Large order perturbation theory for a nonHermitian PT symmetric Hamiltonian
Dec, 1998Citations per year
Abstract:
A precise calculation of the ground-state energy of the complex PT-symmetric Hamiltonian , is performed using high-order Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory. The energy spectrum of this Hamiltonian has recently been shown to be real using numerical methods. The Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation series is Borel summable, and Pad\'e summation provides excellent agreement with the real energy spectrum. Pad\'e analysis provides strong numerical evidence that the once-subtracted ground-state energy considered as a function of is a Stieltjes function. The analyticity properties of this Stieltjes function lead to a dispersion relation that can be used to compute the imaginary part of the energy for the related real but unstable Hamiltonian .Note:
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