Schrödinger-Newton-Hooke system in higher dimensions. Part I: Stationary states

Abstract

The Schrödinger equation with a harmonic potential coupled to the Poisson equation, called the Schrödinger-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 $d\ge 7$, 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 $7\le d\le 15$ and $d\ge 16$, 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.

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