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This article gives a short step-by-step introduction to the representation of parametric Feynman integrals in scalar perturbative quantum field theory as periods of motives. The application of motivic Galois theory to the algebro-geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Claudia Rella

The one-sided bouncer and the symmetric bouncer involve a one-dimensional particle in a piecewise linear potential. For such problems, the time-dependent quantum mechanical propagator cannot be found in closed form. The semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yen Lee Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

The five laws of relativistic quantum mechanics, according to Feynman's path integral formulation, are concisely stated and applied to experiments. Reflection diffraction grating experiments for both photons and electrons are analysed, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. H. Field

Any acceptable quantum gravity theory must allow us to recover the classical spacetime in the appropriate limit. Moreover, the spacetime geometrical notions should be intrinsically tied to the behavior of the matter that probes them. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Yuri Bonder , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Daniel Sudarsky

The Feynman demonstration that electromagnetic field momentum is real-even for static fields-can be made more pedagogically useful by simplifying its geometry. Instead of Feynman's disk with charged balls on its surface, this article uses…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Oliver Davis Johns

A possible model for quantum kinematics of a test particle in a curved space-time is proposed. Every reasonable neighbourhood V_e of a curved space-time can be equipped with a nonassociative binary operation called the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 P. Kuusk , J. Ord

Both the physical picture of the dynamics of atoms and molecules in intense infrared fields and its theoretical description use the concept of electron trajectories. Here we address a key question which arises in this context: Are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 L. I. Plimak , Misha Yu. Ivanov

A phenomenology for the deep spatial geometry of loop quantum gravity is introduced. In the context of a simple model, an atom of space, it is shown how purely combinatorial structures can affect observations. The angle operator is used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Seth A. Major

We to define a Path Integral in Lorentzian time by restricting the relevant domain of integration on $C([0,1],M)$ over a Riemannian configuration manifold $(M,g)$ and considering the dynamics of a particle evolving between to fixed…

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Biconformal spaces contain the essential elements of quantum mechanics, making the independent imposition of quantization unnecessary. Based on three postulates characterizing motion and measurement in biconformal geometry, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Lara B. Anderson , James T. Wheeler

The Feynman path integral does not allow a "one real path" interpretation, because amplitudes contribute to probabilities in a non-separable manner. The opposite extreme, "all paths happen", is not a useful or informative account. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 K. B. Wharton

The question about the existence of so-called ``hidden'' variables in quantum mechanics and the perception of the completeness of quantum mechanics are two sides of the same coin. Quantum analytical mechanics constitutes a completion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Wolfgang Paul

We show how to construct path integrals for quantum mechanical systems where the space of configurations is a general non-compact symmetric space. Associated with this path integral is a perturbation theory which respects the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Noah Linden , Malcolm Perry

Traditional geometry employs idealized concepts like that of a point or a curve, the operational definition of which relies on the availability of classical point particles as probes. Real, physical objects are quantum in nature though,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Pedro Aguilar , Yuri Bonder , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Daniel Sudarsky

The possibility of extending the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics (QM) to a space-time symmetric form has recently attracted wide interest. In this context, a recent proposal has shown that a spacetime symmetric many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 N. L. Diaz , J. M. Matera , R. Rossignoli

In this paper we introduce a notion of Feynman geometry on which quantum field theories could be properly defined. A strong Feynman geometry is a geometry when the vector space of $A_\infty$ structures is finite dimensional. A weak Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Sen Hu , Andrey Losev

We propose the model of massive spinning particle traveling in four-dimensional Minkowski space. The equations of motion of the particle follow from the fact that all the classical paths of the particle lie on a cylinder whose position in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 D. S. Kaparulin , S. L. Lyakhovich , I. A. Retuntsev

In this paper we review a proposed geometrical formulation of quantum mechanics. We argue that this geometrization makes available mathematical methods from classical mechanics to the quantum frame work. We apply this formulation to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 G. Marmo , G. F. Volkert

It is well known that correlations predicted by quantum mechanics cannot be explained by any classical (local-realistic) theory. The relative strength of quantum and classical correlations is usually studied in the context of Bell…

We elucidate physical aspects of path signatures by formulating randomised path developments within the framework of matrix models in quantum field theory. Using tools from physics, we introduce a new family of randomised path developments…

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