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This paper explores the existence and properties of ground states, including both energy and action ground states, for nonlinear Dirac equations with power-type potentials. \begin{equation*} -i c\sum\limits_{k=1}^3\alpha_k\partial_k u +mc^2…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Pan Chen , Yanheng Ding , Qi Guo

We consider the asymptotic behavior in time of solutions to the cubic nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with repulsive delta potential (delta-NLS). We shall prove that for a given asymptotic profile, there exists a solution to (delta-NLS)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Jun-ichi Segata

We study the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on noncompact metric graphs under general self-adjoint vertex conditions ensuring the existence of a negative eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian operator. First, we focus on the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Élio Durand-Simonnet , Damien Galant , Boris Shakarov

We consider the 1D nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with focusing \emph{point nonlinearity}, $$i\partial_t\psi + \partial_x^2\psi + \delta|\psi|^{p-1}\psi = 0$$ where $\delta=\delta(x)$ is the delta function supported at the origin.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Justin Holmer , Chang Liu

We investigate the relations between normalized critical points of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger energy functional and critical points of the corresponding action functional on the associated Nehari manifold. Our first general result is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Simone Dovetta , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

We consider in the whole plane the Hamiltonian coupling of semilinear Schroedinger equations which have critical growth in the sense of Moser. We prove that the (nonempty) set S of ground state solutions is compact up to translations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Daniele Cassani , Jianjun Zhang

We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta'_s$ coupling of intensity $\beta\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0\}$ on the star graph $\Gamma$ consisting of $N$ half-lines. The nonlinearity has the form $g(u)=|u|^{p-1}u, p>1.$ In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Nataliia Goloshchapova

All stationary solutions to the one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation under box and periodic boundary conditions are presented in analytic form. We consider the case of repulsive nonlinearity; in a companion paper we treat the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , Charles W. Clark , William P. Reinhardt

We investigate the existence and stability of ground states for the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on non-compact metric graphs. We establish a sharp criterion for the existence of action ground states in terms of the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Élio Durand-Simonnet , Boris Shakarov

In this work, we study the existence of various classes of standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system with quadratic interaction, along with a harmonic or partially harmonic potential. We establish the existence of ground-state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vicente Alvarez , Amin Esfahani

In this paper, a class of Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson system involving multiple competing potentials and critical Sobolev exponent is considered. Such a problem cannot be studied with the same argument of the nonlinear term with only a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Lingzheng Kong , Haibo Chen

We investigate a class of nonlinear equations of Schr\"odinger type with competing inhomogeneous nonlinearities in the non-radial inter-critical regime, \begin{align*} i \partial_t u +\Delta u &=|x|^{-b_1} |u|^{p_1-2} u - |x|^{-b_2}…

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We solve the continuous one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the case of an inverted {\em nonlinear} delta-function potential located at the origin, obtaining the bound state in closed form as a function of the nonlinear exponent.…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-07 M. I. Molina , C. A. Bustamante

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

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

We study the following elliptic system with critical exponent: \begin{displaymath} \begin{cases}-\Delta u_j-\frac{\lambda_j}{|x|^2}u_j=u_j^{2^*-1}+\sum\limits_{k\neq j}\beta_{jk}\alpha_{jk}u_j^{\alpha_{jk}-1}u_k^{\alpha_{kj}},\;\;x\in\R^N,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Senping Luo , Wenming Zou

In this paper we prove the existence, regularity and symmetry of a ground state for a nonlinear equation in the whole space, involving a pseudo-relativistic Schr\"odinger operator.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Vincenzo Ambrosio

We explicitly give all stationary solutions to the focusing cubic NLS on the line, in the presence of a defect of the type Dirac's delta or delta prime. The models proves interesting for two features: first, they are exactly solvable and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Riccardo Adami , Diego Noja

The stationary nonlinear Schroedinger equation, or Gross-Pitaevskii equation, is studied for the cases of a single delta potential and a delta-shell potential. These model systems allow analytical solutions, and thus provide useful insight…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Witthaut , S. Mossmann , H. J. Korsch