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TBA equations and resurgent Quantum Mechanics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-01 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We derive a system of TBA equations governing the exact WKB periods in one-dimensional Quantum Mechanics with arbitrary polynomial potentials. These equations provide a generalization of the ODE/IM correspondence, and they can be regarded as the solution of a Riemann-Hilbert problem in resurgent Quantum Mechanics formulated by Voros. Our derivation builds upon the solution of similar Riemann-Hilbert problems in the study of BPS spectra in N=2\mathcal{N}=2 gauge theories and of minimal surfaces in AdS. We also show that our TBA equations, combined with exact quantization conditions, provide a powerful method to solve spectral problems in Quantum Mechanics. We illustrate our general analysis with a detailed study of PT-symmetric cubic oscillators and quartic oscillators.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04812,
  title  = {TBA equations and resurgent Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {Katsushi Ito and Marcos Mariño and Hongfei Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04812},
  year   = {2019}
}

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42 pages, Typos corrected, references are added, published version

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