Generalization of Euler's Summation Formula to Path Integrals
Statistical Mechanics
2011-08-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Computational Physics
Abstract
A recently developed analytical method for systematic improvement of the convergence of path integrals is used to derive a generalization of Euler's summation formula for path integrals. The first terms in this formula improve convergence of path integrals to the continuum limit from 1/N to , where is the coarseness of the discretization. Monte Carlo simulations performed on several different models show that the analytically derived speedup holds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508710,
title = {Generalization of Euler's Summation Formula to Path Integrals},
author = {Aleksandar Bogojevic and Antun Balaz and Aleksandar Belic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508710},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure, uses elsart.cls, ref. [15] resolved