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Coherent states path integral formalism for the simplest quantum algebras, q-oscillator, SU_q(2) and SU_q(1,1) is introduced. In the classical limit canonical structure is derived with modified symplectic and Riemannian metric. Non-constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Demosthenes Ellinas

We solve time-sliced path integrals of one-dimensional Coulomb system in an exact manner. In formulating path integrals, we make use of the Duru-Kleinert transformation with Fujikawa's gauge theoretical technique. Feynman kernels in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Seiji Sakoda

We argue that the Path Integral formulation of Feynman can be reconciled via a Planck scale underpinning for spacetime, with fuzzy spacetime considerations.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

The mathematical similarities between non-relativistic wavefunction propagation in quantum mechanics and image propagation in scalar diffraction theory are used to develop a novel understanding of time and paths through spacetime as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sky Nelson-Isaacs

I consider the case of two interacting scalar fields, \phi and \psi, and use the path integral formalism in order to treat the first classically and the second quantum-mechanically. I derive the Feynman rules and the resulting equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Metaxas

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

The modular spaces are a family of polarizations of the Hilbert space that are based on Aharonov's modular variables and carry a rich geometric structure. We construct here, step by step, a Feynman path integral for the quantum harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Yigit Yargic

In recent work by the authors, a connection between Feynman's path integral and Fourier integral operator $\zeta$-functions has been established as a means of regularizing the vacuum expectation values in quantum field theories. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen

The symmetry properties of a proposal to go beyond relativistic quantum field theory based on a modification of the commutation relations of fields are identified. Poincar\'e invariance in an auxiliary spacetime is found in the Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortes , J. Indurain , D. Mazon

We propose a formulation of an absorbing boundary for a quantum particle. The formulation is based on a Feynman-type integral over trajectories that are confined to the non-absorbing region. Trajectories that reach the absorbing wall are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Marchewka , Z. Schuss

The restricted Feynman path integrals (RFPIs) have been proposed to study continuous quantum measurements in physics. The RFPIs are heuristically determined in terms of the usual probability amplitude multiplied by weight for each path,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Wataru Ichinose

In the first part of the paper we provide a survey of recent results concerning the problem of pointwise convergence of integral kernels in Feynman path integral, obtained by means of time-frequency analysis techniques. We then focus on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Hans G. Feichtinger , Fabio Nicola , S. Ivan Trapasso

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

The path integral formulation of constrained systems leads to obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations in many variables. If these equations are integrable then one can constuct a valid and a canonical phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sami I. Muslih

We give a mathematical definition of some path integrals, emphasizing those relevant to the quantization of symplectic manifolds (and more generally, Poisson manifolds) $\unicode{x2013}$ in particular, the coherent state path integral. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Joshua Lackman

Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of work functional along individual Feynman path, we invent a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-30 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

The worldline formalism shares with string theory the property that it allows one to write down master integrals that effectively combine the contributions of many Feynman diagrams. While at the one-loop level these diagrams differ only by…

The quantization of systems with first- and second-class constraints within the coherent-state path-integral approach is extended to quantum systems with fermionic degrees of freedom. As in the bosonic case the importance of path-integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Georg Junker , John R. Klauder

In this paper we show how Feynman diagrams, which are used as a tool to implement perturbation theory in quantum field theory, can be very useful also in classical mechanics, provided we introduce also at the classical level concepts like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Penco , D. Mauro

Particles in a curved space are classically described by a nonlinear sigma model action that can be quantized through path integrals. The latter require a precise regularization to deal with the derivative interactions arising from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini , Laura Iacconi