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Scattering with real-time path integrals

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-09-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Sharp-momentum transition matrix elements for scattering from a short-range Gaussian potential are computed using a real-time path integral. The computation is based on a numerical implementation of a new interpretation of the path integral as the expectation of a potential functional with respect to a complex probability distribution on cylinder sets of paths. The method is closely related to a unitary transfer matrix computation.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02543,
  title  = {Scattering with real-time path integrals},
  author = {W. N. Polyzou and Ekaterina Nathanson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02543},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, contribution to the 22nd International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics

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