Strong coupling perturbation expansions for anharmonic oscillators. Numerical results (Q4947708)

A typical user of quantum mechanics is given a phenomenological Hamiltonian (say, quartic, sextic, octic or decadic anharmonic oscillator) and constructs a low lying part of its spectrum via the usual (and comparatively easily generated, so called Rayleigh-Schrödinger) perturbation series. Such a user is given a significant help by the present paper. Firstly, he/she is advised to get rid of the divergence by moving to the strong-coupling (SC) and renormalized strong-coupling (RSC) regime via a suitable re-definition of the coupling strength. This advice is accompanied by a number of formulae, Tables and Figures which demonstrate the survival of an easy feasibility of the recipe and illustrate the numerous specific merits of the RSC approach. One is particularly impressed by the observation that the RSC perturbation series behaves convergent for all the real values of the renormalized coupling (i.e., in particular, far beyond the single well regime: the paper [ibid. 32, No. 9, L123--L127 (1999; Zbl 0928.34071)] by the same authors will say more) and that it is able to provide the upper and upper energy bounds in a way simplifying the current SC predictions significantly.