We consider the semiclassical limit for the Heisenberg-von Neumann equation with a potential which consists of the sum of a repulsive Coulomb potential, plus a Lipschitz potential whose gradient belongs to $BV$; this assumption on the potential guarantees the well posedness of the Liouville equation in the space of bounded integrable solutions. We find sufficient conditions on the initial data to ensure that the quantum dynamics converges to the classical one. More precisely, we consider the Husimi functions of the solution of the Heisenberg-von Neumann equation, and under suitable assumptions on the initial data we prove that they converge, as $\e \to 0$, to the unique bounded solution of the Liouville equation (locally uniformly in time).
We present several results concerning the semiclassical limit of the time dependent Schrödinger equation with potentials whose regularity doesn't guarantee the uniqueness of the underlying classical flow. Different topologies for the limit are considered and the situation where two bicharateristics can be obtained out of the same initial point is emphasized.
In this paper we study the semiclassical limit of the Schrödinger equation. Under mild regularity assumptions on the potential $U$ which include Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surfaces in molecular dynamics, we establish asymptotic validity of classical dynamics globally in space and time for "almost all" initial data, with respect to an appropriate reference measure on the space of initial data. In order to achieve this goal we prove existence, uniqueness and stability results for the flow in the space of measures induced by the continuity equation.
We establish propagation of singularities for the semiclassical Schrödinger equation, where the potential is conormal to a hypersurface. We show that semiclassical wavefront set propagates along generalized broken bicharacteristics, hence reflection of singularities may occur along trajectories reaching the hypersurface transversely. The reflected wavefront set is weaker, however, by a power of $h$ that depends on the regularity of the potential. We also show that for sufficiently regular potentials, wavefront set may not stick to the hypersurface, but rather detaches from it at points of tang…
In this article we study the propagation of Wigner measures linked to solutions of the Schr{ö}dinger equation with potentials presenting conical singularities and show that they are transported by two different Hamiltonian flows, one over the bundle cotangent to the singular set and the other elsewhere in the phase space, up to a transference phenomenon between these two regimes that may arise whenever trajectories in the outsider flow lead in or out the bundle. We describe in detail either the flow and the mass concentration around and on the singular set and illustrate with examples some iss…
Semiclassical asymptotics for linear Schrödinger equations with non-smooth potentials give rise to ill-posed formal semiclassical limits. These problems have attracted a lot of attention in the last few years, as a proxy for the treatment of eigenvalue crossings, i.e. general systems. It has recently been shown that the semiclassical limit for conical singularities is in fact well-posed, as long as the Wigner measure (WM) stays away from singular saddle points. In this work we develop a family of refined semiclassical estimates, and use them to derive regularized transport equations for saddle…
We consider Schrödinger equations with variable coefficients, and it is supposed to be a long-range type perturbation of the flat Laplacian on $R^n$. We characterize the wave front set of solutions to Schrödinger equations in terms of the initial state. Then it is shown that the singularity propagates following the classical flow, and it is formulated in a semiclassical settings. Methods analogous to the long-range scattering theory, in particular a modified free propagator, are employed.
Solutions to a singular one-dimensional Vlasov equation are obtained as the semiclassical limit of the Wigner transform associated to a logarithmic Schrodinger equation. Two frameworks are considered, regarding in particular the initial position density: Gaussian initial density, or smooth initial density away from vacuum. For Gaussian initial densities, the analysis also yields global solutions to the isothermal Euler system that do not enter the frame of regular solutions to hyperbolic systems by P. D. Lax.
In this paper, we consider the following singularly perturbed fractional Kirchhoff problem \begin{equation*} \Big(\varepsilon^{2s}a+\varepsilon^{4s-N} b{\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}}|(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}}u|^2dx\Big)(-Δ)^su+V(x)u=|u|^{p-2}u,\quad \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*} where $a,b>0$, $2s<N<4s$ with $s\in(0,1)$, $2<p<2^*_s=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$ and $(-Δ)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian. For $\varepsilon> 0$ sufficiently small and a bounded continuous function $V$, we establish a type of local Pohozǎev identity by extension technique and then we can obtain the local uniqueness of semiclassica…
In this article, we shall construct the resolvent of Laplacian at high energies near the spectrum on non-product conic manifolds with a single cone tip. Microlocally, the resolvent kernel is the sum of b-pseudodifferential operators, scattering pseudodifferential operators and intersecting Legendrian distributions. As an application, we shall establish Strichartz estimates for Schrödinger equations on non-compact manifolds with multiple non-product conic singularities.
In this paper, we study weighted $L^{p}(w)$ boundedness ($1<p<\infty$ and $w$ a Muckenhoupt $A_{p}$ weight) of singular integrals with homogeneous convolution kernel $K(x)$ on an arbitrary homogeneous group $\mathbb H$ of dimension $\mathbb{Q}$, {under the assumption that $K_0$, the restriction of $K$ to the unit annulus, is mean zero and $L^{q}$ integrable for some $q_{0}<q\leq \infty$,} where $q_{0}$ is a fixed constant depending on $w$. We obtain a quantitative weighted bound, which is consistent with the one obtained by Hytönen--Roncal--Tapiola in the Euclidean setting, for this operator o…
In this paper we consider a semiclassical version of the wave equations with singular Hölder time-dependent propagation speeds on the lattice $\hbar\mathbb{Z}^{n}$. We allow the propagation speed to vanish leading to the weakly hyperbolic nature of the equations. Curiously, very much contrary to the Euclidean case considered by Colombini, de Giorgi and Spagnolo [2] and by other authors, the Cauchy problem, in this case, is well-posed in $\ell^2(\hbar\mathbb{Z}^{n})$. However, we also recover the well-posedness results in the intersection of certain Gevrey and Sobolev spaces in the limit of the…
We deal with the local well-posedness theory for the two-dimensional inviscid Boussinesq system with rough initial data of Yudovich type. The problem is in some sense critical due to some terms involving Riesz transforms in the vorticity-density formulation. We give a positive answer for a special sub-class of Yudovich data including smooth and singular vortex patches. For the latter case we assume in addition that the initial density is constant around the singular part of the patch boundary.
