Partially concentrating standing waves for weakly coupled Schrödinger systems

Abstract

We study the existence of standing waves for the following weakly coupled system of two Schrödinger equations in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, $N=2,3$, \[ \begin{cases} i \hslash \partial_{t}ψ_{1}=-\frac{\hslash^2}{2m_{1}}Δψ_{1}+ {V_1}(x)ψ_{1}-μ_{1}|ψ_{1}|^{2}ψ_{1}-β|ψ_{2}|^{2}ψ_{1} & \\ i \hslash \partial_{t}ψ_{2}=-\frac{\hslash^2}{2m_{2}}Δψ_{2}+ {V_2}(x)ψ_{2}-μ_{2}|ψ_{2}|^{2}ψ_{2}-β|ψ_{1}|^{2}ψ_{2},& \end{cases} \] where $V_1$ and $V_2$ are radial potentials bounded from below. We address the case $m_1\sim {\hslash }^2\to 0$, $m_2$ constant, and prove the existence of a standing wave solution with both nontrivial components satisfying a prescribed asymptotic profile. In particular, the second component of such solution exhibits a concentrating behavior, while the first one keeps a quantum nature.

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