Second harmonic and mean displacement of a weakly cubic oscillator

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With , a weak cubic potential produces a nonzero mean position and a second harmonic at first order. There is no first-order frequency shift. Higher-order frequency changes can accumulate phase over sufficiently long times, so the first-order expression is not a uniform all-time approximation.

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