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Recent work has shown a deep connection between semilocal approximations in density functional theory and the asymptotics of the sum of the WKB semiclassical expansion for the eigenvalues. However, all examples studied to date have…

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We construct a generalised expression for the normal ordering of (a+a^{\dagger})^{m} for integral values of m and use the result to study the quantum anharmonic oscillator problem in the Heisenberg approach. In particular, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anirban Pathak

Out-of-time-ordered-correlators (OTOCs) have been suggested as a means to diagnose chaotic behavior in quantum mechanical systems. Recently, it was found that OTOCs display exponential growth for the inverted quantum harmonic oscillator,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Paul Romatschke

Consider quantum harmonic oscillator, perturbed by an even almost-periodic complex-valued potential with bounded derivative and primitive. Suppose that we know the first correction to the spectral asymptotics $\{\Delta\mu_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexis Pokrovski

In the framework of the theory of open systems based on completely positive quantum dynamical semigroups, we determine the degree of quantum decoherence of a harmonic oscillator interacting with a thermal bath. It is found that the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Aurelian Isar

Applying the Milburn equation to describe intrinsic decoherence, we study the interaction of three-coupled quantum harmonic oscillators or quantized fields. We give an explicit solution for the complete equation, i.e., beyond the usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Alejandro R. Urzúa , Héctor M. Moya-Cessa

We present how a probabilistic model can describe the asymptotic behavior of the iterations, with applications for ODE and approach of some problems in mechanics in $\mathbb{R}^d$.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Guy Cirier

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) of simple harmonic oscillator with extra anharmonic (quartic) interaction are calculated by the second quantization method. We obtain the analytic formulas of spectrum, Fock space states and matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Wung-Hong Huang

The problem of the quantum harmonic oscillator is investigated in the framework of bicomplex numbers, which are pairs of complex numbers making up a commutative ring with zero divisors. Starting with the commutator of the bicomplex position…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Raphael Gervais Lavoie , Louis Marchildon , Dominic Rochon

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 apply several methods related to the WKB approximation to study cosmological perturbations during inflation, obtaining the full power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to first and to second order in the slow-roll parameters. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-28 Mattia Luzzi

We have developed a simple method to solve anharmonic oscillators equations. The idea of our method is mainly based on the partitioning of the potential curve into (n+1) small intervals, solving the Schr\"odinger equation in each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-23 F. Maiz , M. Nasr

A new method for predicting inflationary cosmological perturbations, based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation, is presented. A general expression for the WKB scalar and tensor power spectra is derived. The main advantage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jerome Martin , Dominik J. Schwarz

The asymptotic phase is a fundamental quantity for the analysis of deterministic limit-cycle oscillators, and generalized definitions of the asymptotic phase for stochastic oscillators have also been proposed. In this article, we show that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-10 Yuzuru Kato , Jinjie Zhu , Wataru Kurebayashi , Hiroya Nakao

We analyze the spectral stability of small-amplitude, periodic, traveling-wave solutions of a Boussinesq-Whitham system. These solutions are shown numerically to exhibit high-frequency instabilities when subject to bounded perturbations on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck , Olga Trichtchenko

Asymptotic eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the Orr-Sommerfeld equation in two and three dimensional incompressible flows on an infinite domain and on a semi-infinite domain are obtained. Two configurations are considered, one in which a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Victor Nijimbere

Quantum-mechanical WKB-method is elaborated for the known quantum oscillator problem in curved 3-spaces models Euclid, Riemann, and Lobachevsky E_{3}, H_{3}, S_{3} in the framework of the complex variable function theory. Generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. M. Red'kov

This article is the first of two in which we develop a geometric framework for analysing silent and anisotropic big bang singularities. The results of the present article concern the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to linear systems of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Hans Ringström

This is an unconventional review article on spectral problems in black hole perturbation theory. Our purpose is to explain how to apply various known techniques in quantum mechanics to such spectral problems. The article includes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Masashi Kimura

We introduce a new rigorous method, based on Borel summability and asymptotic constants of motion generalizing \cite{invent} and \cite{ode1}, to analyze singular behavior of nonlinear ODEs in a neighborhood of infinity and provide global…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Ovidiu Costin , Rodica Costin , Min Huang