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Studying phase transitions in interacting quantum field theories generally requires the numerical study of the dynamical system on an N-dimensional lattice, which is, in most cases, computationally quite the challenging task even with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Gabor Balassa

We here put forward a new path-integral over Hilbert space and show that it reproduces quantum mechanics exactly. This approach works by optimizing the generating functional under a variation of the final state; it is hence an example of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Sandro Donadi , Sabine Hossenfelder

An approach to evaluation of the smooth Feynman path integrals is developed for the study of quantum fluctuations of particles and fields in Euclidean time-space. The paths are described by sum of Gauss functions and are weighted with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Takayasu Sekihara

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones

An approach to approximate evaluation of the continuum Feynman path integrals is developed for the study of quantum fluctuations of particles and fields in Euclidean time-space. The paths are described by sum of Gauss functions and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Takayasu Sekihara

Many interesting physical theories have analytic classical actions. We show how Feynman's path integral may be defined non-perturbatively, for such theories, without a Wick rotation to imaginary time. We start by introducing a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Job Feldbrugge , Neil Turok

Two Lagrangian formulations for describing of the damped harmonic oscillator have been introduced by Bateman. For these models we construct higher derivative generalization which enjoys the l-conformal Newton-Hooke symmetry. The dynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Ivan Masterov

We study finite-dimensional integrals in a way that elucidates the mathematical meaning behind the formal manipulations of path integrals occurring in quantum field theory. This involves a proper understanding of how Wick's theorem allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Timothy Nguyen

In this paper we construct a path integral formulation of quantum mechanics on noncommutative phase-space. We first map the system to an equivalent system on the noncommutative plane. Then by applying the formalism of representing a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-02 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Aslam Halder

We develop a non-perturbative method for calculating partition functions of strongly coupled quantum mechanical systems with interactions between subsystems described by a path integral of a dual system. The dual path integral is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 Vitaly Vanchurin

Early efforts to understand complexity in field theory have primarily employed a geometric approach based on the concept of circuit complexity in quantum information theory. In a parallel vein, it has been proposed that certain deformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Hugo A. Camargo , Michal P. Heller , Ro Jefferson , Johannes Knaute

We study different aspects the worldline path integrals with gauge fields using quantum computing. We use the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and Evolution of Hamiltonian (EOH) quantum algorithms and IBM QISKit to perform our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Yuan Feng , Michael McGuigan

In this paper we develop a quantization method for flat compact manifolds based on path integrals. In this method the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions in the complexification of the manifold is used. This space is a reproducing kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Guillermo Capobianco , Walter Reartes

The development of instability in the dynamics of theories with higher derivatives is traced in detail in the framework of the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth oder oscillator. For this aim the external friction force is introduced in the model and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Nesterenko

This paper suggests a new way to compute the path integral for simple quantum mechanical systems. The new algorithm originated from previous research in string theory. However, its essential simplicity is best illustrated in the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ansoldi , A. Aurilia , E. Spallucci

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Thomas Elze

Feynman path integrals provide an elegant, classically inspired representation for the quantum propagator and the quantum dynamics, through summing over a huge manifold of all possible paths. From computational and simulational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

In this paper we introduce a new procedure on precise analysis of various physical manifestations in superconducting Qubits using the concept of Feynman path integral in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Three specific problem are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Ali Izadi Rad , Hesam Zandi , Mehdi Fardmanesh

This work identifies geometric effects on dynamics due to nonadiabatic couplings in Born Oppenheimer systems and provides a systematic method for deriving corrections to mixed quantum-classical methods. Specifically, an exact path integral…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vinod Krishna

Richard Feynman's method of path integrals is based on the fundamental assumption that a system starting at a point A and arriving at a point B takes all possible paths from A to B, with each path contributing its own (complex) probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Masud Mansuripur