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The most discussed of ``live'' metaphors in physical sciences is that of the Schr\"odinger cat. Introduced in the early, but mature days of the new quantum theory, in 1935, the parable of the cat has provoked and enlivened debates on the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 C. S. Unnikrishnan

From the invariance properties of the Schrodinger equation and the isotropy of space we show that a generic (non-relativistic) quantum system is endowed with an ``external'' motion, which can be interpreted as the motion of the centre of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Esposito

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This wave-mechanical representation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Coles , Kate Spencer

A fundamental question in wave turbulence theory is to understand how the "wave kinetic equation" (WKE) describes the long-time dynamics of its associated nonlinear dispersive equation. Formal derivations in the physics literature date back…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

Considered is the Schr\"odinger equation in a finite-dimensional space as an equation of mathematical physics derivable from the variational principle and treatable in terms of the Lagrange-Hamilton formalism. It provides an interesting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 J. J. Sławianowski , V. Kovalchuk

Is wave function collapse a prediction of the Schr\"odinger equation? This unusual problem is explored in an enlarged framework of interpretation, where quantum dynamics is considered exact and its interpretation is extended to include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Roland Omnès

In an effort to provide an alternative method to represent a quantum spin, a precise nonlinear dynamics semi-classical model is used to show that standard quantum spin analysis can be obtained. The model includes a multi-body,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Joshua J. Heiner , Harry C. Shaw , David R. Thayer , Joshua D. Bodyfelt

By applying a simple symmetry reduction on a two-layer liquid model, a nonlocal counterpart of it is obtained. Then a general form of nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger (NNLS) equation with shifted parity, charge-conjugate and delayed time…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-03-05 Xi-Zhong Liu

The properties of a nonlinear oscillator with an additional term $k_g/x^2$, characterizing the isotonic oscillator, are studied. The nonlinearity affects to both the kinetic term and the potential and combines two nonlinearities associated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Manuel F. Rañada

It is demonstrated that nonlinear dynamical systems with analytic nonlinearities can be brought down to the abstract Schr\"odinger equation in Hilbert space with boson Hamiltonian. The Fourier coefficients of the expansion of solutions to…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-31 Krzysztof Kowalski

As illustrated by Schrodingers cat, there are often several macroscopically different versions of reality simultaneously existing in the wave function. On the face of it, this would seem to imply that an observer could perceive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Casey Blood

A nonlinear wave mechanical equation is proposed by inserting an imaginary quantum potential into the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. An explicit expression for its solution is given under certain assumptions and it is shown that it entails…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 C Dedes

An inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is considered, that is invariant under $L^2$ scaling. The sharp condition for global existence of $H^1$ solutions is established, involving the $L^2$ norm of the ground state of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-21 François Genoud

In this paper we consider the nonlinear one-dimensional time-dependent Schroedinger equation with a periodic potential and a local perturbation. In the limit of large periodic potential the time behavior of the wavefunction can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Andrea Sacchetti

We recently introduced a particular nonlinear generalization of quantum mechanics which has the property that it is exactly solvable in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the usual linear quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Alan Chodos , Fred Cooper

Quantum mechanics is one of the basic theories of modern physics. Here, the famous Schr\"odinger equation and the differential operators representing mechanical quantities in quantum mechanics are derived, just based on the principle that…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Xiao-Bo Yan

We show that the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton equation, which describes the nonlinear time evolution of self-gravitating quantum matter, can be made compatible with the no-signaling requirement by elevating it to a stochastic differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Stefan Nimmrichter , Klaus Hornberger

Quantum turbulence that exhibits vortex creation, annihilation and interactions is demonstrated as an exact solution of the time-dependent, free-particle Schr\"odinger equation evolved from a smooth random-phased initial condition. Relaxed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Tzihong Chiueh , Tak-Pong Woo , Hung-Yu Jian , Hsi-Yu Schive

We observe that in nonlinear quantum mechanics, unlike in the linear theory, there exists, in general, a difference between the energy functional defined within the Lagrangian formulation as an appropriate conserved component of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Waldemar Puszkarz

Nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger model is quantised and exactly solved using the canonical framework. It is found that the usual canonical quantisation of the model leads to a theory with pathological inner product. This problem is resolved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Vivek M. Vyas , Zodinmawia