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We study analytically the existence and uniqueness of the ground state of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) with a general power nonlinearity described by the power index $\sigma\ge0$. For the NLSE under a box or a harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Xinran Ruan

In the present work, we revisit the topic of translational eigenmodes in discrete models. We focus on the prototypical example of the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation, although the methodology presented is quite general. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-16 C. J. Lustri , P. G. Kevrekidis , S. J. Chapman

We present an introduction to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with concentrated nonlinearities in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Precisely, taking a cue from the linear problem, we sketch the main challenges and the typical difficulties that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 R Carlone , M Correggi , L Tentarelli

We consider the defocusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in several space dimensions, in the presence of an external potential depending on only one space vari-able. This potential is bounded from below, and may grow arbitrarily fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Rémi Carles , Clément Gallo

A class of non-local non-linear Schrodinger equations(NLSE) is considered in an external potential with space-time modulated coefficient of the nonlinear interaction term as well as confining and/or loss-gain terms. This is a generalization…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-20 Debdeep Sinha , Pijush K. Ghosh

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

From the mathematical side, nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations are usually investigated via variational methods, that cease to work in higher dimensions. This thesis tries to overcome this problem by focusing on spherically symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Filip Ficek

In this paper we will continue the analysis of two dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a fixed, pointwise, nonlinearity started in [2, 13]. In this model, the occurrence of a blow-up phenomenon has two peculiar features: the energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Riccardo Adami , Raffaele Carlone , Michele Correggi , Lorenzo Tentarelli

We study the spreading of initially localized states in a nonlinear disordered lattice described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with random on-site potentials - a nonlinear generalization of the Anderson model of localization. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Mulansky , A. Pikovsky

We consider a two-dimensional (2D) generalization of a recently proposed model [Phys. Rev. E 88, 032905 (2013)], which gives rise to bright discrete solitons supported by the defocusing nonlinearity whose local strength grows from the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , A. Saxena , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

We discuss the stability properties of the solutions of the general nonlinear \Schrodinger\ equation (NLSE) in 1+1 dimensions in an external potential derivable from a parity-time ($\PT$) symmetric superpotential $W(x)$ that we considered…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-06 John F. Dawson , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Bogdan Mihaila , Edward Arevalo , Ruomeng Lan , Andrew Comech , Avadh Saxena

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an exceptional potential. We obtain a sharp time decay for the global in time solution and we get the large time asymptotic profile of small solutions. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Ivan Naumkin

The time-independent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is solved for two attractive delta-function shaped potential wells where an imaginary loss term is added in one well, and a gain term of the same size but with opposite sign in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Holger Cartarius , Daniel Haag , Dennis Dast , Günter Wunner

We consider the two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with point interaction and we establish a local well-posedness theory, including blow-up alternative and continuous dependence on the initial data in the energy space. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Luigi Forcella , Vladimir Georgiev

We study the existence of nonnegative solutions (and ground states) to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with radial potentials and super-linear or sub-linear nonlinearities. The potentials satisfy power type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Michela Guida , Sergio Rolando

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

We consider the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation on a ring, with the cubic term, of either self-attractive or repulsive sign, confined to a narrow segment. This setting can be realized in optics and Bose-Einstein condensates. For the…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Elad Shamriz , Boris A. Malomed

Schr\"odinger equations with nonlinearities concentrated in some regions of space are good models of various physical situations and have interesting mathematical properties. We show that in the semiclassical limit it is possible to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Giovanni Jona-Lasinio , Carlo Presilla , Johannes Sjöstrand

We study the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation characterized by contrasting effects between the concentration at the origin of a critical Hardy potential and the intrinsic nonlocality of a Choquard nonlinearity. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Phuoc-Tai Nguyen , Tuan Dat Tran

The modified discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is used to study the formation of stationary localized states in a one-dimensional lattice with a single impurity and an asymmetric dimer impurity. A periodically modulated and a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Bikash C. Gupta , Sang Bub Lee