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Gravitational R\'enyi computations have traditionally been described in the language of Euclidean path integrals. In the semiclassical limit, such calculations are governed by Euclidean (or, more generally, complex) saddle-point geometries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-23 Jesse Held , Xiaoyi Liu , Donald Marolf , Zhencheng Wang

We present a new formulation for the emergence of classical dynamics in a quantum world by considering a path integral approach that also incorporates continuous measurements. Our program is conceptually different from the decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Harsh Arora , Bishal Kumar Das , Baladitya Suri , Vaibhav Madhok

We argue that the Lorentzian path integral is a better starting point for quantum cosmology than the Euclidean version. In particular, we revisit the mini-superspace calculation of the Feynman path integral for quantum gravity with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Job Feldbrugge , Jean-Luc Lehners , Neil Turok

Introduction Path Integrals - Introduction - Propagator - Free Particle - Path Integral Representation of Quantum Mechanics - Particle on a Ring - Particle in a Box - Driven Harmonic Oscillator - Semiclassical Approximation - Imaginary Time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Gert-Ludwig Ingold

The factorization technique for superintegrable Hamiltonian systems is revisited and applied in order to obtain additional (higher-order) constants of the motion. In particular, the factorization approach to the classical anisotropic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Angel Ballesteros , Francisco J. Herranz , Sengul Kuru , Javier Negro

A kink-based expression for the canonical partition function is developed using Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and a discrete basis set. The approach is exact for a complete set of states. The method is tested on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall W. Hall

We propose a new rigorous time-slicing construction of the phase space Path Integrals for propagators both in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory for a fairly general class of quantum observables (e.g. the Schroedinger hamiltonians…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Dynin

The fractional Hamiltonian analysis of 1+1 dimensional field theory is investigated and the fractional Ostrogradski's formulation is obtained. The fractional path integral of both simple harmonic oscillator with an acceleration-squares part…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dumitru Baleanu , Sami I. Muslih , Kenan Tas

The path integral by which quantum field theories are defined is a particular solution of a set of functional differential equations arising from the Schwinger action principle. In fact these equations have a multitude of additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gerald Guralnik , Zachary Guralnik

We study the path integral formulation of Friedmann universe filled with a massless scalar field in loop quantum cosmology. All the isotropic models of $k=0,+1,-1$ are considered. To construct the path integrals in the timeless framework, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 Haiyun Huang , Yongge Ma , Li Qin

The canonical operator quantisation formulation corresponding to the Klauder-Daubechies construction of the phase space path integral is considered. This formulation is explicitly applied and solved in the case of the harmonic oscillator,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Govaerts , Calvin Matondo Bwayi , Olivier Mattelaer

In the present manuscript, we employ the Feynman path integral method to derive the propagator in one-dimensional Wigner-Dunkl quantum mechanics. To verify our findings we calculate the propagator associated with the free particle and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu , B. Khantoul

These lectures are intended for graduate students who want to acquire a working knowledge of path integral methods in a wide variety of fields in physics. In general the presentation is elementary and path integrals are developed in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-01 R. Rosenfelder

It is apparent to anyone who thinks about it that, to a large degree, the basic concepts of Newtonian physics are quite intuitive, but quantum mechanics is not. My purpose in this talk is to introduce you to a new, much more intuitive way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 Marvin Weinstein

In this paper we develop the alternative path-integral approach to quantum mechanics. We present a resolvent of a Hamiltonian (which is Laplace transform of a evolution operator) in a form which has a sense of ``the sum over paths'' but it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Putrov

We construct the systems of the harmonic and Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators, which are invariant with respect to arbitrary noncompact Lie algebras. The equations of motion of these systems can be obtained with the help of the formalism of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Nikolay Kozyrev , Sergey Krivonos

These notes were inspired by the course ''Quantum Field Theory from a Functional Integral Point of View'' given at the University of Zurich in Spring 2017 by Santosh Kandel. We describe Feynman's path integral approach to quantum mechanics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Nima Moshayedi

By applying the recurrence approach and coupling constant metamorphosis, we construct higher order integrals of motion for the Stackel equivalents of the $N$-dimensional superintegrable Kepler-Coulomb model with non-central terms and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Md Fazlul Hoque , Ian Marquette , Yao-Zhong Zhang

The electron motion along a chain is described by a continuum version of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian in which phonon fields and electronic coordinates are mapped onto the time scale. The path integral formalism allows us to derive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Zoli

We derive the first order canonical formulation of cosmological perturbation theory in a Universe filled by a few scalar fields. This theory is quantized via well-defined Hamiltonian path integral. The propagator which describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Anderegg , V. Mukhanov