51. A rigorous derivation of the Hamiltonian structure for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
- Author
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics, Mendelson, Dana, Nahmod, Andrea R, Pavlović, Nataša, Rosenzweig, Matthew, Staffilani, Gigliola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics, Mendelson, Dana, Nahmod, Andrea R, Pavlović, Nataša, Rosenzweig, Matthew, and Staffilani, Gigliola
- Abstract
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) in any spatial dimension, which is a well-known example of an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system. Inspired by the knowledge that the NLS is an effective equation for a system of interacting bosons as the particle number tends to infinity, we provide a derivation of the Hamiltonian structure, which is comprised of both a Hamiltonian functional and a weak symplectic structure, for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation from quantum many-body systems. Our geometric constructions are based on a quantized version of the Poisson structure introduced by Marsden, Morrison and Weinstein [24] for a system describing the evolution of finitely many indistinguishable classical particles.
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- 2021