This article focuses on parabolic equations with rough diffusion coefficients which are ill-posed in the classical sense of distributions due to the presence of a singular forcing. Inspired by the philosophy of rough paths and regularity structures, we introduce a notion of modelled distribution which is suitable in this context. We prove two general tools for reconstruction and integration, as well as a product lemma which is tailor made for the reconstruction of the rough diffusion operator. This yields a partially automated deterministic theory, which we apply to obtain an existence and uni…
The aim of this paper is to provide uniform estimates for the eigenvalue spacings of one-dimensional semiclassical Schrödinger operators with singular potentials on the half-line. We introduce a new development of semiclassical measures related to families of Schrödinger operators that provides a means of establishing uniform non-concentration estimates within that class of operators. This dramatically simplifies analysis that would typically require detailed WKB expansions near the turning point, near the singular point and several gluing type results to connect various regions in the domain.
We consider in the whole plane the Hamiltonian coupling of semilinear Schroedinger equations which have critical growth in the sense of Moser. We prove that the (nonempty) set S of ground state solutions is compact up to translations. Moreover, ground states are uniformly bounded and uniformly decaying at infinity. Then we prove that actually the ground state is positive and radially symmetric. We apply those results to prove the existence of semiclassical ground states solutions to the singularly perturbed system when the external potential stays bounded away from zero. Namely, as the adimens…
In this paper, we study the $L^{p}$ boundedness and $L^{p}(w)$ boundedness ($1<p<\infty$ and $w$ a Muckenhoupt $A_{p}$ weight) of fractional maximal singular integral operators $T_{Ω,α}^{\#}$ with homogeneous convolution kernel $Ω(x)$ on an arbitrary homogeneous group $\mathbb H$ of dimension $\mathbb{Q}$. We show that if $0<α<\mathbb{Q}$, $Ω\in L^{1}(Σ)$ and satisfies the cancellation condition of order $[α]$, then for any $1<p<\infty$, \begin{align*} \|T_{Ω,α}^{\#}f\|_{L^{p}(\mathbb{H})}\lesssim\|Ω\|_{L^{1}(Σ)}\|f\|_{L_α^{p}(\mathbb{H})}, \end{align*} where for the case $α=0$, the $L^p$ boun…
We prove the conjectured first order expansion of the Levy-Lieb functional in the semiclassical limit, arising from Density Functional Theory (DFT). This is accomplished by interpreting the problem as the singular perturbation of an Optimal Transport problem via a Dirichlet penalization.
We prove sparse bounds for maximal oscillatory rough singular integral operator $$T^{P}_{Ω,*}f(x):=\sup_{ε>0} \left|\int_{|x-y|>ε}e^{ιP(x,y)}\frac{Ω\big((x-y)/|x-y|\big)}{|x-y|^{n}}f(y)dy\right|,$$ where $P(x,y)$ is a real-valued polynomial on $\mathbb{R}^{n}\times \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $Ω\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{S}^{n-1})$ is a homogeneous function of degree zero with $\int_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}Ω(θ)~dθ=0$. This allows us to conclude weighted $L^p-$estimates for the operator $T^{P}_{Ω,*}$. Moreover, the norm $\|T^P_{Ω,*}\|_{L^p\rightarrow L^p}$ depends only on the total degree of the polynomial $P(x,…
We present the first detailed numerical study of the semiclassical limit of the Davey-Stewartson II equations both for the focusing and the defocusing variant. We concentrate on rapidly decreasing initial data with a single hump. The formal limit of these equations for vanishing semiclassical parameter $ε$, the semiclassical equations, are numerically integrated up to the formation of a shock. The use of parallelized algorithms allows to determine the critical time $t_{c}$ and the critical solution for these $2+1$-dimensional shocks. It is shown that the solutions generically break in isolated…
We derive a determinant formula for the WKB exponential of singularly perturbed Zakharov-Shabat system that corresponds to the semiclassical (zero dispersion) limit of the focusing Nonlinear Schr\" odinger equation. The derivation is based on the Riemann-Hilbert Problem (RHP) representation of the WKB exponential. We also prove its independence of the branchpoints of the corresponding hyperelliptic surface assuming that the modulation equations are satisfied.
In this paper, we prove a quantitative version of the semiclassical limit from the Hartree to the Vlasov equation with singular interaction, including the Coulomb potential. To reach this objective, we also prove the propagation of velocity moments and weighted Schatten norms which implies the boundedness of the space density of particles uniformly in the Planck constant.
We consider mixed quasi-free states describing $N$ fermions in the mean-field limit. In this regime, the time evolution is governed by the nonlinear Hartree equation. In the large $N$ limit, we study the convergence towards the classical Vlasov equation. Under integrability and regularity assumptions on the initial state, we prove strong convergence in trace and Hilbert-Schmidt norm and provide explicit bounds on the convergence rate for a class of singular potentials of the form $V(x)=|x|^{-α}$, for $α\in(0,1/2)$.
The defocusing Davey-Stewartson II equation has been shown in numerical experiments to exhibit behavior in the semiclassical limit that qualitatively resembles that of its one-dimensional reduction, the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation, namely the generation from smooth initial data of regular rapid oscillations occupying domains of space-time that become well-defined in the limit. As a first step to study this problem analytically using the inverse-scattering transform, we consider the direct spectral transform for the defocusing Davey-Stewartson II equation for smooth initial data i…
