Quantum Statistics of Multidimensional Nonlinear Oscillators : Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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This paper presents two perturbation approaches to calculating the quantum statistics of multidimensional nonlinear oscillators in a simple, economic way. These are the power series expansion formalism and the system-specific split operator method. The former involves a harmonic reference system, while the latter allows for the use of physically motivated (anharmonic) zeroth-order representations. Both approaches are outlined with some improvements, and their possible limitations are discussed. The relative efficacy of the approaches is tested on two typical models that are often used by researchers as benchmarks for different numerical methods. Although no system-specific reference system is involved in the power series expansion of the Boltzmann operator, it quite accurately describes the quantum statistics in the entire temperature range, even though the coupling strength is rather large. Yet another important advantage of this approach is that it is essentially analytical, and therefore its numerical implementation does not require any computational effort. This makes the power series expansion technique particularly attractive for treating many-body problems. In contrast, the split operator method is found to be efficient only in the limit of separable motion. Otherwise, this approach results in a less than optimally efficient approximation for the density matrix, or even one which is worse than the standard Trotter approximation.
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1999-01-25

Quantum Statistics of Multidimensional Nonlinear Oscillators : Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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