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Cole-Hopf-like transformation for Schrödinger equations containing complex nonlinearities

G Kaniadakis and A M Scarfone

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We consider systems which conserve the particle number and are described by Schrödinger equations containing complex nonlinearities. In the case of canonical systems, we study their main symmetries and conservation laws. We introduce a Cole-Hopf-like transformation both for canonical and noncanonical systems, which changes the evolution equation into another one containing purely real nonlinearities, and reduces the continuity equation to the standard form of the linear theory. This approach allows us to treat, in a unifying scheme, a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical nonlinear systems, some of them already known in the literature.


PACS

03.65.Ge Solutions of wave equations: bound states

05.45.-a Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems

02.30.Jr Partial differential equations

MSC

70H15 Canonical and symplectic transformations

35Q55 NLS-like (nonlinear Schrödinger) equations (See also 37K10)

70H33 Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 8 (1 March 2002)

Received 23 July 2001, in final form 17 December 2001

Published 15 February 2002



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