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We show that a polynomial H(N) of degree N of a harmonic oscillator hamiltonian allows us to devise a fully solvable continuous quantum system for which the first N discrete energy eigenvalues can be chosen at will. In general such a choice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ole Steuernagel , Andrei Klimov

We analyze the spectrum of the 3-site Bose-Hubbard model with periodic boundary conditions using a semiclassical method. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization is applied to an effective classical Hamiltonian which we derive using resonance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-16 A. P. Itin , P. Schmelcher

We study some quantum systems described by noncanonical commutation relations formally expressed as [q,p]=ihbar(I + chi H), where H is the associated (harmonic oscillator-like) Hamiltonian of the system, and chi is a Hermitian (constant)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Bruce , P. C. Minning

We derive the semiclassical series for the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system consisting of a particle in a single-well potential. We do this by applying the method of steepest descent to the path-integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti , E. S. Fraga , S. E. Joras

The spectral properties of $su(2)$ Hamiltonians are studied for energies near the critical classical energy $\epsilon_c$ for which the corresponding classical dynamics presents hyperbolic points (HP). A general method leading to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pedro Ribeiro , Thierry Paul

We compute the partition function and specific heat for a quantum mechanical particle under the influence of a quartic double-well potential non-perturbatively, using the semiclassical method. Near the region of bounded motion in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-23 D. Kroff , A. Bessa , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga , S. E. Jorás

We study a single particle which obeys non-relativistic quantum mechanics in R^N and has Hamiltonian H = -Delta + V(r), where V(r) = sgn(q)r^q. If N \geq 2, then q > -2, and if N = 1, then q > -1. The discrete eigenvalues E_{n\ell} may be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard L. Hall , Qutaibeh D. Katatbeh

We describe a method to compute thermodynamic quantities in the harmonic approximation for identical bosons and fermions in an external confining field. We use the canonical partition function where only energies and their degeneracies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We consider a system of $N$ particles living on the noncommutative plane in the presence of a confining potential and study its thermodynamics properties. Indeed, after calculating the partition function, we determine the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Rachid Houça , Ahmed Jellal

We use a semiclassical approximation to derive the partition function for an arbitrary potential in one-dimensional Quantum Statistical Mechanics, which we view as an example of finite temperature scalar Field Theory at a point. We rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

We present a semiclassical study of the spectrum of a few-body system consisting of two short-range interacting bosonic particles in one dimension, a particular case of a general class of integrable many-body systems where the energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-10 Benjamin Geiger , Juan-Diego Urbina , Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter

This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a large class of non-Hermitian, $PT$-symmetric oscillators, whose energy spectrum is entirely real. The spectrum is estimated by second-order WKB approximation, which turns out to be very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. F. Jones , E. S. Moreira

We present a novel analytical method for calculating the spectral function and the density of states in speckle potentials, valid in the semiclassical regime. Our approach relies on stationary phase approximations, allowing us to describe…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-24 Tony Prat , Nicolas Cherroret , Dominique Delande

Consider a semiclassical Hamiltonian \begin{equation*} H_{V, h} := h^{2} \Delta + V - E \end{equation*} where $h > 0$ is a semiclassical parameter, $\Delta$ is the positive Laplacian on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $V$ is a smooth, compactly supported…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Kiril Datchev , Jesse Gell-Redman , Andrew Hassell , Peter Humphries

We apply a variant of the Nose-Hoover thermostat to derive the Hamiltonian of a nonextensive system that is compatible with the canonical ensemble of the generalized thermostatistics of Tsallis. This microdynamical approach provides a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Andrade , M. P. Almeida , A. A. Moreira , G. A. Farias

Using the asymptotic iteration method, we obtain the S-wave solution for a short-range three-parameter central potential with 1/r singularity and with a non-orbital barrier. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 A. J. Sous , A. D. Alhaidari

Studying single-particle dynamics over many periods of oscillations is a well-understood problem solved using symplectic integration. Such integration schemes derive their update sequence from an approximate Hamiltonian, guaranteeing that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Stephen D. Webb

We consider energetics and structural properties of a many particle system in one dimension with pairwise contact interactions confined in a parabolic external potential. To render the problem analytically solvable, we use the harmonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-20 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We consider a quantum system of non-interacting fermions at temperature T, in the framework of linear response theory. We show that semiclassical theory is an appropriate framework to describe some of their thermodynamic properties, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Monique Combescure , Didier Robert

We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in R^(n+m) constrained by a strong potential force to stay within a distance of order hbar (in suitable units) from a smooth n-dimensional submanifold M. We prove that in the semiclassical limit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. F. Dell'Antonio , L. Tenuta
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