Exact instanton transseries for quantum mechanics
Abstract
We calculate the instanton corrections to energy spectra of one-dimensional quantum mechanical oscillators to all orders and unify them in a closed form transseries description. Using alien calculus, we clarify the resurgent structure of these transseries and demonstrate two approaches in which the Stokes constants can be derived. As a result, we formulate a minimal one-parameter transseries for the natural nonperturbative extension to the perturbative energy, which captures the Stokes phenomenon in a single stroke. We derive these results in three models: quantum oscillators with cubic, symmetric double well and cosine potentials. In the latter two examples, we find that the resulting full transseries for the energy has a more convoluted structure that we can factorise in terms of a minimal and a median transseries. For the cosine potential we briefly discuss this more complicated transseries structure in conjunction with topology and the concept of the resurgence triangle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.05700,
title = {Exact instanton transseries for quantum mechanics},
author = {Alexander van Spaendonck and Marcel Vonk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05700},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
57 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables and 3 appendices. v2: Minor changes (typos and added reference) v3: typos