Holomorphic anomaly and quantum mechanics

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DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA9E77zbMATH Open1387.81283arXiv1612.07687OpenAlexW3124049859MaRDI QIDQ4606184FDOQ4606184


Authors: Santiago Codesido, M. Mariño Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 March 2018

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

Abstract: We show that the all-orders WKB periods of one-dimensional quantum mechanical oscillators are governed by the refined holomorphic anomaly equations of topological string theory. We analyze in detail the double-well potential and the cubic and quartic oscillators, and we calculate the WKB expansion of their quantum free energies by using the direct integration of the anomaly equations. We reproduce in this way all known results about the quantum periods of these models, which we express in terms of modular forms on the WKB curve. As an application of our results, we study the large order behavior of the WKB expansion in the case of the double well, which displays the double factorial growth typical of string theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07687




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