Aspects of perturbation theory in quantum mechanics: the BenderWu \textsc{Mathematica}^ package

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2017.11.018zbMATH Open1498.81079arXiv1608.08256OpenAlexW2963355690WikidataQ59410751 ScholiaQ59410751MaRDI QIDQ2102479FDOQ2102479

Authors: Mithat Ünsal, Tin Sulejmanpasic 

Publication date: 28 November 2022

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss a general setup which allows the study of the perturbation theory of an arbitrary, locally harmonic 1D quantum mechanical potential as well as its multi-variable (many-body) generalization. The latter may form a prototype for regularized quantum field theory. We first generalize the method of Bender-Wu, and derive exact recursion relations which allow the determination of the perturbative wave-function and energy corrections to an arbitrary order, at least in principle. For 1D systems, we implement these equations in an easy to use Mathematica package we call BenderWu. Our package enables quick home-computer computation of high orders of perturbation theory (about 100 orders in 10-30 seconds, and 250 orders in 1-2h) and enables practical study of a large class of problems in Quantum Mechanics. We have two hopes concerning the BenderWu package. One is that due to resurgence, large amount of non-perturbative information, such as non-perturbative energies and wave-functions (e.g. WKB wave functions), can in principle be extracted from the perturbative data. We also hope that the package may be used as a teaching tool, providing an effective bridge between perturbation theory and non-perturbative physics in textbooks. Finally, we show that for the multi-variable case, the recursion relation acquires a geometric character, and has a structure which allows easy parallelization to computer clusters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08256

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryresurgencesemi-classics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica

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