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This paper is concerned with an efficient numerical method for solving the 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equation in the highly oscillatory regime. Being a hybrid, analytical-numerical approach it does not have to resolve each oscillation, in…

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The study of asymptotic properties of solutions to differential equations has a long and arduous history, with the most significant advances having been made in the development of quantum mechanics. A very powerful method of analysis is…

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We consider the problem of soliton-mean field interaction for the class of asymptotically integrable equations, where the notion of the asymptotic integrability means that the Hamilton equations for the high-frequency wave packet's…

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We consider the Cauchy-problem for a class of scalar linear dispersive equations with rapidly oscillating initial data. The problem of high-frequency asymptotics of such models is reviewed,in particular we highlight the difficulties in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Sparber , Peter A. Markowich , Norbert J. Mauser

Rigorous pointwise asymptotics are established for semiclassical soliton ensembles (SSEs) of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation using techniques of asymptotic analysis of matrix Riemann-Hilbert problems. The accumulation of poles…

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We consider convolution integral equations on a finite interval with a real-valued kernel of even parity, a problem equivalent to finding a Wiener-Hopf factorisation of a notoriously difficult class of $2\times 2$ matrices. The kernel…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Dmitry Ponomarev

We study the anharmonic double well in quantum mechanics using exact Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) methods in a 't Hooft-like double scaling limit where classical behavior is expected to dominate. We compute the tunneling action in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Prisco Lo Chiatto , Sebastian Schenk , Felix Yu

We consider initial value problems for $\varepsilon^2\,\varphi''+a(x)\,\varphi=0$ in the highly oscillatory regime, i.e., with $a(x)>0$ and $0<\varepsilon\ll 1$. We discuss their efficient numerical integration on coarse grids, but still…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Anton Arnold , Jannis Körner

We study multipoint Virasoro conformal blocks on the sphere in the comb channel. We arrive at the asymptotic expression for these blocks at large intermediate dimensions, applying WKB method for "classical BPZ equation", which is used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Aleksandr Artemev , Dmitry Khromov

We draw attention on the fact that the Riccati-Pad\'e method developed some time ago enables the accurate calculation of bound-state eigenvalues as well as of resonances embedded either in the continuum or in the discrete spectrum. We apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Francisco M. Fernández , Javier Garcia

Improved Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB)-type approximations are presented in order to study cosmological perturbations beyond the lowest order. Our methods are based on functions which approximate the true perturbation modes over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Casadio , Fabio Finelli , Mattia Luzzi , Giovanni Venturi

This article is devoted to the construction of pseudomodes of one-dimensional biharmonic operators with the complex-valued potentials via the WKB method. As a by-product, the shape of pseudospectrum near infinity can be described. This is a…

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We extend the WKB method for the computation of cosmological perturbations during inflation beyond leading order and provide the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to second order in the slow-roll parameters. Our method does…

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This paper features and elaborates recent developments and modifications in asymptotic techniques in solving differential equation in non linear dynamics. These methods are proved to be powerful to solve weakly as well as strongly non…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 R. Dutta

In this paper, we revisit the asymptotic formulas of real Painlev\'e I transcendents as the independent variable tends to negative infinity, which were initially derived by Kapaev with the complex WKB method. Using the Riemann-Hilbert…

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We study the ODE/IM correspondence for two-dimensional conformal field theories with Virasoro and $\mathcal{W}_N$ symmetry. Building on earlier work establishing the correspondence, we develop a systematic algorithm for calculating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 Matěj Kudrna , Tomáš Procházka

We study the ODE/IM correspondence between two-dimensional $WA_{r}$/$WD_{r}$-type conformal field theories and the higher-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) obtained from the affine Toda field theories associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-09 Katsushi Ito , Mingshuo Zhu

The quantum quartic anharmonic oscillator with the Hamiltonian $H=\frac{1}{2}\left( p^{2}+x^{2}\right) +\lambda x^{4}$ is a classical and fundamental model that plays a key role in various branches of physics, including quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 V. A. Babenko , A. V. Nesterov

We present a method to construct a continuous extension (otherwise known as dense output) for a numerical routine in the special case of the numerical solution being a scalar-valued function exhibiting rapid oscillations. Such cases call…

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