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Higher-order WKB methods are used to investigate the border between the solvable and insolvable portions of the spectrum of quasi-exactly solvable quantum-mechanical potentials. The analysis reveals scaling and factorization properties that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. M. Bender , G. Dunne , M. Moshe

Using the generalized coherent states we argue that the path integral formulae for $SU(2)$ and $SU(1,1)$ (in the discrete series) are WKB exact,if the starting point is expressed as the trace of $e^{-iT\hat H}$ with $\hat H$ being given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 K. Funahashi , T. Kashiwa , S. Sakoda , K. Fujii

\(\Un{N}\) coherent states over Grassmann manifold, \(\grsmn{N}{n}\simeq\Un{N}/ (\Un{n}\times \Un{N-n})\), are formulated to be able to argue the WKB-exactness, so called the localization of Duistermaat-Heckman, in the path integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Kazuyuki Fujii , Taro Kashiwa , Seiji Sakoda

We study non-Hermitian quantum mechanics of an inverted triple-well potential within the exact WKB framework. For a single classical potential, different Siegert boundary conditions define three distinct quantum problems: the PT-symmetric,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Syo Kamata , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Cihan Pazarbaşı , Hidetoshi Taya

Solution of the Schr\"odinger's equation in the zero order WKB approximation is analyzed. We observe and investigate several remarkable features of the WKB$_0$ method. Solution in the whole region is built with the help of simple connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Sergeenko

A well-motivated conjecture states that the open topological string partition function on toric geometries in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit is annihilated by a difference operator called the quantum mirror curve. Recently, the complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-29 Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor

The exactness of the semiclassical method for three-dimensional problems in quantum mechanics is analyzed. The wave equation appropriate in the quasiclassical region is derived. It is shown that application of the standard leading-order WKB…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 M. N. Sergeenko

Bohr-Sommerfeld type quantization conditions of semiclassical eigenvalues for the non-selfadjoint Zakharov-Shabat operator on the circle are derived using an exact WKB method. The conditions are given in terms of the action associated with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Setsuro Fujiié , Jens Wittsten

In this paper, we study the quasinormal modes of the generalized Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN) naked singularity spacetime using the exact Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method. Working in the complex radial plane, we construct the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Aryansh Saxena , Suresh C. Jaryal , K. K. Sharma

We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 Gleb Aminov , Alba Grassi , Yasuyuki Hatsuda

The phenomenon of gravitational particle production can take place for quantum fields in curved spacetime. The abundance and energy spectrum of gravitationally produced particles is typically calculated by solving the field's mode equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Soichiro Hashiba , Siyang Ling , Andrew J. Long

The study of tunneling splitting is fundamental to get insight into the dynamics of a multitude of molecular systems. In this paper, a novel approach to the analysis of the ground-state tunneling splitting is presented and explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Pierpaolo Pravatto , Barbara Fresch , Giorgio J. Moro

It is a common belief among field theorists that path integrals can be computed exactly only in a limited number of special cases, and that most of these cases are already known. However recent developments, which generalize the WKBJ method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Hans Dykstra , Joe Lykken , Eric Raiten

We demonstrate how the Exact WKB analysis works in the study of the quasi-normal modes (QNMs). We apply the Exact WKB analysis to a massless scalar perturbation to the D3-brane metric as a concrete example. The Exact WKB analysis provides…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 Keita Imaizumi

Path integral derivations are presented for two recently developed complex trajectory techniques for the propagation of wave packets, Complex WKB and BOMCA. Complex WKB is derived using a standard saddle point approximation of the path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jeremy Schiff , Yair Goldfarb , David J. Tannor

This paper elucidates the dual structure of the Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics in two correlated stages: (1) We first derive the real-valued Schr\"{o}dinger equation from scratch without referring to classical mechanics, wave mechanics, nor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Kazuo Takatsuka

The path integral by which quantum field theories are defined is a particular solution of a set of functional differential equations arising from the Schwinger action principle. In fact these equations have a multitude of additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gerald Guralnik , Zachary Guralnik

The Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin semiclassical method is formulated for quasiparticles with quartic-in-momentum dispersion which presents the simplest case of a soft energy-momentum dispersion. It is shown that matching wave functions in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-06 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We study finite-dimensional integrals in a way that elucidates the mathematical meaning behind the formal manipulations of path integrals occurring in quantum field theory. This involves a proper understanding of how Wick's theorem allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Timothy Nguyen

Quantum fields exhibit non-trivial behaviours in curved space-times, especially around black holes or when a cosmological constant is added to the field equations. A new scheme, based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Grain , A. Barrau