Stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equations and modulation of solitary waves

Mon, 25/01/2010
15:45
Anne De Bouard (VMAP) Stochastic Analysis Seminar Add to calendar Eagle House
In this talk, we will focus on the asymptotic behavior in time of the solution of a model equation for Bose-Einstein condensation, in the case where the trapping potential varies randomly in time. The model is the so called Gross-Pitaevskii equation, with a quadratic potential with white noise fluctuations in time whose amplitude tends to zero. The initial condition is a standing wave solution of the unperturbed equation We prove that up to times of the order of the inverse squared amplitude the solution decomposes into the sum of a randomly modulatedmodulation parameters. In addition, we show that the first order of the remainder, as the noise amplitude goes to zero, converges to a Gaussian process, whose expected mode amplitudes concentrate on the third eigenmode generated by the Hermite functions, on a certain time scale, as the frequency of the standing wave of the deterministic equation tends to its minimal value.