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I discuss a formalism for computing quantum scattering amplitudes using a semiclassical expansion of a functional integral representation for the S-matrix. The classical background for the expansion is determined by solving the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. H. Hsu

We study frequency domain electromagnetic scattering at a bounded, penetrable, and inhomogeneous obstacle $ \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3 $. From the Stratton-Chu integral representation, we derive a new representation formula when constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa , Ralf Hiptmair

Based on a previously developed recursive approach for calculating the short-time expansion of the propagator for systems with time-independent potentials and its time-dependent generalization for simple single-particle systems, in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-08 Antun Balaz , Ivana Vidanovic , Aleksandar Bogojevic , Aleksandar Belic , Axel Pelster

Vacuum polarization corrections to the energy levels of bound electrons are calculated using a perturbative path integral formalism. We apply quantum electrodynamics in a framework which treats the strong binding nuclear field to all…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Sreya Banerjee , Zoltán Harman

The asymptotic iteration method is used to find exact and approximate solutions of Schroedinger's equation for a number of one-dimensional trigonometric potentials (sine-squared, double-cosine, tangent-squared, and complex cotangent).…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Hakan Ciftci , Richard L. Hall , Nasser Saad

The identification of physical degrees of freedom is sometimes obscured in the path integral formalism, and this makes it difficult to impose some constraints or to do some approximations. I review a number of cases where the difficulty is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Palumbo

Exact reflection and transmission coefficients for supersymmetric shape-invariant potentials barriers are calculated by an analytical continuation of the asymptotic wave functions obtained via the introduction of new generalized ladder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. N. F. Aleixo , A. B. Balantekin , M. A. Candido Ribeiro

The path integral for relativistic spinless dionium atom is solved, and the energy spectra are extracted from the resulting amplitude.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 De-Hone Lin

The energy spectrum of two short-range interacting particles in a harmonic potential trap has previously been related to free-space scattering phase shifts. But the existing formula for this purpose is exact only in the limit of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Xilin Zhang

Damped mechanical systems with various forms of damping are quantized using the path integral formalism. In particular, we obtain the path integral kernel for the linearly damped harmonic oscillator and a particle in a uniform gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Dharmesh Jain , A. Das , Sayan Kar

We develop a scattering theory to investigate the multi-photon transmission in a one-dimensional waveguide in the presence of quantum emitters. It is based on a path integral formalism, uses displacement transformations, and does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Tao Shi , Darrick E. Chang , J. Ignacio Cirac

The real and imaginary scattering phase shifts (SPS) and potentials for $\ell=0,2,4$ partial waves have been obtained by developing a novel algorithm$^{\ref{Fig1}}$ to derive inverse potentials using a phenomenological approach. The phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Shikha Awasthi , Ishwar Kant , Anil Khachi , O. S. K. S. Sastri

The coupled discrete linear and Kerr nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and loss describing transport on dimers with parity-time PT symmetric potentials are considered. The model is relevant among others to experiments in optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-01 J. Pickton , H. Susanto

The equilibrium thermodynamics of the two dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Model is derived by means of a path integral method which accounts for the variable range of the electronic hopping processes. While the lattice degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Zoli

It is shown that the spectral points (bound states and resonances) generated by a central potential of a single-channel problem, can be found using rational parametrization of the S-matrix. To achieve this, one only needs values of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 S. A. Rakityansky , S. A. Sofianos , N. Elander

Higher order coefficients of the inverse mass expansion of one-loop effective actions are obtained from a one-dimensional path integral representation. For the case of a massive scalar loop in the background of both a scalar potential and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Fliegner , P. Haberl , M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

It is shown in the case of proton scattering on an electron gas target that the Closed Time Path formalism can handle final state interactions of the target in equilibrium in a simple and natural manner. The leading order cross section is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-18 F. Mansouri , J. Polonyi , K. Zazoua , N. Zekri

We present integral equations for the scattering amplitudes of three scalar particles, using the Faddeev channel decomposition, which can be readily extended to any finite number of particles of any helicity. The solution of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Marcus Alfred , Petero Kwizera , James V. Lindesay , H. Pierre Noyes

Path integral derivations are presented for two recently developed complex trajectory techniques for the propagation of wave packets, Complex WKB and BOMCA. Complex WKB is derived using a standard saddle point approximation of the path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jeremy Schiff , Yair Goldfarb , David J. Tannor

The cumulant representation of the Fourier path integral method is examined to determine the asymptotic convergence characteristics of the imaginary-time density matrix with respect to the number of path variables $N$ included. It is proved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Sharif D. Kunikeev , David L. Freeman , J. D. Doll