Published January 9, 2009 | Version v1
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

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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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