Uniform semiclassical approximation in quantum statistical mechanics
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❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech
hep-thquant-ph
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approximationquantumsemiclassicalappliedcausticscomplexdealdouble-well
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We present a simple method to deal with caustics in the semiclassical approximation to the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum system. The procedure, which makes use of complex trajectories, is applied to the quartic double-well potential.
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