We show that fixed energy scattering measurements for the magnetic Schroedinger operator uniquely determine the magnetic field and electric potential in dimensions $n \geq 3$. The magnetic potential, its first derivatives, and the electric potential are assumed to be exponentially decaying. This improves an earlier result of Eskin and Ralston which considered potentials with many derivatives. The proof is close to arguments in inverse boundary problems, and is based on constructing complex geometrical optics solutions to the Schroedinger equation via a pseudodifferential conjugation argument.
We give a short description of the proof of asymptotic-completeness for NLS-type equations, including time dependent potential terms, with radial data in three dimensions. We also show how the method applies for the two-body Quantum Scattering case.
We study the long-time behavior of solutions to nonlinear Schroedinger equations with some critical rough potential of inverse square type. The new ingredients are the interaction Morawetz-type inequalities and Sobolev norm property associated with the Lapalacian with inverse square potential. We use such properties to obtain the scattering theory for the defocusing energy-subcritical nonlinear Schroedinger equation with inverse square potential in energy space.
In this paper, we consider the maximal estimates for the solution to an initial value problem of the linear Schroedinger equation with a singular potential. We show a result about the pointwise convergence of solutions to this special variable coefficient Schroedinger equation with initial data $u_0\in H^{s}(\R^n)$ for $s>1/2$ or radial initial data $u_0\in H^{s}(\R^n)$ for $s\geq1/4$ and the solution does not converge when $s<1/4$.
We study the energy-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an energy- subcritical perturbation. We show the existence of a ground state in the four or higher dimensions. Moreover, we give a sufficient and necessary condition for a solution to scatter, in the spirit of Kenig-Merle [16].
Scattering of radial $H^1$ solutions to the 3D focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation below a mass-energy threshold $M[u]E[u] < M[Q]E[Q]$ and satisfying an initial mass-gradient bound $\|u_0\|_{L^2} \|\nabla u_0 \|_{L^2} < \|Q\|_{L^2} \|\nabla Q\|_{L^2}$, where $Q$ is the ground state, was established in Holmer-Roudenko (2007). In this note, we extend the result in Holmer-Roudenko (2007) to non-radial $H^1$ data. For this, we prove a non-radial profile decomposition involving a spatial translation parameter. Then, in the spirit of Kenig-Merle (2006), we control via momentum conservation…
We consider the Aharonov-Bohm effect for the Schroedinger operator and the related inverse problem in an exterior domain the 2-dim. Euclidean space with Dirichlet boundary condition. We study the structure and asymptotics of generalized eigenfunctions and show that the scattering operator determines the domain and the Hamiltonian up to Gauge equivalence under the equal flux condition. We also show that the flux is determined by the scattering operator if the obstacle is convex.
Spectral theory for self-adjoint Dirac operators with periodic potentials and inverse scattering transform for the defocusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation with periodic boundary conditions
We study positivity, localization of binding and essential self-adjointness properties of a class of Schroedinger operators with many anisotropic inverse square singularities, including the case of multiple dipole potentials.
We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (nonlinear Schroedinger equation) with a repulsive delta function potential. We show that a high velocity incoming soliton is split into a transmitted component and a reflected component. The transmitted mass (L^2 norm squared) is shown to be in good agreement with the quantum transmission rate of the delta function potential. We further show that the transmitted and reflected components resolve into solitons plus dispersive radiation, and quantify the mass and phase of these solitons.
A class of nonlinear Schroedinger equations with critical power-nonlinearities and potentials exhibiting multiple anisotropic inverse square singularities is investigated. Conditions on strength, location, and orientation of singularities are given for the minimum of the associated Rayleigh quotient to be achieved, both in the whole $\R^N$ and in bounded domains.
We study the inverse scattering problem for the three dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the Yukawa potential. The nonlinearity of the equation is nonlocal. We reconstruct the potential and the nonlinearity by the knowledge of the scattering states. Our result is applicable to reconstructing the nonlinearity of the semi-relativistic Hartree equation.
This paper is the continuation of our work with Victor Guillemin; Victor and I proved that the Taylor expansion of the potential at a generic non degenerate critical point is determined by the semi-classical spectrum of the associated Schrödinger operator near the corresponding critical value. Here, I show that, under some genericity assumptions, the potential of the 1D Schroedinger operator is determined by its semi-classical spectrum. Moreover, there is an explicit reconstruction. This paper is strongly related to a paper of David Gurarie (J. Math. Phys. 36:1934--1944 (1995)).
Positivity, essential self-adjointness, and spectral properties of a class of Schroedinger operators with multipolar inverse-square potentials are discussed. In particular a necessary and sufficient condition on the masses of singularities for the existence of at least a configuration of poles ensuring the positivity of the associated quadratic form is established.
