Semiclassical series at finite temperature (Q1301814)

The authors derive the semiclassical series for the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system consisting of a particle in a single-well potential. The single-well quartic anharmonic oscillator of the first two terms of the series is constructed explicitly and their high and low temperature limits are investigated. The power of resummations by extracting from the first term an accurate nonperturbative estimate of the ground-state energy of the system and a curve for the specific heat are illustrated.