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A tunneling bounce driving the decay of a metastable vacuum must respect an integral constraint dictated by simple scaling arguments that is very useful to determine key properties of the bounce. After illustrating how this works in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 J. R. Espinosa

Quantum scattering by a one-dimensional odd potential proportional to the square of the distance to the origin is considered. The Schr\"odinger equation is solved exactly and explicit algebraic expressions of the wavefunction are given. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 Erasmo M. Ferreira , Javier Sesma

We discuss the effects of a (possibly) negative $(1+z)^6$ type contribution to the Friedmann equation. No definite answer can be given as to the presence and magnitude of a particular mechanism, because any test using the general relation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz Stachowiak , Marek Szydlowski

The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is discussed for a particle confined in half-space $x>0$ with a linear potential $V(x)=Kx$ in the following situations: (a) sudden removal of the wall and switching on the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 S. V. Mousavi

Explicit solutions are obtained for a class of semilinear radial Schrodinger equations with power nonlinearities in multi-dimensions. These solutions include new similarity solutions and other new group-invariant solutions, as well as new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Stephen C. Anco , Wei Feng , Thomas Wolf

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

The goal of this paper is to construct an effective model for studying the asymptotic solution of the scattering problem of three one-dimensional quantum particles with finite (short-range) attractive pair potentials. The asymptotic nature…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Sergey B. Levin , Alexandr S. Bagmutov , Victor O. Toropov

We revisit the following fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation \begin{align}\label{1a} \varepsilon^{2s}(-\Delta)^su +Vu=u^{p-1},\,\,\,u>0,\ \ \ \mathrm{in}\ \R^N, \end{align} where $\varepsilon>0$ is a small parameter, $(-\Delta)^s$ denotes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yinbin Deng , Shuangjie Peng , Xian Yang

We investigate cosmological scenarios containing one canonical scalar field with an exponential potential in the context of bouncing models, where the bounce happens due to quantum cosmological effects. The only possible bouncing solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 Anna Paula Bacalhau , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti

In this paper, we study a class of fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation \begin{equation} \label{eq0} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &(-\Delta)^{s}u=\lambda u+a(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\\ &\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}|u|^{2}dx=c^{2},\ u\in H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{N}),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Xin Bao , Ying Lv , Zeng-Qi Ou

We extend the previous work about the cosmological solutions with bounce without modifications of gravity or introducing an extra scalar field. The main finding was that the bounce is possible in the initially contracting Universe filled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Wagno Cesar e Silva , Samuel W. P. Oliveira , Ilya L. Shapiro

In this paper, we establish a Paley-Wiener type uncertainty principle for Schr\"odinger equations with bounded electric and magnetic potentials, \begin{align*} i\partial_tu+\Delta_Au+V(t,x)u=0,\,\,u(0,x)=u_0(x), \end{align*} where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yilin Song , Ying Wang , Jiqiang Zheng , Ruihan Zhou

We explore simple but novel bouncing solutions of general relativity that avoid singularities. These solutions require curvature k=+1, and are supported by a negative cosmological term and matter with -1 < w < -1/3. In the case of moderate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-16 Peter W. Graham , Bart Horn , Shamit Kachru , Surjeet Rajendran , Gonzalo Torroba

We consider the total energy decay together with L^2-bound of the solution itself of the Cauchy problem for wave equations with a localized damping and a short-range potential. We treat it in the one dimensional Euclidean space R. We adopt…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Ryo Ikehata , Xiaoyan Li

In this paper we consider a class of fractional Schr\"odinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity. By using a minimization argument and a quantitative deformation Lemma, we prove the existence of a sign-changing solution.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Vincenzo Ambrosio , Teresa Isernia

It is well known that the water-wave problem with weak surface tension has small-amplitude line solitary-wave solutions which to leading order are described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The present paper contains an existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Mark D. Groves , Shu-Ming Sun , Erik Wahlén

We prove dispersive estimates for linear Schroedinger equations in two space dimensions. The potential is assumed to be real-valued with some polynomial decay (faster than a negative third power), and zero energy is assumed to be a regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Wilhelm Schlag

We derive a generalized zero-range pseudopotential applicable to all partial wave solutions to the Schroedinger equation based on a delta-shell potential in the limit that the shell radius approaches zero. This properly models all higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rene Stock , Andrew Silberfarb , Eric L. Bolda , Ivan H. Deutsch

We study a novel class of nonsingular time-symmetric cosmological bounces. In this class of four dimensional models the bounce is induced by a perfect fluid with a negative energy density. Metric perturbations are solved in an analytic way…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Finelli

According to classical GR, negative-energy (AdS) bubbles in the multiverse terminate in big crunch singularities. It has been conjectured, however, that the fundamental theory may resolve these singularities and replace them by non-singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Jaume Garriga , Alexander Vilenkin , Jun Zhang