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This paper concerns the homogenization of Schrodinger equations for non-crystalline matter, that is to say the coefficients are given by the composition of stationary functions with stochastic deformations. Two rigorous results of so-called…
We investigate the time evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic optical potential. Using an effective mass formalism, we study the equation of motion for the envelope function modulating the Bloch states of the lattice…
We study the properties of the ground state of Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and show that it experiences a strong localization on the spatial region where the interactions vanish. At the same…
The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a lattice potential is used to model a periodic dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate. Both two- and three-dimensional condensates are considered, for atomic species with either repulsive or…
We prove a global well-posedness result for defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equations with time dependent potential. We then focus on time dependent harmonic potentials. This aspect is motivated by Physics (Bose--Einstein condensation),…
We report on a recent result concerning the effective dynamics for a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates, a class of systems much studied in physics and receiving a large amount of attention in the recent literature in mathematical…
It is shown that the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a dissipative periodic potential, nonlinear losses and linear pump allow for the existence of stable nonlinear Bloch states which are attractors. The model describes…
We consider stationary and propagating solutions for a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic optical potential with an additional confining optical or magnetic potential. Using an effective mass approximation we express the condensate…
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a one-dimensional lattice under the effect of an external homogeneous field is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Here we prove that such an equation can be reduced, in the semiclassical…
We consider nonlinear Schrodinger equations with either local or nonlocal nonlinearities. In addition, we include periodic potentials as used, for example, in matter wave experiments in optical lattices. By considering the corresponding…
In this paper we study a general nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a time dependent harmonic potential. Despite the lack of traslational invariance we find a symmetry trasformation which, up from any solution, produces infinitely many…
We study the Bloch dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms by using the formalism of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Depending on the static force magnitudes the system is shown to exhibit two qualitatively…
A one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with position-dependent effective mass in the kinetic energy operator is studied in the framework of an $so(2,1)$ algebra. New mass-deformed versions of Scarf II, Morse and generalized…
We present a family of exact solutions of one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which describe the dynamics of a bright soliton in Bose-Einstein condensates with the time-dependent interatomic interaction in an expulsive…
In this paper, we study the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation within the formalism of position dependent effective mass. For a generalized decomposition of the non-central effective potential, the deformed Schr\"odinger equation can…
The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with repulsive nonlinearity and elliptic function potential in two-dimensions models a repulsive dilute gas Bose--Einstein condensate in a lattice potential. A family of exact stationary solutions is…
A systematic procedure to study one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a position-dependent effective mass (PDEM) in the kinetic energy operator is explored. The conventional free-particle problem reveals a new and interesting…
We deal with the exact solutions of Schrodinger equation characterized by position-dependent effective mass via point canonical transformations. The Morse, Poschl-Teller and Hulthen type potentials are considered respectively. With the…
Using similarity transformations we construct explicit solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with linear and nonlinear periodic potentials. We present explicit forms of spatially localized and periodic solutions, and study their…
In this paper, we study the existence of vortices for two kinds of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations arising from the Bose-Einstein condensates and geometric optics arguments, respectively. For the Gross-Pitaevskii equation from…