Some application of scaling transformations

A simple scaling approach for the perturbed anharmonic oscillator is shown to be superior to more complicated approaches suggested by other authors. The value of calculations using implicit wavefunctions is illustrated for several examples.     

The partition function of the three-dimensional anharmonic oscillator

The thermodynamic perturbation theory is applied to the three-dimensional anharmonic oscillator. Numerical results are obtained for the partition function of the quartic anharmonic oscillator.     

Modified Perturbation Theory of an Anharmonic Oscillator

A modification of the perturbation theory of a symmetrical anharmonic oscillator is suggested. A more complex zero-order approximation of perturbation theory that considers to a certain degree anharmonicities is chosen rather than a harmonic oscillator model. This approximation is an analog of the self-consistent field model well known in the theory of many-particle systems. A comparison of modified and conventional perturbation theories demonstrates that the modified perturbation theory has much wider applicability range. It can be used for larger values of the parameters at which the conventional perturbation theory becomes inapplicable, namely, for strong anharmonicity and upper energy levels.     

广义非简谐振子的多尺度微扰理论

应用多尺度微扰理论到广义非简谐振子, 得到了一阶经典和量子微扰解. 特别是 我们的量子解在极限条件下能方便地转变为经典解, 并且坐标和动量算符的对易 关系的简化十分自然. 与Taylor级数解相比较, 无论是在经典还是在量子解 中频率移动都出现在各阶振动表达式中, 所以多尺度微扰解是弱耦合非简谐振动的较好解法.     

Splitting of Spectra in Anharmonic Oscillators Described by Kratzer Potential Function

A perturbation theory model that describes splitting of the spectra in highly symmetrical molecular species in electrostatic field is proposed. An anahrmonic model of a two-dimensional oscillator having Kratzer potential energy functionis used to model the molecular species and to represent the unperturbed system. A selection rule for the radial quantum number of the oscillator is derived. The eigenfunctions of a two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator in cylindrical coordinates are used for the matrix elements representing the probability for energy transitions in dipole approximation to be calculated. Several forms of perturbation operators are proposed to model the interactionbetween the polyatomic molecular species and an electrostatic field. It is found that the degeneracy is removed in the presence of the electric field and spectral splitting occurs. Anharmonic approximation for the unperturbed system is more accurate and reliable representation of a real polyatomic molecular species.     

New Variational Perturbation Theory Based on q−Deformed Oscillator

A new variational perturbation theory is developed based on the q−deformed oscillator. It is shown that the new variational perturbation method provides 200 and 10 times better accuracy for the ground state energy of anharmonic oscillator than the Gaussian and the post Gaussian approximation, respectively, for weak coupling.     

Borel convergence of the variationally improved mass expansion and dynamical symmetry breaking

A modification of perturbation theory, known as the delta expansion (variationally improved perturbation), gave rigorously convergent series in some D=1 models (oscillator energy levels) with factorially divergent ordinary perturbative expansions. In a generalization of the variationally improved perturbation technique appropriate to renormalizable asymptotically free theories, we show that the large expansion orders of certain physical quantities are similarly improved, and prove the Borel convergence of the corresponding series for , with the new (arbitrary) mass perturbation parameter. We argue that non-ambiguous estimates of quantities relevant to dynamical (chiral) symmetry breaking in QCD are possible in this resummation framework. Received: 25 February 2002 / Published online: 8 May 2002     

A perturbation theory for identifying quasi-coupled states of an anharmonic oscillator

A perturbation theory designed for calculating quasi-coupled or coupled state energies and which is valid at any value of the coupling parameter is constructed in an example of an anharmonic oscillator with quartic nonlinearity.     

On the anharmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics and in field theory

A modified Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation method is used to derive explicit expansions for the eigenvalues and eigensolutions of the anharmonic oscillator. We then point out the dual relationship between the anharmonic oscillator and the Schrödinger equation for a Yukawa potential. Finally we consider an application of the method to a field-theoretic Hamiltonian, since the anharmonic oscillator plays a dominant role in many field-theoretic models.     

Perturbation theory and hypervirial theorems for the anharmonic oscillator

It is shown that a rapid and reliable evaluation of the energies and expectation values for an arbitrary bound state of the anharmonic oscillator within the entire range of the parameter λ can be made, based on a rearranged perturbation theory expansion using the hypervirial theorems.     

An improved variation-perturbation technique for the partition function of anharmonic oscillators

A new factorization of the hamiltonian is applied to statistical-variation-perturbation theory. The zero order variational hamiltonian already contains the diagonal perturbation part. The partition function (PF) of the quartic anharmonic oscillator is in very good agreement with numerical results.     

