A quantum WKB approximation without classical trajectories

DOI10.1063/1.528157zbMath0672.35064MaRDI QIDQ3825447

F. H. Molzahn

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528157

zbMATH Keywords

WKB approximation; time evolution; series representation; scalar interaction; coherent state; spinless nonrelativistic quantum system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35C10: Series solutions to PDEs

81Q15: Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory

35B20: Perturbations in context of PDEs

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

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