Related papers: Divergence-free WKB method
The defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is studied for a family of step-like initial data with piecewise constant amplitude and phase velocity with a single jump discontinuity at the origin. Riemann-Hilbert and steepest…
Higher-order WKB methods are used to investigate the border between the solvable and insolvable portions of the spectrum of quasi-exactly solvable quantum-mechanical potentials. The analysis reveals scaling and factorization properties that…
This paper introduces filtered finite difference methods for numerically solving a dispersive evolution equation with solutions that are highly oscillatory in both space and time. We consider a semiclassically scaled nonlinear Schr\"odinger…
We study the bi-Laplacian Schr\"odinger equation with a general interaction term, which may be linear or nonlinear and is allowed to be time-dependent. We show that global solutions to such equations decompose asymptotically into a free…
A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on a periodic box can be discretized as a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on a periodic cubic lattice, which is a system of finitely many ordinary differential equations. We show…
We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for exact WKB solutions of general singularly perturbed linear second-order ODEs in the complex domain. These include the one-dimensional time-independent complex Schr\"odinger equation. Notably,…
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…
We review our recent work leading to steady-state solutions of the semiclassical (Maxwell-Bloch) equations of a laser. These are coupled non-linear partial differential equations in space and time which have previously been solved either by…
We formulate a damped oscillating particle method to solve the stationary nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE). The ground state solutions are found by a converging damped oscillating evolution equation that can be discretized with…
In the context of complex WKB analysis, we discuss a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation $ -h^2\partial_x^2 f(x,h) + [Q(x)+hQ_1(x,h)]f(x,h) =0, \ \ \ h\to 0, $ where $Q(x)$, $Q_1(x,h)$ are analytic near the origin $x=0$, $Q(0)=0$, and…
We consider the quadratic derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (dNLS) on the circle. In particular, we develop an infinite iteration scheme of normal form reductions for dNLS. By combining this normal form procedure with the…
The properties of relativistic particles in the quasiclassical region are investigated. The relativistic semiclassical wave equation appropriate in the quasiclassical region is derived. It is shown that the leading-order WKB quantization…
The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) is a fundamental model that describes diverse complex phenomena in nature. However, simulating the NLSE on a quantum computer is inherently challenging due to the presence of the nonlinear term.…
We propose a new approach to the Rayleigh-Schr\"{o}dinger perturbation expansions of bound states in quantum mechanics. We are inspired by the enormous flexibility of solvable interactions with several (N) discontinuities. Their standard…
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…
We derive a determinant formula for the WKB exponential of singularly perturbed Zakharov-Shabat system that corresponds to the semiclassical (zero dispersion) limit of the focusing Nonlinear Schr\" odinger equation. The derivation is based…
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…
In this note we use the normal forms of the completely resonant non--linear Schr\"odinger equation on a torus (NLS) derived in previous work in order to produce, under a KAM algorithm, large families of stable and unstable quasi periodic…
From among the waves whose dynamics are governed by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, we find a robust, spatiotemporally disordered family, in which waves initialized with increasing amplitudes, on average, over long time scales,…
We numerically compute eigenvalues of the non-self-adjoint Zakharov--Shabat problem in the semiclassical regime. In particular, we compute the eigenvalues for a Gaussian potential and compare the results to the corresponding (formal) WKB…