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New inverse and half-inverse problems: {\it sliding problems} are introduced. In this way several physically important equations are recovered from the quantum defect. In particular, sliding problems are solved for radial Schr\"odinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 Lev Sakhnovich

We study the relativistic version of Schr\"odinger equation for a point particle in 1-d with potential of the first derivative of the delta function. The momentum cutoff regularization is used to study the bound state and scattering states.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 M. H. Al-Hashimi , A. M. Shalaby

In this paper, we investigate the revivals of the one-dimensional periodic Schr\"odinger equation with a piecewise $C^2$ potential function. As has been observed through numerical simulations of the equation with various initial data and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Dinh-Quan Tran , Peter J. Olver

The tunneling potential formalism, an alternative to the standard Coleman Euclidean approach, offers in a natural way a unified view of vacuum decays. In particular, I show in this talk how Coleman's bounce is just a member of a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-17 J. R. Espinosa

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with repulsive inverse-power potentials \[ i \partial_t u + \Delta u - c |x|^{-\sigma} u = \pm |u|^\alpha u, \quad c>0. \] We study the local and global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Van Duong Dinh

We present a general numerical method for computing precisely the false vacuum decay rate, including the prefactor due to quantum fluctuations about the classical bounce solution, in a self-interacting scalar field theory modeling the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerald V. Dunne , Hyunsoo Min

We derive an effective equation for the dynamics of many identical bosons in dimension one in the presence of a tiny impurity. The interaction between every pair of bosons is mediated by the impurity through a positive three-body potential.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Riccardo Adami , Jinyeop Lee

A new approach to find exact solutions to one--dimensional quantum mechanical systems is devised. The scheme is based on the introduction of a potential function for the wavefunction, and the equation it satisfies. We recover known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Sergio A. Hojman , Felipe A. Asenjo

We study the problem of false vacuum decay in arbitrary dimensions, in the presence of gravity, and compute the transition probability within the thin-wall approximation, generalising the results of Coleman and de Luccia. In the particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Ignatios Antoniadis , Daniele Bielli , Auttakit Chatrabhuti , Hiroshi Isono

We provide an analytical solution to the quantum dynamics of a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre- Robertson-Walker model with a massless scalar field in the presence of a small and positive cosmological constant, in the context of Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Mercedes Martín-Benito , Rita B. Neves

Motivated by the recent work of Chigusa, Moroi, and Shoji, we propose a new simple gradient flow equation to derive the bounce solution which contributes to the decay of the false vacuum. Our discussion utilizes the discussion of Coleman,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Ryosuke Sato

In this paper, we investigate positive radial solutions to double-power nonlinear stationary Schrodinger equations in three space dimensions. It is now known that the non-uniqueness of H^{1}-positive solutions can occur in three dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Takafumi Akahori , Slim Ibrahim , Hiroaki Kikuchi , Masataka Shibata , Juncheng Wei

We study the large-time behavior of the solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation associated with a quickly decaying potential in dimension three. We establish the resolvent expansions at threshold zero and near positive resonances. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Maha Aafarani

Using the integral representations of the solutions of Schr\"odinger equation, which are the essential ingredients of the Gel'fand-Levitan and Marchenko integral equations of inverse scattering theory, we obtain a general theorem on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-28 Khosrow Chadan

In this paper, we study a class of fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equations involving logarithmic and critical nonlinearities on an unbounded domain, and show that such an equation with positive or sign-changing weight potentials admits at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Haining Fan , Zhaosheng Feng , Xingjie Yan

We develop a new real-time approach to vacuum decay based on a reduction to a finite number of degrees of freedom. The dynamics is followed by solving a generalized Schr\"odinger equation. We first apply this method to a real scalar field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Florent Michel

In this paper, the space-fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equations with singular potentials are studied. Delta-like or even higher-order singularities are allowed. By using the regularising techniques, we introduce a family of 'weakened'…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Arshyn Altybay , Michael Ruzhansky , Mohammed Elamine Sebih , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

We consider the possibility to produce a bouncing universe in the framework of scalar-tensor gravity models in which the scalar field potential may be negative, and even unbounded from below. We find a set of viable solutions with nonzero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-15 B. Boisseau , H. Giacomini , D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

We investigate the existence of black bounce solutions in $2+1$ dimensions within the framework of $f(R)$ gravity. We analyze whether black bounce geometries originally obtained in general relativity can be consistently generalized to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Marcos V. de S. Silva , Manuel E. Rodrigues , C. F. S. Pereira

We study the Dirichlet problem for the stationary Schr\"odinger fractional Laplacian equation $(-\Delta)^s u + V u = f$ posed in bounded domain $ \Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ with zero outside conditions. We consider general nonnegative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jesús Ildefonso Díaz , David Gómez-Castro , Juan Luis Vázquez