Smearing formula for higher-order effective classical potentials

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/41/005MaRDI QIDQ4950224zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Werner Kürzinger, Axel Pelster, Hagen Kleinert

Publication date 8 May 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806016

zbMATH Keywords

evaluation of path integralsground-state energyquantum fluctuationsRayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation expansionsingular Coulomb potentialsmearing formulavariational perturbation theoryzero-temperature limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: In the variational approach to quantum statistics, a smearing formula describes efficiently the consequences of quantum fluctuations upon an interaction potential. The result is an effective classical potential from which the partition function can be obtained by a simple integral. In this work, the smearing formula is extended to higher orders in the variational perturbation theory. An application to the singular Coulomb potential exhibits the same fast convergence with increasing orders that has been observed in previous variational perturbation expansions of the anharmonic oscillator with quartic potential.

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