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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

The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bao-Fei Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

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 have obtained a set of coupled differential equations from the continuous limit of the transfer matrix method. Decoupling such a set of equations yields an extension to the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-26 C. F. Huang , S. D. Chao , D. R. Hang , Y. C. Lee

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 the spectral correspondence between a particular class of Schrodinger equations and supersymmetric quantum integrable model (QIM). The latter, a quantized version of the Ablowitz-Kaupp-Newell-Segur (AKNS) hierarchy of nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 P. E. G. Assis

The quantum dynamics of an electron in a uniform magnetic field is studied for geometries corresponding to integrable cases. We obtain the uniform asymptotic approximation of the WKB energies and wavefunctions for the semi-infinite plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Spehner , R. Narevich , E. Akkermans

A class of above-barrier quantum-scattering problems is shown to provide an experimentally-accessible platform for studying $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Schr\"odinger equations that exhibit spontaneous $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry breaking despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Micheline B. Soley , Carl M. Bender , A. Douglas Stone

In the framework of the deformed quantum mechanics with minimal length, we consider the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a homogeneous external field. We find the integral representation for the physically acceptable wave function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Jun Tao , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

The mean-field approximation based on effective interactions or density functionals plays a pivotal role in the description of finite quantum many-body systems that are too large to be treated by ab initio methods. Some examples are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 J. A. Sheikh , J. Dobaczewski , P. Ring , L. M. Robledo , C. Yannouleas

We study quasi-stationary states in quantum mechanics using the exact Wentzel--Kramers--Brillouin (WKB) analysis as a nonperturbative framework. Whereas previous works focused mainly on stable systems, we explore unstable states such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Okuto Morikawa , Shoya Ogawa

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

In this paper, we use the WKB approximation method to approximately solve a deformed Schrodinger-like differential equation: $\left[ -\hbar^{2} \partial_{\xi}^{2}g^{2}\left( -i\hbar\alpha\partial_{\xi}\right) -p^{2}\left( \xi\right) \right]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-19 Bochen Lv , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

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

We propose an extension of Wenzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation for solving the Schr\"odinger equation. A set of coupled differential equations is obtained by considering an ansatz of the wave function with an auxiliary condition on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yu-An Tsai , Sheng D. Chao

In this thesis, we develop WKB techniques for the finite difference Schrodinger equation, following the construction of the WKB approach for the standard differential Schrodinger equation. In particular, we will develop an all-order WKB…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Salvatore Baldino

An alternate formalism is developed to determine the energy eigenvalues of quantum mechanical systems, confined within a rigid impenetrable spherical box of radius $r_0$, in the framework of Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anjana Sinha

Recently developed methods for PT-symmetric models can be applied to quantum-mechanical matrix and vector models. In matrix models, the calculation of all singlet wave functions can be reduced to the solution a one-dimensional PT-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael C. Ogilvie , Peter N. Meisinger

We derive a system of TBA equations governing the exact WKB periods in one-dimensional Quantum Mechanics with arbitrary polynomial potentials. These equations provide a generalization of the ODE/IM correspondence, and they can be regarded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-01 Katsushi Ito , Marcos Mariño , Hongfei Shu

The coupled discrete linear and Kerr nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and loss describing transport on dimers with parity-time PT symmetric potentials are considered. The model is relevant among others to experiments in optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-01 J. Pickton , H. Susanto
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