Weakly turbulent solution to Schr\"odinger equation on the two-dimensional torus with real potential decaying at infinity

Abstract

We build a smooth time-dependent real potential on the two-dimensional torus, decaying as time tends to infinity in Sobolev norms along with all its time derivative, and we exhibit a smooth solution to the associated Schr\"odinger equation on the two-dimensional torus whose $H^s$ norms nevertheless grow logarithmically as time tends to infinity. We use Fourier decomposition in order to exhibit a discrete resonant system of interactions, which we are further able to reduce to a sequence of finite-dimensional linear systems along which the energy propagates to higher and higher frequencies. The constructions are very explicit and we can thus obtain lower bounds on the growth rate of the solution.