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The Quartic Oscillator: a Non-Perturbative Study by Continuous Unitary Transformations S´ebastien Dusuel1,3 , G¨otz S. Uhrig2,1 1Institut f¨ur Theoretische Physik, Universit¨at zu K¨oln, Z¨ulpicher Str. 77, 50937 K¨oln, Germany 2Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 3Laboratoire de Physique, UMR-CNRS 5672, ENS Lyon, 46 All´ee d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France 4 0 The quantum quartic oscillator is investigated in order to test the manybody technique of the 0 continuous unitary transformations. The quartic oscillator is sufficiently simple to allow a detailed 2 study and comparison of various approximation schemes. Due to its simplicity, it can be used as pedagogical introduction in the unitary transformations. Both the spectrum and the spectral p e weights are discussed. S PACS numbers: 11.10.Gh,11.10.Hi,05.10.Cc,03.65.Db 5 1 I. INTRODUCTION netic energy and a potential with quadratic and quartic ] l parts. We will abbreviate the oscillator comprising both e- Quantum manybody systems often can be simplified a quadratic and a quartic part in the potential by QO; r considerably by choosing an appropriate basis. This is the one which has only a quartic one is called the pure t s. the first step where the qualitative understanding of the quartic oscillator (PQO). This model has often been in t system enters. If the problem is first formulated in a ba vestigated as testbed for