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The Euclidean path integral method is applied to a quantum tunneling model which accounts for finite size ($L$) effects. The general solution of the Euler Lagrange equation for the double well potential is found in terms of Jacobi elliptic…
A periodic connection is constructed for a double well potential defined in the plane. This solution violates Modica's estimate as well as the corresponding Liouville Theorem for general phase transition potentials. Gradient estimates are…
We consider the non-selfadjoint, semiclassical Schr\"odinger operator $\mathscr{L}(h) := -h^2\partial_x^2+e^{i\alpha}V$, where $\alpha \in (-\pi,\pi)$ and $V: \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}_+$ is even and vanishes at exactly two (symmetric)…
We consider Witten Laplacians associated to some non-Morse potentials. We prove Eyring-Kramers formulas for the bottom of the spectrum of these operators in the semiclassical regime and quantify the spectral gap separating these eigenvalues…
We consider tunneling to the continuum in a multi-dimensional potential. It is demonstrate that this problem can be treated as two separate problems: a) a bound state and b) a non-resonance scattering problem, by a proper splitting of the…
We investigate the spectral analysis of a class of pseudo-differential operators in one dimension. Under symmetry assumptions, we prove an asymptotic formula for the splitting of the first two eigenvalues. This article is a first example of…
Two-term Weyl-type asymptotic law for the eigenvalues of one-dimensional quasi-relativistic Hamiltonian (-h^2 c^2 d^2/dx^2 + m^2 c^4)^(1/2) + V_well(x) (the Klein-Gordon square-root operator with electrostatic potential) with the infinite…
We make use of a recently developed method to, not only obtain the exactly known eigenstates and eigenvalues of a number of quasi-exactly solvable Hamiltonians, but also construct a convergent approximation scheme for locating those levels,…
We present new results on quantum tunneling between deep potential wells, in the presence of a strong constant magnetic field. We construct a family of double well potentials containing examples for which the low-energy eigenvalue splitting…
This work investigates the vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation with potentials of high-dimensional double-wells under Robin boundary conditions. We establish local-in-time convergence of solutions to mean curvature flow with a fixed contact…
Effective Hamiltonian for the kicked double well system was derived using the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff expansion formula. Asymmetric model for the kicked system was constructed. Analytical description of the quasienergy levels splittings…
We prove optimal pointwise bounds on quasimodes of semiclassical Schrodinger operators with arbitrary smooth real potentials in dimension two. This end-point estimate was left open in the general study of semiclassical Lp bounds conducted…
We study a class of PT-symmetric semiclassical Schr\"odinger operators, which are perturbations of a selfadjoint one. Here, we treat the case where the unperturbed operator has a double-well potential. In the simple well case, two of the…
In this paper, we explicitly calculate the quasi-potentials for the damped semilinear stochastic wave equation when the system is of gradient type. We show that in this case the infimum of the quasi-potential with respect to all possible…
Proton tunneling across hydrogen bonds is a fundamental quantum effect with implications for spectroscopy, catalysis, and biomolecular stability. While state-of-the-art instanton and path-integral methods provide accurate multidimensional…
We compute both analytically and numerically the geometry of the parameter space of the anharmonic oscillator employing the quantum metric tensor and its scalar curvature. A novel semiclassical treatment based on a Fourier decomposition…
For any central potential V in D dimensions, the angular Schroedinger equation remains the same and defines the so called hyperspherical harmonics. For non-central models, the situation is more complicated. We contemplate two examples in…
The high-energy parton-parton scattering amplitude can be described, in the c.m.s., by the expectation value of two infinite Wilson lines, running along the classical trajectories of the two colliding particles. The above description…
Motivated by our earlier argument that the apparent large cosmological constant from quantum fluctuations is actually an artifact of not using a full quantum mechanical superposition to determine the ground state in which the universe lives…
Charging a nano-scale oscillator by single electron tunneling leads to an effective double-well potential due to image charges. We combine exact numerical diagonalizations with generalized Master equations and show that the resulting…