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The quantum anharmonic crystal is made up of a large number of multidimensional anharmonic oscillators arranged in a periodic spatial lattice with a nearest neighbor coupling. If the coupling coefficient is sufficiently small, then there is a convergent expansion for the ground state of the crystal. The estimates on the convergence are independent of the size of the crystal. The proof uses the path integral representation of the ground state in terms of diffusion processes. The convergence of the cluster expansion depends on the ergodicity properties of these processes.
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Faris, W.G., Minlos, R.A. A Quantum Crystal with Multidimensional Anharmonic Oscillators. Journal of Statistical Physics 94, 365–387 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004588002407
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