Radial anharmonic oscillator: perturbation theory, new semiclassical expansion, approximating eigenfunctions. I: Generalities, cubic anharmonicity case

DOI10.1142/S0217751X19501434zbMATH Open1471.81019arXiv1908.03799OpenAlexW2967527737WikidataQ127281868 ScholiaQ127281868MaRDI QIDQ5010191FDOQ5010191

Authors: J. C. del Valle, A. V. Turbiner 

Publication date: 24 August 2021

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the general $D$-dimensional radial anharmonic oscillator with potential $V(r)=frac1g^2,hatV(gr)$ the Perturbation Theory (PT) in powers of coupling constant $g$ (weak coupling regime) and in inverse, fractional powers of $g$ (strong coupling regime) is developed constructively in $r$-space and in $(gr)$ space, respectively. The Riccati-Bloch (RB) equation and Generalized Bloch (GB) equation are introduced as ones which govern dynamics in coordinate $r$-space and in $(gr)$-space, respectively, exploring the logarithmic derivative of wavefunction $y$. It is shown that PT in powers of $g$ developed in RB equation leads to Taylor expansion of $y$ at small $r$ while being developed in GB equation leads to a new form of semiclassical expansion at large $(gr)$: it coincides with loop expansion in path integral formalism. In complementary way PT for large $g$ developed in RB equation leads to an expansion of $y$ at large $r$ and developed in GB equation leads to an expansion at small $(gr)$. Interpolating all four expansions for $y$ leads to a compact function (called the {it Approximant}), which should uniformly approximate the exact eigenfunction at $rin[0,infty)$ for any coupling constant $ggeq0$ and dimension $D>0$. Free parameters of the Approximant are fixed by taking it as a trial function in variational calculus. As a concrete application the low-lying states of the cubic anharmonic oscillator $V=r^2+g{r}^3$ are considered. It is shown that the relative deviation of the Approximant from the exact ground state eigenfunction is $lesssim10^{-4}$ for $rin[0,infty)$ for coupling constant $ggeq0$ and dimension $D=1,2,ldots$. In turn, the variational energies of the low-lying states are obtained with unprecedented accuracy 7-8 s.d. for $ggeq0$ and $D=1,2,ldots$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03799

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryvariational methodsemiclassical approximationanharmonic oscillator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) 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) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Forced motions in linear vibration theory (70J35)

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