A NEW GENERAL APPROXIMATION SCHEME IN QUANTUM THEORY: APPLICATION TO THE ANHARMONIC AND THE DOUBLE WELL OSCILLATORS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X05022408zbMATH Open1070.81054arXivquant-ph/0406036MaRDI QIDQ5314552FDOQ5314552

Authors: Bimal P. Mahapatra, N. Santi, N. B. Pradhan 

Publication date: 5 September 2005

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

Abstract: A new scheme of approximation in quantum theory is proposed which is potentially applicable to arbtrary interacting systems. The method consists in in approximating the original Hamiltonian by one corresponding to a suitable exactly solvable system (with interaction) such that the "quantum average" of both are equal, thus forcing self-consistency.The method transcends the limitations of the variational method and the perturbation theory.The results are systematically improvable by the construction of a improved perturbation theory (IPT) which automatically satisfies the condition of convergence. Uniformly accurate results are obtained for the case of the quartic-,sextic- and octic anharmonic oscillators as well as the quartic and sextic double well oscillators. The leading order results reproduce earlier results by different methods using different input assumptions.The results for the sextic oscillators agree well with exact prediction of supersymmetry. We also discuss the stability and structure of the effective vacuum state of the approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406036

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zbMATH Keywords

improved convergent perturbation theorynonperturbative general approximation schemequantum theory of anharmonic- and the double well oscillatorssupersymmetry and iso-spectralityvacuum structure and stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Divergence of Perturbation Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics

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