The application of adaptive perturbation theory in strongly coupled double harmonic oscillator system

TL;DR

This paper applies adaptive perturbation theory to strongly coupled double harmonic oscillators, demonstrating high accuracy with deviations less than 3%, and shows it is effective for such systems.

Contribution

The study introduces the use of adaptive perturbation theory for strongly coupled double harmonic oscillators, providing analytical and numerical validation of its accuracy.

Findings

Deviations between analytical and numerical solutions are about 1-3%.

Second-order perturbation results are very close to numerical solutions, especially when n1 ≠ n2.

Adaptive perturbation theory is effective in strongly coupled double harmonic oscillator systems.

Abstract

The idea of adaptive perturbation theory is to divide a Hamiltonian into a solvable part and a perturbation part. The solvable part contains the non-interacting sector and the diagonal elements of Fock space from the interacting terms. The perturbed term is the non-diagonal sector of Fock space. Therefore, the perturbation parameter is not coupling constant. This is different from the standard procedure of previous perturbation method. In this letter, we use the adaptive perturbation theory to extract the solvable elements in the strongly coupled double harmonic oscillator system and obtain the energy spectrum of the solvable part. Then, we diagonalize the Hamiltonian to obtain the numerical solution. In order to study the accuracy of adaptive perturbation theory in the strongly coupled double harmonic oscillator system, we demonstrate the analytical study from the leading order and second-order perturbation. The deviations between the leading-order and the numerical solution show that as the gap between the quasiparticle number n1 and n2 decreases, or the coupling constant $\lambda$ increases, the gap between the exact solutions in the strongly coupling region of double harmonic oscillator system and the numerical solutions becomes smaller. Overall, the numerical gap is about 1% to 3%, which is not a bad result. The value of the second-order is quite close to the numerical solution when n1 doesn't equal n2. In most cases, the deviation is less than 1%, which means that the adaptive perturbation theory is effective for the double harmonic oscillator system in strong coupling field.