From quartic anharmonic oscillator to double well potential

Quantum quartic single-well anharmonic oscillator Vao(x) = x2 + g2x4 and double-well anharmonic oscillator Vdw(x) = x2(1−gx)2 are essentially one-parametric, they depend on a combination (g2ℏ). Hence, these problems are reduced to study the potentials Vao = u2 + u4 and Vdw = u2(1 − u)2, respectively...

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Published in:Acta Polytechnica
Main Authors: Alexander V. Turbiner, Juan Carlos del Valle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CTU Central Library 2022-02-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/ap/article/view/7671
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Summary:Quantum quartic single-well anharmonic oscillator Vao(x) = x2 + g2x4 and double-well anharmonic oscillator Vdw(x) = x2(1−gx)2 are essentially one-parametric, they depend on a combination (g2ℏ). Hence, these problems are reduced to study the potentials Vao = u2 + u4 and Vdw = u2(1 − u)2, respectively. It is shown that by taking uniformly-accurate approximation for anharmonic oscillator eigenfunction Ψao(u), obtained recently, see JPA 54 (2021) 295204 [1] and arXiv 2102.04623 [2], and then forming the function Ψdw(u) = Ψao(u)±Ψao(u−1) allows to get the highly accurate approximation for both the eigenfunctions of the double-well potential and its eigenvalues.
ISSN:1805-2363