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Anharmonic oscillator: a solution

Quantum Physics 2023-09-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

It is shown that for the one-dimensional quantum anharmonic oscillator with potential V(x)=x2+g2x4V(x)= x^2+g^2 x^4 the Perturbation Theory (PT) in powers of g2g^2 (weak coupling regime) and the semiclassical expansion in powers of \hbar for energies coincide. It is related to the fact that the dynamics in xx-space and in (gx)(gx)-space corresponds to the same energy spectrum with effective coupling constant g2\hbar g^2. Two equations, which govern the dynamics in those two spaces, the Riccati-Bloch (RB) and the Generalized Bloch (GB) equations, respectively, are derived. The PT in g2g^2 for the logarithmic derivative of wave function leads to PT (with polynomial in xx coefficients) for the RB equation and to the true semiclassical expansion in powers of \hbar for the GB equation, which corresponds to a loop expansion for the density matrix in the path integral formalism. A 2-parametric interpolation of these two expansions leads to a uniform approximation of the wavefunction in xx-space with unprecedented accuracy 106\sim 10^{-6} locally and unprecedented accuracy 1091010\sim 10^{-9}-10^{-10} in energy for any g20g^2 \geq 0. A generalization to the radial quartic oscillator is briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2011.14451,
  title  = {Anharmonic oscillator: a solution},
  author = {Alexander V Turbiner and Juan Carlos del Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.14451},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; extended version by adding a discussion on non-orthogonal polynomials and section on radial quartic anharmonic oscillator

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