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Symmetrized quartic polynomial oscillators and their partial exact solvability

Quantum Physics 2016-07-05 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Sextic polynomial oscillator is probably the best known quantum system which is partially exactly {\it alias} quasi-exactly solvable (QES), i.e., which possesses closed-form, elementary-function bound states ψ(x)\psi(x) at certain couplings and energies. In contrast, the apparently simpler and phenomenologically more important quartic polynomial oscillator is {\em not\,} QES. A resolution of the paradox is proposed: The one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger equation is shown QES after the analyticity-violating symmetrization V(x)=Ax+Bx2+Cx3+x4V(x)=A|x|+B x^2+C|x|^3+x^4 of the quartic polynomial potential.

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@article{arxiv.1602.07088,
  title  = {Symmetrized quartic polynomial oscillators and their partial exact solvability},
  author = {Miloslav Znojil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07088},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pp., 2 figures

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