Nonlinear dynamics of semiclassical coherent states in periodic potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/24/244032MaRDI QIDQ2896242zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rémi Carles, Christof Sparber

Publication date 13 July 2012

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6633

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: 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 semiclassical scaling regime, we construct asymptotic solutions, which are concentrated both in space and in frequency around the effective semiclassical phase-space flow induced by Bloch's spectral problem. The dynamics of these generalized coherent states is governed by a nonlinear Schrodinger model with effective mass. In the case of nonlocal nonlinearities we establish a novel averaging type result in the critical case.

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