphs. The dependence of the solution and of the reflection at vertices on the graph thickness and on the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Hannes Uecker , Daniel Grieser , Zarif Sobirov , Doniyor Babajanov , Davron Matrasulov

We analytically study nonlinear quasi-monochromatic plasma waves in a two-dimensional electron system set between the two metal electrodes (gates). We derive a nonlinear Schrodinger equation for a slow-varying envelope to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 A. A. Zabolotnykh

We investigate the existence of normalized ground states for Schr\"odinger equations on noncompact metric graphs in presence of nonlinear point defects, described by nonlinear $\delta$-interactions at some of the vertices of the graph. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Filippo Boni , Simone Dovetta , Enrico Serra

We consider PT-symmetric, discrete nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on metric graphs. Soliton solutions are obtained for simplest graph topologies, such as star and tree graphs. Integrability of the problem is shown by proving…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-12-14 M. Akramov , F. Khashimova , D. Matrasulov

We study the orbital stability of action ground-states of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation over two particular cases of metric graphs, the $\mathcal{T}$ and the tadpole graphs. We show the existence of stability transitions near the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Francisco Agostinho , Simão Correia , Hugo Tavares

We consider the real eigenfunctions of the Schr\"odinger operator on graphs, and count their nodal domains. The number of nodal domains fluctuates within an interval whose size equals the number of bonds $B$. For well connected graphs, with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sven Gnutzmann , Uzy Smilansky , Joachim Weber

We consider exact and asymptotic solutions of the stationary cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) on metric graphs. We focus on some basic example graphs. The asymptotic solutions are obtained using the canonical perturbation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-22 Sven Gnutzmann , Daniel Waltner

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation, or more generally the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, models the Bose-Einstein condensates in a macroscopic gaseous superfluid wave-matter state in ultra-cold temperature. We provide analytical study of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Luigi Galati , Shijun Zheng

We investigate the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a three-edge star graph, where each edge contains a linear localized inhomogeneity in the form of a Dirac delta linear potential. Such systems are of significant interest in studying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-03 Rahmi Rusin , Hadi Susanto

In this work, we investigate the existence and orbital (in)stability of several branches of standing--wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping--edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Muñoz

We propose an adaptive approach in picking the wave-number parameter of absorbing boundary conditions for Schr\"{o}dinger-type equations. Based on the Gabor transform which captures local frequency information in the vicinity of artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Zhenli Xu , Houde Han , Xiaonan Wu