Scattering of solitons for the Schrödinger equation coupled to a particle (Q871766)

The authors consider the Schrödinger equation coupled to a nonrelativistic particle with position~\(q\) \[ i\dot{\psi}(x,t)=-\Delta\psi(x,t)+m^2\psi(x,t)+\rho(x-q(t)), \] \[ \ddot{q}(t)=\frac{1}{2}\int\left[\overline{\psi}\nabla\rho(x-q(t))+\psi(x,t) \nabla\overline{\rho}(x-q(t))\right]\,dx, \] where \(x\in{\mathbb R},m>0\) and \(\rho\) is the charge distribution. Their main result is the soliton asymptotics of type \[ \psi(x,t)\sim\psi_{v_{\pm}}(x-v_{\pm}t-a_{\pm})+W_0 (t)\Psi_{\pm}, \;\;q(t)\sim v_{\pm}t+a_{\pm}\;\;\text{as}\;\;t\rightarrow\pm\infty, \] under the assumption that the initial state is close to the solitary manifold \[ {\mathcal{S}}:=\{(\operatorname {Re}\psi(x-a),\operatorname {Im}\psi(x-a),a,v):a,v\in{\mathbb{R}}^3,| v| <2m\}. \] The proof uses spectral theory and the symplectic projection onto \({\mathcal{S}}\) in the Hilbert phase space. For similar results for other coupled systems of wave fields and particles, see \textit{I. Valery, A. Komech} and \textit{B. Vainberg} [Commun. Math. Phys. 268, 321--367 (2006; Zbl 1127.35054)].