Unify the Effect of Anharmonicity in Double-Wells and Anharmonic Oscillators

Abstract

We study the effect of anharmonicity in quantum anharmonic oscillators, by computing the energy gap between the ground and the 1st excited state using the numerical bootstrap method. Based on perturbative formulae of limiting coupling regimes, we propose a qualitative formula of the energy gap across all coupling values. Except detailed numerical parameter values, the proposed formula has the same functional form as the formula of ground state level splitting of double-well potentials, proposed recently in arXiv:2308.11516. This unifies the effects of anharmonicity in both the anharmonic oscillators and the double-well potentials, although the underlying physical process of them are completely different. We give an explanation of this connection of their anharmonicity from the viewpoint of quantum phase transitions. This connection is justified up to the octic anharmonicities by the numerical bootstrap.