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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 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 consider the problem of uniqueness of ground states of prescribed mass for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Energy with power nonlinearity on noncompact metric graphs. We first establish that the Lagrange multiplier appearing in the NLS…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Simone Dovetta , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

The excited states of a charged particle interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field and an external potential all decay, but such a particle should have a true ground state--one that minimizes the energy and satisfies the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcel Griesemer , Elliott H. Lieb , Michael Loss

On a star graph made of $N \geq 3$ halflines (edges) we consider a Schr\"odinger equation with a subcritical power-type nonlinearity and an attractive delta interaction located at the vertex. From previous works it is known that there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Riccardo Adami , Claudio Cacciapuoti , Domenico Finco , Diego Noja

In this manuscript, we shall investigate the Nonlinear Magnetic Schr\"odinger Equation on noncompact metric graphs, focusing on the existence of ground states. We prove that the magnetic Hamiltonian is variationally equivalent to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Nicolò Cangiotti , Ivan Gallo , David Spitzkopf

We consider a generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a power nonlinearity |\psi|^2\mu\psi, of focusing type, describing propagation on the ramified structure given by N edges connected at a vertex (a star graph). To model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Riccardo Adami , Claudio Cacciapuoti , Domenico Finco , Diego Noja

We review some recent results on the minimization of the energy associated to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation on non-compact graphs. Starting from seminal results given by the author together with C. Cacciapuoti, D. Finco, and D. Noja…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Riccardo Adami

We consider ground states of the $N$ coupled fermionic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger systems with the Coulomb potential $V(x)$ in the $L^2$-subcritical case. By studying the associated constraint variational problem, we prove the existence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Bin Chen , Yujin Guo

We compare ground states for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on metric graphs, defined as global minimizers of the action functional constrained on the Nehari manifold, and least action solutions, namely minimizers of the action among…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Colette De Coster , Simone Dovetta , Damien Galant , Enrico Serra

We investigate the existence of ground states at prescribed mass on general metric graphs with half-lines for focusing doubly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations involving both a standard power nonlinearity and delta nonlinearities located at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Filippo Boni , Simone Dovetta

We study the existence of ground states for the coupled Schr\"odinger system \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} \displaystyle -\Delta u_i+\lambda_i u_i= \mu_i |u_i|^{2q-2}u_i+\sum_{j\neq i}b_{ij} |u_j|^q|u_i|^{q-2}u_i \\ u_i\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Filipe Oliveira , Hugo Tavares

The paper aims at giving a first insight on the existence/nonexistence of ground states for the $L^2$-critical NLS equation on metric graphs with localized nonlinearity. In particular, we focus on the tadpole graph, which, albeit being a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Simone Dovetta , Lorenzo Tentarelli

Nonlinear dynamics on graphs has rapidly become a topical issue with many physical applications, ranging from nonlinear optics to Bose-Einstein condensation. Whenever in a physical experiment a ramified structure is involved, it can prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Riccardo Adami , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

We investigate the existence and the properties of normalized ground states of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a quantum hybrid formed by two planes connected at a point. The nonlinearities are of power type and $L^2$-subcritical,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Filippo Boni , Raffaele Carlone , Ilenia Di Giorgio

We investigate the ground state of a system of interacting particles in small nonlinear lattices with M > 2 sites, using as a prototypical example the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation that has been recently used extensively in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Buonsante , P. Kevrekidis , V. Penna , A. Vezzani

As an application of the finite-rank Lieb-Thirring inequality established in [R. L. Frank, D. Gontier and M. Lewin, Comm. Math. Phys., 2021], we study ground states of mass-critical N-coupled Fermi nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger systems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Yujin Guo , Yan Li , Shuang Wu

We investigate the existence of ground states for the subcritical NLS energy on metric graphs. In particular, we find out a topological assumption that guarantees the nonexistence of ground states, and give an example in which the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Riccardo Adami , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

In this work, we construct and quantify asymptotically in the limit of large mass a variety of edge-localized stationary states of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a quantum graph. The method is applicable to general bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Gregory Berkolaiko , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We investigate the ground states for the focusing, subcritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect in dimension two, defined as the minimizers of the energy functional at fixed mass. We prove that ground states exist for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Riccardo Adami , Filippo Boni , Raffaele Carlone , Lorenzo Tentarelli