TBA equations and resurgent Quantum Mechanics
Abstract
We derive a system of TBA equations governing the exact WKB periods in one-dimensional Quantum Mechanics with arbitrary polynomial potentials. These equations provide a generalization of the ODE/IM correspondence, and they can be regarded as the solution of a Riemann-Hilbert problem in resurgent Quantum Mechanics formulated by Voros. Our derivation builds upon the solution of similar Riemann-Hilbert problems in the study of BPS spectra in gauge theories and of minimal surfaces in AdS. We also show that our TBA equations, combined with exact quantization conditions, provide a powerful method to solve spectral problems in Quantum Mechanics. We illustrate our general analysis with a detailed study of PT-symmetric cubic oscillators and quartic oscillators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.04812,
title = {TBA equations and resurgent Quantum Mechanics},
author = {Katsushi Ito and Marcos Mariño and Hongfei Shu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04812},
year = {2019}
}
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42 pages, Typos corrected, references are added, published version