Published January 9, 2009
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Journal article
Unified Treatment of Even and Odd Anharmonic Oscillators of Arbitrary Degree
- 1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, 69029 Heidelberg (Germany)
- 2. Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla Missouri 65409-0640 (United States)
- 3. Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet, Philosophenweg 12, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
- 4. CEA, IRFU, and Institut de Physique Theorique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette (France)
Description
We present a unified treatment, including higher-order corrections, of anharmonic oscillators of arbitrary even and odd degree. Our approach is based on a dispersion relation which takes advantage of the PT symmetry of odd potentials for imaginary coupling parameter, and of generalized quantization conditions which take into account instanton contributions. We find a number of explicit new results, including the general behavior of large-order perturbation theory for arbitrary levels of odd anharmonic oscillators, and subleading corrections to the decay width of excited states for odd potentials, which are numerically significant
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.011601;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0901.4964v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 102
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 011601-011601.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40054292
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANHARMONIC OSCILLATORS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EXCITED STATES; INSTANTONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; POTENTIALS; QUANTIZATION; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY LEVELS; QUASI PARTICLES
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- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society