In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation:
where
, and
have the algebraical decay that
as
, where
, and
. By introducing the Miranda theorem, via the Lyapunov–Schmidt finite‐dimensional reduction method, we construct infinitely many multi‐bumps solutions of (0.1), whose maximum points of bumps lie on the top and bottom circles of a cylinder provided
, or
. This result complements and extends the ones in [Duan and Musso, JDE, 2022] for a slow decaying rate of the potential function at infinity from
to
.