Schr\"odinger-Newton-Hooke system in higher dimensions. Part I: Stationary states

TL;DR

This paper investigates stationary solutions of the Schr"odinger-Newton-Hooke system in higher dimensions, revealing existence of families of states and dimension-dependent behaviors that influence stability, with implications for quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Contribution

It establishes the existence of ground and excited states for the SNH system in high dimensions and analyzes their qualitative behaviors based on dimension, advancing understanding of nonlinear wave confinement.

Findings

Existence of one-parameter families of stationary states.

Different qualitative behaviors of ground state frequency in dimensions 7-15 and ≥16.

Potential impact on stability properties of solutions.

Abstract

The Schr\"odinger equation with a harmonic potential coupled to the Poisson equation, called the Schr\"odinger-Newton-Hooke (SNH) system, has been considered in a variety of physical contexts, ranging from quantum mechanics to general relativity. Our work is directly motivated by the fact that the SNH system describes the nonrelativistic limit of the Einstein-massive-scalar system with negative cosmological constant. With this paper we begin the investigations aiming at understanding solutions of the SNH system in the energy supercritical spatial dimensions $d\geq 7$, where we expect to observe interesting short wavelength behaviours due to the confinement of waves by the trapping potential. Here we study stationary solutions and prove existence of one-parameter families of nonlinear ground and excited states. The frequency of the ground state as the function of the central density is shown to exhibit different qualitative behaviours in dimensions $7\leq d\leq 15$ and $d\geq 16$, which is expected to affect the stability properties of the ground states in these dimensions. Our results bear many similarities to the analogous problem that has been studied for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.