The problem of a hydrogen atom in a cavity: Oscillator representation solution versus analytic solution

A solution to the problem of a hydrogenic atom in a homogeneous dielectric medium with a concentric spherical cavity using the oscillator representation method (ORM) is presented. The results obtained by the ORM are compared with a known exact analytic solution. The energy levels of the hydrogenic atom in a spherical cavity exhibit a shallow-deep instability as a function of the cavity radius. The sharpness of the transition depends on the value of the dielectric constant of the medium. The results of the ORM agree well with the results obtained by the analytic solution when the shallow-deep transition is not too sharp (i.e., when the dielectric constant is not too large) for all values of the cavity radius. The ORM results in the zeroth order approximation diverge significantly in the region of the shallow-deep transition (i.e., for the values of the radius where the shallow-deep transition occurs) when the dielectric constant is high and as a result the transition is sharp. Even for the sharp transition, the ORM results again agree very well with the analytic results at least for the ground state when a commonly used approximation in the ORM is removed. The ORM methodology for the cavity model presented in this article can potentially be used for two-electron systems in a quantum dot.

A NONPERTURBATIVE CALCULATION FOR THE EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL OF THE $\left(\frac{g}{4}\phi^{4}-J\phi\right)_{1+1}$ SCALAR FIELD THEORY USING THE OSCILLATOR REPRESENTATION METHOD WITH BOREL RESUMMATION

We established a resummed formula for the effective potential of [Formula: see text] scalar field theory that can mimic the true effective potential not only at the critical region but also at any point in the coupling space. We first extend the effective potential from the oscillator representation method, perturbatively, up to g3 order. We supplement perturbations by the use of a resummation algorithm, originally due to Kleinert, Thoms and Janke, which has the privilege of using the strong coupling as well as the large coupling behaviors rather than the conventional resummation techniques which use only the large order behavior. Accordingly, although the perturbation series available is up to g3 order, we found a good agreement between our resummed effective potential and the well-known features from constructive field theory. The resummed effective potential agrees well with the constructive field theory results concerning existing and order of phase transition in the absence of an external magnetic field. In the presence of the external magnetic field, as in magnetic systems, the effective potential shows nonexistence of phase transition and gives the behavior of the vacuum condensate as a monotonic increasing function of J, in complete agreement with constructive field theory methods.

Oscillator Representation and Generalized van der Waals Hamiltonians

The oscillator representation method is extended to calculate the energy spectrum of bound state systems described by axially symmetrical potentials in the parabolic system coordinates. In particular, it is applied to calculate the energy of the ground and excited states of the hydrogen atom in the uniform electric field and van der Waals field. The method gives the perturbation formulas for the analytic spectrum of the hydrogen atom in the generalized van der Waals field and defines oscillator strengths for transitions from the ground state to the perturbed manifold n=10, m=0.

MESIC MOLECULES OF LIGHT NUCLEI IN THE OSCILLATOR REPRESENTATION

The mesic molecules (HμNZ), where H is the hydrogen isotopes (p, d, t) and NZ are nuclei with charges Z=2, 3, 4, …and masses MZ=2Zmp, are studied. The energy values of the ground state for the mesic molecules of light nuclei have been calculated by using the oscillator representation method. The dependence of the binding energies of the muonic molecules on nuclear charges and the critical values of nuclear charges are obtained.