A Modified Borel Summation Technique

TL;DR

This paper compares three perturbative methods for the quartic anharmonic oscillator and introduces a modified Borel summation technique that accurately determines energy eigenvalues efficiently, with improvements and error analysis.

Contribution

It presents a novel tuning approach within the modified Borel summation framework to enhance accuracy in calculating quantum energy levels.

Findings

The tuning method achieves high-precision energy eigenvalues.

Refined Borel summation improves convergence and accuracy.

Error sources are identified and corrected effectively.

Abstract

We compare and contrast three different perturbative expansions for the quartic anharmonic oscillator wavefunction and apply a modified Borel summation technique to determine the energy eigenvalues. In the first two expansions this provides the energy eigenvalues directly however in the third method we tune the wavefunctions to achieve the correct large x behaviour. This tuning technique allows us to determine the energy eigenvalues up to an arbitrary level of accuracy with remarkable efficiency. We give numerical evidence to explain this behaviour. We also refine the modified Borel summation technique to improve its accuracy. The main sources of error are investigated with reasonable error corrections calculated.