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From quartic anharmonic oscillator to double well potential

Quantum Physics 2022-04-07 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

It is already known that the quantum quartic single-well anharmonic oscillator Vao(x)=x2+g2x4V_{ao}(x)=x^2+g^2 x^4 and double-well anharmonic oscillator Vdw(x)=x2(1gx)2V_{dw}(x)= x^2(1 - gx)^2 are essentially one-parametric, their eigenstates depend on a combination (g2)(g^2 \hbar). Hence, these problems are reduced to study the potentials Vao=u2+u4V_{ao}=u^2+u^4 and Vdw=u2(1u)2V_{dw}=u^2(1-u)^2, respectively. It is shown that by taking uniformly-accurate approximation for anharmonic oscillator eigenfunction Ψao(u)\Psi_{ao}(u), obtained recently, see JPA 54 (2021) 295204 [1] and Arxiv 2102.04623 [2], and then forming the function Ψdw(u)=Ψao(u)±Ψao(u1)\Psi_{dw}(u)=\Psi_{ao}(u) \pm \Psi_{ao}(u-1) allows to get the highly accurate approximation for both the eigenfunctions of the double-well potential and its eigenvalues.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01546,
  title  = {From quartic anharmonic oscillator to double well potential},
  author = {Alexander V. Turbiner and J. C. del Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01546},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages, extended, two figures added, to be published at Acta Polytechnica

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