Existence and stability of standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with a critical rotational speed

Abstract

We study the existence and stability of standing waves associated to the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with a critical rotational speed and an axially symmetric harmonic potential. This equation arises as an effective model describing the attractive Bose-Einstein condensation in a magnetic trap rotating with an angular velocity. By viewing the equation as NLS with a constant magnetic field and with (or without) a partial harmonic confinement, we establish the existence and orbital stability of prescribed mass standing waves for the equation with mass-subcritical, mass-critical, and mass-supercritical nonlinearities. Our result extends a recent work of [Bellazzini-Boussaïd-Jeanjean-Visciglia, Comm. Math. Phys. 353 (2017), no. 1, 229-251], where the existence and stability of standing waves for the supercritical NLS with a partial confinement were established.

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