Anharmonic oscillator and double-well potential: Approximating eigenfunctions (Q2583212)

The author notes that in the last 50 years the one-dimensional anharmonic oscillator (meaning \(m^2\geq 0)\), the corresponding Hamiltonian \[ {\mathbf H}=-d^2/dx^2+m^2x^2+gx^4\tag{1} \] and the Schrödinger equation \[ {\mathbf H}\Psi = E(m^2,g)\psi\tag{2} \] have been intensively studied and resulted in nontrivial applications to quantum mechanics, and to quantum field theory. Here, the author develops a uniform approximation of the ground state eigenfunction of (1), which remains valid for different values of the coupling constant \(g\) and the parameter \(m\).