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arXiv:1605.01419 · Applied Mathematics

Green’s Function for the Quartic Oscillator

R. L. Anderson

Published Jan 1, 2016• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this paper, a quantum mechanical Green’s function for the quartic oscillator is presented. This result is built upon two previous papers: first [1], detailing the linearization of the quartic oscillator (qo) to the harmonic oscillator (ho); second [2], the integration of the classical action function for the quartic oscillator. Here an equivalent form for the quartic oscillator action function in terms of harmonic oscillator variables is derived in order to facilitate the derivation of the quartic oscillator Green’s Function, namely in fixing its amplitude.

DOI
10.4236/am.2016.714135

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This paper shows how to calculate the terms of a semiclassical (WKB) expansion of the quantum-mechanical propagator corresponding to the quartic anharmonic-oscillator potential, V=mω2q2/2 +λq4/4. This nonperturbative treatment expresses each term in the series as a path integral, which is then evaluated in the framework of a formalism, introduced by C. DeWitt-Morette, which does not entail the usual time-slicing operation followed by a limiting procedure. The Gaussian measure used absorbs all the quadratic terms in the expansion of the action functional about a classical path. The covariance of this Gaussian measure is Feynman’s Green function for the small-disturbance operator of the system. This function can be obtained by varying the constants of integration in the classical solution, and therefore the coefficients of the expansion depend only on this classical solution. If the latter is chosen to be the one which tends to its harmonic counterpart when λ→0, then it is seen that the propagator also tends to its harmonic counterpart when λ→0.
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The initial value problem in quantum mechanics is most conveniently solved by the Green function method. Instead of the conventional methods of eigenfunction expansion and path integration, we present a new method for constructing the Green functions systematically. By using suitable elementary transformations, one of the conjugate variables in the Hamiltonian can be eliminated and the Green function for the simplified Hamiltonian can be easily derived. We then obtain the Green function for the original Hamiltonian by the reverse sequence of the elementary transformations. The method is illustrated for the linear potential, the harmonic oscillator, the centrifugal potential, and the centripetal barrier oscillator.