We study the focusing 3d cubic NLS equation with H^1 data at the mass-energy threshold, namely, when M[u_0]E[u_0] = M[Q]E[Q]. In earlier works of Holmer-Roudenko and Duyckaerts-Holmer-Roudenko, the behavior of solutions (i.e., scattering and blow up in finite time) is classified when M[u_0]E[u_0] < M[Q]E[Q]. In this paper, we first exhibit 3 special solutions: e^{it}Q and Q^+, Q^-; here Q is the ground state, and Q^+, Q^- exponentially approach the ground state solution in the positive time direction, meanwhile Q^+ having finite time blow up and Q^- scattering in the negative time direction. S…
We analyze the inverse scattering series for diffuse waves in random media. In previous work the inverse series was used to develop fast, direct image reconstruction algorithms in optical tomography. Here we characterize the convergence, stability and approximation error of the series
In a recent paper, we developed an inverse scattering approach to the Boussinesq equation in the case when no solitons are present. In this paper, we extend this approach to include solutions with solitons.
We study explicit formulas for phaseless inverse scattering in the Born approximation at high energies for the Schrödinger equation with compactly supported potential in dimension d $\ge$ 2. We obtain error estimates for these formulas in the configuration space.
Let $q(x)$ be real-valued compactly supported sufficiently smooth function. It is proved that the scattering data $A(β,α_0,k)$ $\forall β\in S^2$, $\forall k>0,$ determine $q$ uniquely. Here $α_0\in S^2$ is a fixed direction of the incident plane wave.
We prove a fixed frequency inverse scattering result for the magnetic Schrödinger operator (or connection Laplacian) on surfaces with Euclidean ends. We show that, under suitable decaying conditions, the scattering matrix for the operator determines both the gauge class of the connection and the zeroth order potential.
We consider the problem of identifying sharp criteria under which radial $H^1$ (finite energy) solutions to the focusing 3d cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) $i\partial_t u + Δu + |u|^2u=0$ scatter, i.e. approach the solution to a linear Schrödinger equation as $t\to \pm \infty$. The criteria is expressed in terms of the scale-invariant quantities $\|u_0\|_{L^2}\|\nabla u_0\|_{L^2}$ and $M[u]E[u]$, where $u_0$ denotes the initial data, and $M[u]$ and $E[u]$ denote the (conserved in time) mass and energy of the corresponding solution $u(t)$. The focusing NLS possesses a soliton solutio…
We study the behavior of solutions to a Schr{ö}dinger equation with large, rapidly oscillating, mean zero, random potential with Gaussian distribution. We show that in high dimension $d>\mathfrak{m}$, where $\mathfrak{m}$ is the order of the spatial pseudo-differential operator in the Schr{ö}dinger equation (with $\mathfrak{m}=2$ for the standard Laplace operator), the solution converges in the $L^2$ sense uniformly in time over finite intervals to the solution of a deterministic Schr{ö}dinger equation as the correlation length $\varepsilon$ tends to 0. This generalizes to long times the conve…
We give a brief survey for the recent development of inverse scattering theory on non-compact Riemannian manifolds. The main theme is the reconstruction of the manifold and the metric from the scattering matrix.
This work investigates the scattering coefficients for inverse medium scattering problems. It shows some fundamental properties of the coefficients such as symmetry and tensorial properties. The relationship between the scattering coefficients and the far-field pattern is also derived. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the scattering coefficients with respect to changes in the permittivity and permeability distributions is investigated. In the linearized case, explicit formulas for reconstructing permittivity and permeability distributions from the scattering coefficients is proposed. They relat…
We study an inverse source scattering problem for the Schrödinger equation with a quadratic nonlinearity. In general, uniqueness of inverse source problems can not be guaranteed at a fixed energy. Therefore, additional information is required for the source in order to obtain a unique solution. By adding reference point sources, we show that a general source function could be uniquely determined from boundary measurements at a fixed wavenumber. This method does not apply to inverse source problems of linear equations since it uses the nonlinearity as a tool. The proof utilizes the method of li…
We study scattering and inverse scattering theories for asymptotically complex hyperbolic manifolds. We show the existence of the scattering operator as a meromorphic family of operators in the Heisenberg calculus on the boundary, which is a contact manifold with a pseudohermitian structure. Then we define the radiation fields as in the real asymptotically hyperbolic case, and reconstruct the scattering operator from those fields. As an application we show that the manifold, including its topology and the metric, are determined up to invariants by the scattering matrix at all energies.
Asymptotics of solutions to Schroedinger equations with singular dipole-type potentials is investigated. We evaluate the exact behavior near the singularity of solutions to elliptic equations with potentials which are purely angular multiples of radial inverse-square functions. Both the linear and the semilinear (critical and subcritical) cases are considered.
Consider a one-dimensional Schroedinger operator which is a short range perturbation of a finite-gap operator. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on the left, right reflection coefficient such that the difference of the potentials has finite support to the left, right, respectively. Moreover, we apply these results to show a unique continuation type result for solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in this context. By virtue of the Miura transform an analogous result for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation is also obtained.
We discuss the inverse uniqueness problem in phaseless scattering by counting the zeros of its modulus of the scattering amplitude. The phase linearization of scattered wave field disturbs the originally uniform distribution of the zero set. There is a connection between the perturbation of the index of refraction and the zero distribution of the modulus. We conclude the inverse uniqueness of the phaseless problem from the point of view of interior transmission problem.
