Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1994-04-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Contribution to Harmonic Oscillators II, Cocoyoc, Mexico, March 23-25, 1994, 8 pages, OKHEP-94-01, LaTeX, one uuencoded figure
Scientific paper
The finite-element approach to lattice field theory is both highly accurate (relative errors $\sim1/N^2$, where $N$ is the number of lattice points) and exactly unitary (in the sense that canonical commutation relations are exactly preserved at the lattice sites). In this talk I construct matrix elements for dynamical variables and for the time evolution operator for the anharmonic oscillator, for which the continuum Hamiltonian is $H=p^2/2+\lambda q^4/4.$ Construction of such matrix elements does not require solving the implicit equations of motion. Low order approximations turn out to be extremely accurate. For example, the matrix element of the time evolution operator in the harmonic oscillator ground state gives a result for the anharmonic oscillator ground state energy accurate to better than 1\%, while a two-state approximation reduces the error to less than 0.1\%.
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