Asymptotic and exact series representations for the incomplete Gamma function

Using a variational approach, two new series representations for the incomplete Gamma function are derived: the first is an asymptotic series, which contains and improves over the standard asymptotic expansion; the second is a uniformly convergent series, completely analytical, which can be used to obtain arbitrarily accurate estimates of $\Gamma(a,x)$ for any value of $a$ or $x$. Applications of these formulas are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure

The period of a classical oscillator

We develop a simple method to obtain approximate analytical expressions for the period of a particle moving in a given potential. The method is inspired to the Linear Delta Expansion (LDE) and it is applied to a large class of potentials. Precise formulas for the period are obtained.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Further analysis of the connected moments expansion

We apply the connected moments expansion to simple quantum--mechanical examples and show that under some conditions the main equations of the approach are no longer valid. In particular we consider two--level systems, the harmonic oscillator and the pure quartic oscillator.Comment: 19 pages; 2 tables; 4 figure

Comment on: "Analytical approximations for the collapse of an empty spherical bubble"

We analyze the Rayleigh equation for the collapse of an empty bubble and provide an explanation for some recent analytical approximations to the model. We derive the form of the singularity at the second boundary point and discuss the convergence of the approximants. We also give a rigorous proof of the asymptotic behavior of the coefficients of the power series that are the basis for the approximate expressions

Bound states for the quantum dipole moment in two dimensions

We calculate accurate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Schr\"odinger equation for a two-dimensional quantum dipole. This model proved useful for the study of elastic effects of a single edge dislocation. We show that the Rayleigh-Ritz variational method with a basis set of Slater-type functions is considerably more efficient than the same approach with the basis set of point-spectrum eigenfunctions of the two-dimensional hydrogen atom used in earlier calculations

Small-energy series for one-dimensional quantum-mechanical models with non-symmetric potentials

We generalize a recently proposed small-energy expansion for one-dimensional quantum-mechanical models. The original approach was devised to treat symmetric potentials and here we show how to extend it to non-symmetric ones. Present approach is based on matching the logarithmic derivatives for the left and right solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation at the origin (or any other point chosen conveniently) . As in the original method, each logarithmic derivative can be expanded in a small-energy series by straightforward perturbation theory. We test the new approach on four simple models, one of which is not exactly solvable. The perturbation expansion converges in all the illustrative examples so that one obtains the ground-state energy with an accuracy determined by the number of available perturbation corrections

Comment on: `Numerical estimates of the spectrum for anharmonic PT symmetric potentials' [Phys. Scr. \textbf{85} (2012) 065005]

We show that the authors of the commented paper draw their conclusions from the eigenvalues of truncated Hamiltonian matrices that do not converge as the matrix dimension increases. In one of the studied examples the authors missed the real positive eigenvalues that already converge towards the exact eigenvalues of the non-Hermitian operator and focused their attention on the complex ones that do not. We also show that the authors misread Bender's argument about the eigenvalues of the harmonic oscillator with boundary conditions in the complex-$x$ plane (Rep. Prog. Phys. {\bf 70} (2007) 947).Comment: 7 pages, 1 tabl

Particle correlation from uncorrelated non Born-Oppenheimer SCF wavefunctions

We analyse a nonadiabatic self-consistent field method by means of an exactly-solvable model. The method is based on nuclear and electronic orbitals that are functions of the cartesian coordinates in the laboratory-fixed frame. The kinetic energy of the center of mass is subtracted from the molecular Hamiltonian operator in the variational process. The results for the simple model are remarkably accurate and show that the integration over the redundant cartesian coordinates leads to couplings among the internal ones