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Exact instanton transseries for quantum mechanics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-04-17 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:18:27.791Z