Oscillators with quartic anharmonicity: Approximate energy levels

Donald G. Truhlar

doi:10.1016/0022-2852(71)90123-8

Oscillators with quartic anharmonicity: Approximate energy levels

Donald G. Truhlar

Chemistry (Twin Cities)

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A variation-perturbation method is presented for obtaining approximate eigenvalues of quantum mechanical oscillators with the potential energy function V(x) = ax⁴ + cx². Numerical results show that solution of a cubic equation can often yield energy differences between the levels accurate to better than 0.001%. The method is accurate for both high and low quantum numbers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	415-421
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of molecular spectroscopy
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2852(71)90123-8
State	Published - May 1971

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