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Breathers are spatially localized and time periodic solutions of extended Hamiltonian dynamical systems. In this paper we study excitation thresholds for (nonlinearly dynamically stable) ground state breather or standing wave solutions for…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael I. Weinstein

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 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}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Tianxiang Gou , Mohamed Majdoub , Tarek Saanouni

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

In this work we study a system of Schr\"odinger equations involving nonlinearities with quadratic growth. We establish sharp criterion concerned with the dichotomy global existence versus blow-up in finite time. Such a criterion is given in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Norman Noguera , Ademir Pastor

We investigate the existence of ground states with prescribed mass for the Non-Linear Schr\"odinger energy with combined nonlinearities on $1$ and $2$-periodic metric graphs. This is the natural prosecution of previous studies concerning on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Nicola Soave , Lorenzo Villata

We consider the ground states of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation, which stand for radially symmetric and exponentially decaying solutions on the full space. We investigate their behaviors at both endpoint powers of the nonlinearity,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Rémi Carles , Quentin Chauleur , Guillaume Ferriere , Dmitry Pelinovsky

We investigate existence and nonexistence of action ground states and nodal action ground states for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on noncompact metric graphs with rather general boundary conditions. We first obtain abstract…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Colette De Coster , Simone Dovetta , Damien Galant , Enrico Serra , Christophe Troestler

We investigate the existence and the singular limit of normalized ground states for focusing doubly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with both standard and concentrated nonlinearities on two-dimensional square grids. First, we provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Daniele Barbera , Filippo Boni , Simone Dovetta , Lorenzo Tentarelli

The existence of ground states and (multiple) bound states to semilinear time-independent Maxwell and Schr\"odinger equations, with or without $L^2$-constraints, is investigated.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jacopo Schino

We study a fractional version of the two-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation, where the usual discrete Laplacian is replaced by its fractional form that depends on a fractional exponent $s$ that interpolates…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-08 Mario I. Molina

We consider the stationary nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation set on a tadpole graph with a repulsive delta vertex condition between the loop and the tail of the tadpole. We establish the existence of an action ground state when the size of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Romain Duboscq , Élio Durand-Simonnet , Stefan Le Coz

Nonlinear Schrodinger / Gross-Pitaevskii equations play a central role in the understanding of nonlinear optical and macroscopic quantum systems. The large time dynamics of such systems is governed by interactions of the nonlinear ground…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Zhou Gang , Michael Weinstein

We study a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice with a parabolic trapping potential. The model, describing, e.g., an array of repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate droplets confined in the wells of an optical lattice, is analytically and…

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 study a 1D nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation appearing in the description of a particle inside an atomic nucleus. For various nonlinearities, the ground states are discussed and given in explicit form. Their stability is studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Christian Klein , Simona Rota Nodari

We consider a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a graph or network composed of a generic compact part to which a finite number of half-lines are attached. We call this structure a starlike graph. At the vertices of the graph…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Claudio Cacciapuoti , Domenico Finco , Diego Noja

The dynamics of coupled nonlinear oscillator systems is often described by the classical discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation (DNLSE). In its simplest version, the DNLSE is made up of two terms -- a nearest-neighbor hopping term and an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-30 Uri Levy

We investigate the action ground states of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with and without rotation. Our primary focus is on characterizing the relationship between the action ground states and the energy ground states.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Wei Liu , Chushan Wang , Xiaofei Zhao

We focus on the study of ground-states for the system of $M$ coupled semilinear Schr\"odinger equations with power-type nonlinearities and couplings. General results regarding existence and characterization are derived using a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Simão Correia