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We study exact Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin analysis (EWKB) for a ${\cal PT}$ symmetric quantum mechanics (QM) defined by the potential that $V_{\cal PT}(x) = \omega^2 x^2 + g x^{2 K} (i x)^{\varepsilon}$ with $\omega \in {\mathbb R}_{\ge 0}$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Syo Kamata

We consider exact WKB analysis to a ${\cal PT}$ symmetric quantum mechanics defined by the potential, $V(x) = \omega^2 x^2 + g x^2(i x)^{\varepsilon=2}$ with $\omega \in {\mathbb R}_{\ge 0}$, $g \in {\mathbb R} _{> 0}$. We in particular aim…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Syo Kamata

We explore the exact-WKB (EWKB) method through the analysis of Airy and Weber types, with an emphasis on the exact quantization of locally harmonic potentials in multiple sectors. The core innovation of our work lies in introducing a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-03 Tatsuhiro Misumi , Cihan Pazarbaşı

We apply exact WKB analysis to the spectral problem arising in black hole perturbation theory. The boundary conditions for quasinormal modes lead to exact quantization conditions for the complex frequencies. To solve these conditions, one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tomohito Shiga

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

We study the spectral problem in deformed supersymmetric quantum mechanics with polynomial superpotential by using the exact WKB method and the TBA equations. We apply the ODE/IM correspondence to the Schr\"odinger equation with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-25 Katsushi Ito , Hongfei Shu

Divergence in perturbative expansions is where interesting physics takes place. Particle production on time-dependent backgrounds, as one such example, is interpreted as transition from one vacuum to another. Vacuum is typically defined as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-24 Ryo Namba , Motoo Suzuki

The spectra of a particular class of PT symmetric eigenvalue problems has previously been studied, and found to have an extremely rich structure. In this paper we present an explanation for these spectral properties in terms of quantisation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Sorrell

We discuss the exact quantization of general one-dimensional potentials in view of the exact-WKB formalism. Building on our previous work, we perform analytic continuations across different sectors via the complexification to the spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Tatsuhiro Misumi , Cihan Pazarbaşı

It has been recently realized that, in the case of polynomial potentials, the exact WKB method can be reformulated in terms of a system of TBA equations. In this paper we study this method in various examples. We develop a graphical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Yoan Emery

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Barak Gabai , Xi Yin

A simple explanation is given for the exactness of the extended Koopmans' theorem for computing the removal energy of any many-electron system to the lowest-energy ground state ion of a given symmetry. In particular, by removing the…

Quantum deformed potentials arise naturally in quantum mechanical systems of one bosonic coordinate coupled to $N_f$ Grassmann valued fermionic coordinates, or to a topological Wess-Zumino term. These systems decompose into sectors with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-21 Syo Kamata , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Naohisa Sueishi , Mithat Ünsal

A set of exactly solvable one-dimensional quantum mechanical potentials is described. It is defined by a finite-difference-differential equation generating in the limiting cases the Rosen-Morse, harmonic, and P\"oschl-Teller potentials.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-23 V. Spiridonov

We use exact WKB analysis to derive some concrete formulae in singular quantum perturbation theory, for Schr\"odinger eigenvalue problems on the real line with polynomial potentials of the form $(q^M + g q^N)$, where $N>M>0$ even, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 André Voros

Stemming from the seminal work of Bender & Boettcher in 1998 (Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 80 pp. 5243-5246), there has been great interest in the study of PT-symmetric models of quantum mechanics, where the primary focus is with the study of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 S. Jonathan Chapman , Philippe H. Trinh

We study quantum mechanical systems with a discrete spectrum. We show that the asymptotic series associated to certain paths of steepest-descent (Lefschetz thimbles) are Borel resummable to the full result. Using a geometrical approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Marco Serone , Gabriele Spada , Giovanni Villadoro

We investigate the exact-WKB analysis for quantum mechanics in a periodic potential, with $N $ minima on $S^{1}$. We describe the Stokes graphs of a general potential problem as a network of Airy-type or degenerate Weber-type building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Naohisa Sueishi , Syo Kamata , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Mithat Ünsal

We apply the exact WKB analysis to a couple of one-dimensional Schroedinger-type equations reduced from the Stark effect of hydrogen in a uniform electric field. By introducing Langer's modification and incorporating the Stokes graphs, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Katsushi Ito , Jingjing Yang

We describe a non-perturbative method for computing the energy band structures of one-dimensional models with general point potentials sitting at equally spaced sites. This is done thanks to a Bethe ansatz approach and the method is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-05 V. Caudrelier , N. Crampe
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