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Exact quantization and analytic continuation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-05-31 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we give a streamlined derivation of the exact quantization condition (EQC) on the quantum periods of the Schr\"odinger problem in one dimension with a general polynomial potential, based on Wronskian relations. We further generalize the EQC to potentials with a regular singularity, describing spherical symmetric quantum mechanical systems in a given angular momentum sector. We show that the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations that govern the quantum periods undergo nontrivial monodromies as the angular momentum is analytically continued between integer values in the complex plane. The TBA equations together with the EQC are checked numerically against Hamiltonian truncation at real angular momenta and couplings, and are used to explore the analytic continuation of the spectrum on the complex angular momentum plane in examples.

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@article{arxiv.2109.07516,
  title  = {Exact quantization and analytic continuation},
  author = {Barak Gabai and Xi Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07516},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

35 pages, 10 figures. v2: Typos corrected, references added

R2 v1 2026-06-24T05:59:59.746Z