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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Quantum loop expansion to high orders, extended Borel summation, and comparison with exact results
1Institutt for Fysikk, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway. aamnanoreen12@gmail.com
Abstract:
We compare predictions of the quantum loop expansion to (essentially) infinite orders with (essentially) exact results in a simple quantum mechanical model. We find that there are exponentially small corrections to the loop expansion, which cannot be explained by any obvious "instanton"-type corrections. It is not the mathematical occurrence of exponential corrections but their seeming lack of any physical origin which we find surprising and puzzling.
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