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Application of Pad´e interpolation to stationary state problems C. N. Leung∗ and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong† Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 If the small and large coupling behavior of a physical system can be computed perturbatively and expressed respectively as power series in a coupling parameter g and 1/g, a Pad´e approximant embracing the two series can interpolate between these two limits and provide an accurate estimate of the system’s behavior in the generally intractable intermediate coupling regime. The methodol- ogy and validity of this approach is illustrated by considering several stationary state problems in quantum mechanics. I. INTRODUCTION rameters. An example is a system for which the Hamil- tonian H , although itself not exactly soluble, can be ex- A Pad´e approximation is a formal transformation of pressed as a sum of two constituent Hamiltonians, H1 and H , both with known exact solutions. It was pro- the first n terms in the power series for a function f (x) 2 into a rational function. The rational function R(x), posed in Ref. 2 that, by tagging either H1 or H2 with an known as the Pad´e approximant, typically comprises a interpolation parameter λ, the two required perturbative ratio of two polynomials of x, chosen in a way that a Tay- series in opposite limits of λ could be generated, and lor expansion of R(x) complete