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We present a stochastic theory of charges moving in an electromagnetic field using nonequilibrium quantum field theory. We give a first principles' derivation of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac-Langevin equation which depicts the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

Stationary distributions of complex Langevin equations are shown to be the complexified path integral solutions of the Schwinger-Dyson equations of the associated quantum field theory. Specific examples in zero dimensions and on a lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-26 Gerald Guralnik , Cengiz Pehlevan

A new idea for the quantization of dynamic systems, as well as space time itself, using a stochastic metric is proposed. The quantum mechanics of a mass point is constructed on a space time manifold using a stochastic metric. A stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-22 Yoshimasa Kurihara

Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein-Langevin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 B. L. Hu , E. Verdaguer

We develop a quantum field theory based on random nonHermitian actions, which upon quantization lead to stochastic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics for the state vector. In this framework, Lorentz and spacetime translation symmetries are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Pei Wang

It was shown recently that stochastic quantization can be made into a well defined quantization scheme on (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds using second order differential geometry, which is an extension of the commonly used first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-28 Folkert Kuipers

We asymptotically derive a non-linear Langevin-like equation with non-Gaussian white noise for a wide class of stochastic systems associated with multiple stochastic environments, by developing the expansion method in our previous paper [K.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-04 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Takahiro Sagawa , Hisao Hayakawa

We present a stochastic theory for the nonequilibrium dynamics of charges moving in a quantum scalar field based on the worldline influence functional and the close-time-path (CTP or in-in) coarse-grained effective action method. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

For a class of piecewise deterministic Markov processes we introduce a stochastic calculus which is a certain non-Gaussian counterpart to the classical Malliavin calculus. As an application we investigate the regularity of densities of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

We numerically investigate stochastic dynamics in cosmology by solving Langevin equations for Infrared (IR) modes with stochastic noises generated by Ultraviolet (UV) modes at the coarse-graining scale. By construction, the stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Masahiro Kawasaki , Tomotaka Kuroda

We construct an explicit one-to-one correspondence between non-relativistic stochastic processes and solutions of the Schrodinger equation and between relativistic stochastic processes and solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Folkert Kuipers

We establish a direct connection between the Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism for open quantum systems and the Wiener path integral used in classical stochastic dynamics. By considering a generalized influence functional in the strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Antonio Camurati , Felipe Sobrero , Bruno Suassuna , Pedro V. Paraguassú

We develop a theory of random non-Hermitian action that, after quantization, describes the stochastic nonlinear dynamics of quantum states in Hilbert space. Focusing on fermionic fields, we propose both canonical quantization and path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Pei Wang

A natural non-Markovian extension of the theory of white noise quantum trajectories is presented. In order to introduce memory effects in the formalism an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck coloured noise is considered as the output driving process. Under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 A. Barchielli , C. Pellegrini , F. Petruccione

We propose to formulate a theory for Classical Stochastic Gravity for certain applications in Astrophysics and Cosmology.This involves the Langevin approach in curved spacetime, which is introduced here, in the form of a classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Seema Satin

Stochastic quantisation normally involves the introduction of a fictitious extra time parameter, which is taken to infinity so that the system evolves to an equilibrium state.In the case of a locally supersymmetric theory, an interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-30 Hossein Farajollahi , Hugh Luckock

We study the relation between the partition function of a non--relativistic particle, that describes the equilibrium fluctuations implicitly, and the partition function of the same system, deduced from the Langevin equation, that describes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-21 Stam Nicolis

The stochastic quantisation technique of Parisi and Wu is extended to study non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We show that this scheme is capable of handling white as well as coloured noises. PACS numbers: 64.60.-i; 64.60.Ak; 64.60.Fr;…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee , Debashis Gangopadhyay

Path integrals with complex actions are encountered for many physical systems ranging from spin- or mass-imbalanced atomic gases and graphene to quantum chromo-dynamics at finite density to the non-equilibrium evolution of quantum systems.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-01 Lukas Kades , Martin Gärttner , Thomas Gasenzer , Jan M. Pawlowski

Uncertainties are abundant in complex systems. Mathematical models for these systems thus contain random effects or noises. The models are often in the form of stochastic differential equations, with some parameters to be determined by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jiarui Yang , Jinqiao Duan