Comment on: Modified perturbation series for the anharmonic oscillator using linearization technique

Following the argument of Halliday and Suranyi (1980), we find that the perturbation series for the anharmonic oscillator using linearization technique of random phase approximation (Ullah 1985) will lead to divergent result. A remedy for this is also suggested.     

Residue-squaring diagonalisation method and the anharmonic oscillator

A recently-formulated residue-squaring method for perturbation problems is subjected to an exacting test in its application to the problem of diagonalising the Hamiltonian of the nonlinear oscillator with quartic anharmonicity. Unlike other methods, this new iterative diagonalisation method enables several eigenvalues to be calculated simultaneously with little more labour than for a single eigenvalue. Values obtained for the four lowest even-parity levels of the anharmonic oscillator from just two or three iterations are shown to agree well with earlier accurate calculations. An approximate analytical formula for the energy levels is also presented.     

Anharmonic vibrational wave functions, infrared band intensities, and dipole moments of water

A new and simple method to expand the anharmonic vibrational wave functions with respect to the harmonic oscillator wave functions is proposed. The coefficients of the expansion are given as matrix elements of the S function of the contact transformation in the perturbation theory and the explicit expressions of these coefficients are given within the approximation to the second order in λ. As an example of the expansion, the wave functions of water molecules were calculated and applied to the calculation of infrared band intensities and average values of dipole moments in several states.     

Approximate vacuums in (:φ2m :g(x))2 field theories and perturbation series

A class of perturbation problems is considered, in which the Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation series for the ground state eigenvalue and eigenvector are presumed to diverge. This class includes the (:^2m :g(x))₂, (m=2, 3) quantum field theory models and the quantum mechanical anharmonic oscillator. It is shown that, using matrix elements and vectors which occur in the series coefficients, one may construct convergent approximants to the eigenvalue and eigenvector. Results of a calculation of the ground state energy of thex ⁴ anharmonic oscillator are given.Supported in part by the National Research Council of Canada.     

Variational perturbation theory. Anharmonic oscillator

A nonperturbative method is suggested for calculating functional integrals. Its efficiency is demonstrated for the quantum-mechanical anharmonic oscillator. A quantity we are interested in is represented by a series, a finite number of terms of which describes not only the region of small coupling constants but well reproduces the strong coupling limit. The method is formulated only in terms of the Gaussian functional quadratures and diagrams are used of the conventional perturbation theory.     

On perturbation theory for an asymmetric anharmonic oscillator

A modified perturbation theory is formulated for an asymmetric anharmonic oscillator based on a choice of the main approximation constructed by analogy with the self-consistent field model. This perturbation theory has a much wider range of application in comparison with the standard approach and considers a finite number of energy levels in the potential well already in the main approximation. This approach is used for the construction of a two-atomic model of a quantum crystal. A quantum analog of the Lindeman criterion is obtained. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 30–40, January, 2009.     

Renormalized perturbation theory for a multiplicative noise system

We study an anharmonic overdamped oscillator driven by both additive and multiplicative Gaussian white noise. Within the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism we employ renormalized perturbation theory to calculate the stationary correlation function and the response function of the oscillator variable. Due to the absence of a simple fluctuation-dissipation theorem renormalization cannot make use of exact stationary moments, but is perormed with the help of renormalization conditions.     

Multi-instantons and exact results IV: Path integral formalism

This is the fourth paper in a series devoted to the large-order properties of anharmonic oscillators. We attempt to draw a connection of anharmonic oscillators to field theory, by investigating the partition function in the path integral representation around both the Gaussian saddle point, which determines the perturbative expansion of the eigenvalues, as well as the nontrivial instanton saddle point. The value of the classical action at the saddle point is the instanton action which determines the large-order properties of perturbation theory by a dispersion relation. In order to treat the perturbations about the instanton, one has to take into account the continuous symmetries broken by the instanton solution because they lead to zero-modes of the fluctuation operator of the instanton configuration. The problem is solved by changing variables in the path integral, taking the instanton parameters as integration variables (collective coordinates). The functional determinant (Faddeev–Popov determinant) of the change of variables implies nontrivial modifications of the one-loop and higher-loop corrections about the instanton configuration. These are evaluated and compared to exact WKB calculations. A specific cancellation mechanism for the first perturbation about the instanton, which has been conjectured for the sextic oscillator based on a nonperturbative generalized Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization condition, is verified by an analytic Feynman diagram calculation.     

Perturbation theory with band-matrix propagators

A new version of the Rayleigh-Schrödinger type of perturbation theory is presented. It is based on a rearrangement of hamiltonians H=T+λV containing a non-diagonal (band-matrix, strong-coupling) zero-order component T. Its efficiency is illustrated on the anharmonic oscillator.