The Double Well Done Doubly-Well

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05282v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: The Double Well Done Doubly-Well
• Abstract summary: symmetric double-well potential is one of the simplest quantum-mechanical systems in which perturbative and non-perturbative physics are deeply entangled.<n>Resurgence ties the two features together, organizing the exact spectrum into a single tightly-constrained trans-series.<n>This paper gives a self-contained account of this trans-series from two complementary approaches.
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• Abstract: The symmetric double-well potential is one of the simplest quantum-mechanical systems in which perturbative and non-perturbative physics are deeply entangled. Its energy levels have non-analytic expansions in inverse powers of the inter-well separation, with factorially growing coefficients, while the parity splitting is exponentially small and invisible to perturbation theory. Resurgence ties the two features together, organizing the exact spectrum into a single tightly-constrained trans-series. This paper gives a self-contained account of this trans-series from two complementary approaches: exact WKB and the Euclidean path integral, developed in a common notation with explicit calculations through the four-instanton level and three-loop order. In exact WKB, Stokes phenomena encoded in the Delabaere--Dillinger--Pham relations control the analytic continuation of the wavefunction past turning points. The quantization condition expressed in terms of Voros symbols then determines the full trans-series. The DDP relations are local and do not require knowing the global topology of the energy surface, but that surface is an elliptic curve. In the path integral, elliptic curves enter differently: the classical saddle points are doubly-periodic elliptic functions of Euclidean time, and Stokes phenomena play out within the finite-dimensional manifold of quasi-zero modes rather than through analytic continuation of the wavefunction. A Lefschetz thimble decomposition determines which saddles contribute, and the resulting partition function trans-series is much simpler than the energy trans-series: at each instanton order the $T$-dependence is a polynomial fixed by the quasi-zero-mode thimble integrals. Together, the two approaches deploy a shared mathematical infrastructure in complementary ways, showing that the double well is an ideal setting to explore resurgence.

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