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Splitting instability: The unstable double wells. (English) Zbl 0904.47069

Summary: We perform the semiclassical analysis of a pair of resonances in the case of a quasi-symmetrical unstable double well. We consider two kinds of asymmetric perturbations: one supported in the infinite external well, the other one of the Stark kind. We prove that the first perturbation is able to localize each state inside one of the internal wells so that we have linear Stark effect and vanishing of the splitting at the crossing point of the two resonances. This phenomenon is critical in the ratio between the internal and external barrier lengths, and the critical value of the ratio is close to two. Possible applications to the molecular structure and to the vanishing of the inversion frequency are briefly discussed.

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47N50 Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences
81Q20 Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory
81Q15 Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory
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