Calculation of the characteristic functions of anharmonic oscillators

DOI10.1016/J.APNUM.2010.03.015MaRDI QIDQ608509zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich D. Jentschura, Jean Zinn-Justin

Publication date 25 November 2010

Published in Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4313

zbMATH Keywords

anharmonic oscillatorsBohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditiongeneral quantum mechanics and problems of quantizationHamiltonianmethod of asymptotic matchingSchrödinger equationsemiclassical techniques including WKB and Maslov methodssingular perturbationsturning point theoryWKB methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Quantum computation (81P68) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: The energy levels of quantum systems are determined by quantization conditions. For one-dimensional anharmonic oscillators, one can transform the Schrodinger equation into a Riccati form, i.e., in terms of the logarithmic derivative of the wave function. A perturbative expansion of the logarithmic derivative of the wave function can easily be obtained. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition can be expressed in terms of a contour integral around the poles of the logarithmic derivative. Its functional form is B_m(E,g) = n + 1/2, where B is a characteristic function of the anharmonic oscillator of degree m, E is the resonance energy, and g is the coupling constant. A recursive scheme can be devised which facilitates the evaluation of higher-order Wentzel-Kramers-Brioullin (WKB) approximants. The WKB expansion of the logarithmic derivative of the wave function has a cut in the tunneling region. The contour integral about the tunneling region yields the instanton action plus corrections, summarized in a second characteristic function A_m(E,g). The evaluation of A_m(E,g) by the method of asymptotic matching is discussed for the case of the cubic oscillator of degree m=3.

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