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In this letter, we derive the path integral action of a particle in $\kappa$-Minkowski spacetime. The equation of motion for an arbitrary potential due to the $\kappa$-deformation of the Minkowski spacetime is then obtained. The action…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Ravikant Verma , Debabrata Ghorai , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We {\em derive} the exact configuration space path integral, together with the way how to evaluate it, from the Hamiltonian approach for any quantum mechanical system in flat spacetime whose Hamiltonian has at most two momentum operators.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Skenderis , P. van Nieuwenhuizen

A path-integral approach for the computation of quantum-mechanical propagators and energy Green's functions is presented. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to singular interactions, with particular emphasis on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

We introduce a double-folded operator that, upon iterative application, generates a dynamical system with two types of trajectories: a cyclic one and, another that grows endlessly on parabolas. These trajectories produce two distinct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Cristian Cobeli , Alexandru Zaharescu

We study right tail large deviations of the logarithm of the partition function for directed lattice paths in i.i.d. random potentials. The main purpose is the derivation of explicit formulas for the $1+1$-dimensional exactly solvable case…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Nicos Georgiou , Timo Seppäläinen

In this paper we address the relation between the star exponentials emerging within the Deformation Quantization formalism and Feynman's path integrals associated with propagators in quantum dynamics. In order to obtain such a relation, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Alberto Molgado

We consider Euclidean path integrals with higher derivative actions, including those that depend quadratically on acceleration, velocity and position. Such path integrals arise naturally in the study of stiff polymers, membranes with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 David S. Dean , Bing Miao , Rudi Podgornik

We simplify and generalize an approach proposed by Di Vecchia and Ravndal to describe a massive Dirac particle in external vector and scalar fields. Two different path integral representations for the propagator are derived systematically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Alexandrou , R. Rosenfelder , A. W. Schreiber

We investigate the hitherto unexplored relation between the superparticle path integral and superfield theory. Requiring that the path integral has the global symmetries of the classical action and obeys the natural composition property of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-14 Johan Grundberg , Ulf Lindström

Path-integral expressions for one-particle propagators in scalar and fermionic field theories are derived, for arbitrary mass. This establishes a direct connection between field theory and specific classical point-particle models. The role…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-22 J. W. van Holten

In the probability representation of the standard quantum mechanics, the explicit expression (and its quasiclassical van-Fleck approximation) for the ``classical'' propagator (transition probability distribution), which completely describes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olga Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

It is of interest in a variety of contexts, and in particular in the arrival time problem, to consider the quantum state obtained through unitary evolution of an initial state regularly interspersed with periodic projections onto the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. J. Halliwell , J. M. Yearsley

The harmonic oscillator propagator is found straightforwardly from the free particle propagator, within the imaginary-time Feynman path integral formalism. The derivation presented here is extremely simple, requiring only elementary…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi

Delta-function potentials in two- and three-dimensional quantum mechanics are analyzed by the incorporation of the self-adjoint extension method to the path integral formalism. The energy-dependent Green functions for free particle plus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 D. K. Park

We discuss the distribution of various estimators for extracting the diffusion constant of single Brownian trajectories obtained by fitting the squared displacement of the trajectory. The analysis of the problem can be framed in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Denis Boyer , David S. Dean

In this work we review a recently proposed transformation which is useful in order to simplify non-polynomial potentials given in the form of an exponential. As an application, it is shown that the Liouville field theory may be mapped into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Franco Ferrari , Jaroslaw Paturej

The manner in which probability amplitudes of paths sum up to form wave functions of a harmonic oscillator, as well as other, simple 1-dimensional problems, is described. Using known, closed-form, path-based propagators for each problem, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Randall M. Feenstra

In this paper we present a stepwise construction of the path integral over relativistic orbits in Euclidean spacetime. It is shown that the apparent problems of this path integral, like the breakdown of the naive Chapman-Kolmogorov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-01 Benjamin Koch , Enrique Muñoz

We use the factorization method to find the exact eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for a particle in a box with the delta function potential $V(x)=\lambda\delta(x-x_{0})$. We show that the presence of the potential results in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Pouria Pedram , M. Vahabi

We study the spin factor problem both in $3+1$ and $2+1$ dimensions which are essentially different for spin factor construction. Doing all Grassmann integrations in the corresponding path integral representations for Dirac propagator we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 D. M. Gitman , S. I. Zlatev