A New Algebraic Approach to Perturbation Theory

B. Gonul, N. Celik, E. Olgar

Published 2004-12-21, updated 2005-03-23Version 2

An algebraic non-perturbative approach is proposed for the analytical treatment of Schr\"{o}dinger equations with a potential that can be expressed in terms of an exactly solvable piece with an additional potential. Avoiding disadvantages of standard approaches, new handy recursion formulae with the same simple form both for ground and excited states have been obtained. As an illustration the procedure, well adapted to the use of computer algebra, is successfully applied to quartic anharmonic oscillators by means of very simple algebraic manipulations. The trend of the exact values of the energies is rather well reproduced for a large range of values of the coupling constant (g=0.001-10000).