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Solving the Anharmonic Oscillator: Tuning the Boundary Condition
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- We outline a remarkably efficient method for generating solutions to quantum anharmonic oscillators with an x^{2M} potential. We solve the Schroedinger equation in terms of a free parameter which is then tuned to give the correct boundary condition by generating a power series expansion of the wavefunction in x and applying a modified Borel resummation technique to obtain the large x behaviour. The process allows us to calculate energy eigenvalues to an arbitrary level of accuracy. High degrees of precision are achieved even with modest computing power. Our technique extends to all levels of excitation and produces the correct solution to the double well oscillators even though they are dominated by non-perturbative effects.<br />10 pages, 4 figures. V3 contains minor changes made before final publication
- Subjects :
- Statistics and Probability
Physics
Power series
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Anharmonicity
Mathematical analysis
FOS: Physical sciences
General Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Schrödinger equation
symbols.namesake
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Modeling and Simulation
symbols
Boundary value problem
Resummation
Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Wave function
Mathematical Physics
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Free parameter
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5858158c3af3c13bdabc5ca5e408bef4