We use—after a shift transformation of the variable—the Burrows,
Cohen and Feldmann
approximation procedure to solve the problem of finding the energy eigenvalues for an
anharmonic oscillator with cubic and quartic terms subjected to a linear external
potential. Both low- and high-frequency limits are considered. A first application is given
by deriving (in the high-frequency case) the partition function of a gas composed of such
anharmonic oscillators. We also exploit the recently proved formal equivalence between
a high-frequency anharmonic oscillator (in the approximation considered) and
an infinitesimally deformed harmonic oscillator to introduce SU(2) and SU(1,1)
algebras for the anharmonic oscillator with cubic and quartic terms.
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