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The path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, i.e., the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over all the possible trajectories that would take the system from the initial to its final state of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Charles W. Robson , Yaraslau Tamashevich , Tapio T. Rantala , Marco Ornigotti

Feynman's path integral is herein generalized to the nonextensive canonical density matrix based on Tsallis entropy. This generalization is done in two ways by using unnormalized and normalized constraints. Firstly, we consider the path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. K. Lenzi , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes

We propose a natural, parameter-free, discrete-variable formulation of Feynman path integrals. We show that for discrete-variable quantum systems, Feynman path integrals take the form of walks on the graph whose weighted adjacency matrix is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

The concepts of phase space Feynman integrals in White Noise Analysis are established. As an example the harmonic oscillator is treated. The approach perfectly reproduces the right physics. I.e., solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Wolfgang Bock , Martin Grothaus

The study of Feynman integrals through the lens of intersection theory offers a unifying framework for their analysis, capturing both the linear and quadratic relations that arise among integrals. In doing so, it provides a powerful method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Anthony Massidda

The saddle points of a conventional Feynman path integral are not entangled, since they comprise a sequence of classical field configurations. We combine insights from field theory and tensor networks by constructing a Feynman path integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-08 A. G. Green , C. A. Hooley , J. Keeling , S. H. Simon

Path integrals are a ubiquitous tool in theoretical physics. However, their use is sometimes hindered by the lack of control on various manipulations -- such as performing a change of the integration path -- one would like to carry out in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric van Wijland

We derive the geometric quantization program of symplectic manifolds, in the sense of both Kostant-Souriau and Weinstein, from Feynman's path integral formulation on phase space. The state space we use contains states with negative norm and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Joshua Lackman

In this contribution I discuss a path integral approach for the quantum motion on two-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short ``Koenigs-Spaces''. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from two-dimensional flat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche

Although the path-integral formalism is known to be equivalent to conventional quantum mechanics, it is not generally obvious how to implement path-based calculations for multi-qubit entangled states. Whether one takes the formal view of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Narayani Tyagi , Ken Wharton

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 given article example of physical analogies to be entered information space-time. The opportunity of Poincare group use is shown for transition from one frame in another, for this purpose is entered invariant velocity of transition of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 O. I. Shro

Quantum tunneling in a many-body system is much more non-trivial than that in a one-body system. The most characteristic phenomenon is the mixed tunneling, which has been studied in many fields for decades. For instance, let us consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Yutaro Shoji

We construct a quantum theory of light in nonlinear dielectric media with dispersion and absorption. We employ a mesoscopic model for the light-matter interaction that include a fourth-order nonlinearity in the material response.…

Spacetime foam is analyzed within the simplistic model of a set of scalar fields on a flat background. We suggest the formula for the path integral which allows to account for the all possible topologies of spacetime. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-11 A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

We describe a new phenomenon in the study of the real-time path integral, where complex classical paths hit singularities of the potential and need to be analytically continued beyond the space for which they solve the boundary value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Job Feldbrugge , Dylan L. Jow , Ue-Li Pen

We follow the Feynman procedure to obtain a path integral formulation of loop quantum cosmology starting from the Hilbert space framework. Quantum geometry effects modify the weight associated with each path so that the effective measure on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 Abhay Ashtekar , Miguel Campiglia , Adam Henderson

In Euclidean path integrals, quantum mechanical tunneling amplitudes are associated with instanton configurations. We explain how tunneling amplitudes are encoded in real-time Feynman path integrals. The essential steps are borrowed from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Aleksey Cherman , Mithat Unsal

It is argued that quantum traveling of D-particles presents the ``joining-splitting'' processes of field theory Feynman graphs. The amplitudes in $d$ dimensions can be corresponded with those of a $d+2$ dimensional theory in the Light-Cone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahrokh Parvizi , Amir H. Fatollahi

Using the spectral properties of orthogonal polynomials, we introduce a finite version of quantum field theory for elementary particles. Closed-loop integrals in the Feynman diagrams for computing transition amplitudes are finite.…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 A. D. Alhaidari