A complex WKB method for adiabatic problems

Authors Alexander Fedotov, Frédéric Klopp

Publication date 10 December 2002

Published in Asymptotic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

adiabatic perturbations asymptotic behavior complex WKB method one-dimensional periodic Schrödinger operators

Asymptotics and summation methods for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M30) Singular perturbation problems for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (complex WKB, turning points, steepest descent) (34M60) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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Here, the authors give a new version of the complex WKB method suited for adiabatic perturbations of one-dimensional periodic Schrödinger operators. They introduce in the Schrödinger equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}\psi(x)+(V(x)+ W(\varepsilon x))\psi(x) = E\psi(x)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE the additional term \(\varphi\) so that it becomes NEWLINE\[NEWLINE-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}\psi(x)+(V(x)+ W(\varepsilon x + \varphi))\psi(x)= E\psi(x).\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The authors consider solutions to (1) analytic in the parameter \(\varphi\) and introduce a consistency condition for the basis \(\psi_{\pm}\) of (1), complex momentum and canonical domains. Then they construct solutions to the Schrödinger equation with a standard asymptotic behavior.

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