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Following earlier studies, several new features of singular perturbation theory for one-dimensional quantum anharmonic oscillators are computed by exact WKB analysis; former results are thus validated.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 André Voros

We derive a semi-analytical form for the Wigner transform for the canonical density operator of a discrete system coupled to a harmonic bath based on the path integral expansion of the Boltzmann factor. The introduction of this simple and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrés Montoya-Castillo , David R. Reichman

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

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

We study holomorphic blocks in the three dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ gauge theory that describes the $\mathbb{CP}^1$ model. We apply exact WKB methods to analyze the line operator identities associated to the holomorphic blocks and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Sujay K. Ashok , P. N. Bala Subramanian , Aditya Bawane , Dharmesh Jain , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arkajyoti Manna

In this contribution a path integral approach for the quantum motion on three-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short``Koenigs-Spaces'', is discussed. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Christian Grosche

There are two well-known approaches to studying nonperturbative aspects of quantum mechanical systems: Saddle point analysis of the partition functions in Euclidean path integral formulation and the exact-WKB analysis based on the wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Naohisa Sueishi , Syo Kamata , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Mithat Ünsal

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

Wentzel, Kramers, Brillouin (WKB) approximation for fractional systems is investigated in this paper using the fractional calculus. In the fractional case the wave function is constructed such that the phase factor is the same as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eqab M. Rabei , Ibrahim M. A. Altarazi , Sami I. Muslih , Dumitru Baleanu

The complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation has been an effective technique to understand particle production in curved as well as in flat spacetime. Earlier we obtained the standard results on particle production in time dependent gauge in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Biswas , B. Modak , A. Shaw

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

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

We analyze the Krawtchouk polynomials K(n,x,N,p,q) asymptotically. We use singular perturbation methods to analyze them for N large with appropriate scalings of the two variables x and n. In particular, the WKB method and asymptotic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Diego Dominici

We consider a set of operators hat{x}=(hat{x}_1,..., hat{x}_N) with diagonal representatives P(n) in the space of generalized coherent states |n>; hat{x}=int dn P(n) |n><n|. We regularize the coherent-state path integral as a limit of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J H Samson

We construct the path integral formula in terms of ``multi-periodic'' coherent state as an extension of the Nielsen-Rohrlich formula for spin. We make an exact calculation of the formula and show that, when a parameter corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Kazuyuki Fujii , Kunio Funahashi

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

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

The formalism of exact 1D quantization is reviewed in detail and applied to the spectral study of three concrete Schr\"odinger Hamiltonians $[-\d^2/\d q^2 + V(q)]^\pm$ on the half-line $\{q>0\}$, with a Dirichlet (-) or Neumann (+)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 A. Voros

The classical field approximation is widely used to better understand the predictions of ultra-light dark matter. Here, we use the truncated Wigner approximation method to test the classical field approximation of ultra-light dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Andrew Eberhardt , Alvaro Zamora , Michael Kopp , Tom Abel

We develop a unified framework for analyzing quantum mechanical resonances using the exact WKB method. The non-perturbative formulation based on the exact WKB method works for incorporating the Zel'dovich regularization, the complex scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Okuto Morikawa , Shoya Ogawa