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Stochastic extensions of the Schrodinger equation have attracted attention recently as plausible models for state reduction in quantum mechanics. Here we formulate a general approach to stochastic Schrodinger dynamics in the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. C. Brody , L. P. Hughston

We investigate precursors of critical behavior in the quasienergy spectrum due to the dynamical instability in the kicked top. Using a semiclassical approach, we analytically obtain a logarithmic divergence in the density of states, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 V. M. Bastidas , P. Perez-Fernandez , M. Vogl , T. Brandes

We provide a probabilistic characterization of criticality, subcriticality, and supercriticality for subordinated Schr\"{o}dinger operators. We also investigate the relationship between the subcriticality of these operators and the uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Takumu Ooi , Motohiro Sobajima

In this paper, we determine the spectral instability of periodic odd waves for the defocusing fractional cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Our approach is based on periodic perturbations that have the same period as the standing wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Handan Borluk , Gulcin M. Muslu , Fábio Natali

A new semiclassical approach to linear (L) and nonlinear (NL) one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation (SE) is presented. Unlike the usual WKB solution, our solution does not diverge at the classical turning point. For LSE, our zeroth-order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadanori Hyouguchi , Satoshi Adachi , Masahito Ueda

We consider the Cauchy problem of the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on $\mathbb R^d$, $d \geq 3$, with random initial data and prove almost sure well-posedness results below the scaling critical regularity $s_\text{crit} =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Árpád Bényi , Tadahiro Oh , Oana Pocovnicu

We consider a nonlinear semi-classical Schrodinger equation for which it is known that quadratic oscillations lead to focusing at one point, described by a nonlinear scattering operator. If the initial data is an energy bounded sequence, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Isabelle Gallagher

The time dependent complex Schr\"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is solved by constructing differential quadrature algorithm based on sinc functions. Reduction to a coupled system of real equations enables to approach the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Alper Korkmaz

As a model for the semiclassical analysis of quantum-mechanical systems with both potentials and boundary conditions, we construct the WKB propagator for a linear potential sloping away from an impenetrable boundary. First, we find all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 T. A. Zapata , S. A. Fulling

We consider the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a short-range external potential, in a semi-classical scaling. We show that for fixed Planck constant, a com-plete scattering theory is available, showing that both the potential and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Rémi Carles

We obtain probabilistic local well-posedness in quasilinear regimes for the Schr\"odinger half-wave equation with a cubic nonlinearity. We need to use a refined ansatz because of the lack of probabilistic smoothing in the Picard's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Nicolas Camps , Louise Gassot , Slim Ibrahim

We derive the semiclassical WKB quantization condition for obtaining the energy band edges of periodic potentials. The derivation is based on an approach which is much simpler than the usual method of interpolating with linear potentials in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. P. Sukhatme , M. N. Sergeenko

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. N. Sergeenko

We consider the logarithmic Schr{\"o}dinger equation in a semiclassical scaling, in the presence of a smooth, at most quadratic, external potential. For initial data under the form of a single coherent state, we identify the notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rémi Carles , Fangyuan Dong

After reviewing the WKB series for the Schr\"odinger equation we calculate the semiclassical expansion for the eigenvalues of the angular momentum operator. This is the first systematic semiclassical treatment of the angular momentum for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Marko Robnik , Luca Salasnich

In this paper we study the focusing cubic wave equation in 1+5 dimensions with radial initial data as well as the one-equivariant wave maps equation in 1+3 dimensions with the model target manifolds $\mathbb{S}^3$ and $\mathbb{H}^3$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Benjamin Dodson , Andrew Lawrie

The method initiated by Wentzel, Kramers, and Brillouin to find approximate solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation lies at the origin of the spectacular development of microlocal and semiclassical analysis. When used naively, the approach…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 San Vũ Ngoc

We consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with double nonlinearities with opposite sign, with one term is mass-critical and the other term is mass-supercritical and energy-subcritical, which includes the famous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Xing Cheng

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Roger J. Thelwell , John D. Carter , Bernard Deconinck

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