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Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

The path-integral calculation for the free energy of a spin-1/2 Dirac-fermion gas is performed in spherical polar coordinates for a flat spacetime geometry. Its equivalence with the Cartesian-coordinate representation is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-08 Andrew Briggs , Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

We present a unified theoretical and computational framework for constructing reproducing kernels tailored to transport equations and adapted to Koopman eigenfunctions of nonlinear dynamical systems. These eigenfunctions satisfy a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Boumediene Hamzi , Houman Owhadi , Umesh Vaidya

These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly first-year graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard MacKenzie

Motivated by algorithmic problems arising in quantum field theories whose dynamical variables are geometric in nature, we provide a quantum algorithm that efficiently approximates the colored Jones polynomial. The construction is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Garnerone , A. Marzuoli , M. Rasetti

We present the path-integral solutions to the distributions in classical (Gibbs) and quantum (Wigner) statistical mechanics. The kernel of the distributions are derived in two ways - one by time slicing and defining the appropriate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Jose A. Magpantay , Cilicia Uzziel M. Perez

The purpose of this article is to develop a theory behind the occurrence of "path-integral" kernels in the study of extended determinantal point processes and non-intersecting line ensembles. Our first result shows how determinants…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Alexei Borodin , Ivan Corwin , Daniel Remenik

Background: Path integrals are a powerful tool for solving problems in quantum theory that are not amenable to a treatment by perturbation theory. Most path integral computations require an analytic continuation to imaginary time. While…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 W. N. Polyzou , Ekaterina Nathanson

A path integral is presented that solves a general class of linear second order partial differential equations with Dirichlet/Neumann boundary conditions. Elementary kernels are constructed for both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 J. LaChapelle

In this paper we review the recently proposed path-integral counterpart of the Koopman-von Neumann operatorial approach to classical Hamiltonian mechanics. We identify in particular the geometrical variables entering this formulation and…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ennio Gozzi

Consistent dynamics which couples classical and quantum degrees of freedom exists. This dynamics is linear in the hybrid state, completely positive and trace preserving. Starting from completely positive classical-quantum master equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

We present an embedding of stochastic optimal control problems, of the so called path integral form, into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using consistent, sample based estimates of the embedding leads to a model free, non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Konrad Rawlik , Marc Toussaint , Sethu Vijayakumar

Choosing the most adequate kernel is crucial in many Machine Learning applications. Gaussian Process is a state-of-the-art technique for regression and classification that heavily relies on a kernel function. However, in the Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ibai Roman , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu , Jose A. Lozano

A path integral method, combined with atomistic spin dynamics simulations, has been developed to calculate thermal quantum expectation values using a classical approach. In this study, we show how to treat Hamiltonians with non-linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Thomas Nussle , Pascal Thibaudeau , Stam Nicolis

While it is well-known that quantum mechanics can be reformulated in terms of a path integral representation, it will be shown that such a formulation is also possible in the case of classical mechanics. From Koopman-von Neumann theory,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 James Shee

The paper is about the computation of the principal spectrum of the Koopman operator (i.e., eigenvalues and eigenfunctions). The principal eigenfunctions of the Koopman operator are the ones with the corresponding eigenvalues equal to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Shankar A. Deka , Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan , Umesh Vaidya

The rapid development of reliable Quantum Processing Units (QPU) opens up novel computational opportunities for machine learning. Here, we introduce a procedure for measuring the similarity between graph-structured data, based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Louis-Paul Henry , Slimane Thabet , Constantin Dalyac , Loïc Henriet

We clearly characterize the relation between real and complex Wiener-Ito integrals. Given a complex multiple Wiener-Ito integral, we get explicit expressions for two kernels of its real and imaginary parts. Conversely, consider a…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Huiping Chen , Yong Chen , Yong Liu

A structure-preserving kernel ridge regression method is presented that allows the recovery of nonlinear Hamiltonian functions out of datasets made of noisy observations of Hamiltonian vector fields. The method proposes a closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jianyu Hu , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Daiying Yin