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By carefully analyzing the relations between operator methods and the discretized and continuum path integral formulations of quantum-mechanical systems, we have found the correct Feynman rules for one-dimensional path integrals in curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jan de Boer , Bas Peeters , Kostas Skenderis , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Efficiency of quantum transport through aggregates with multiple end-points or traps proves to be an emergent and a highly non-equilibrium phenomenon. We present a numerically exact approach for computing the emergent time scale and amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Devansh Sharma , Amartya Bose

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar coefficient of a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form posed on a bounded domain from internal data. This theory finds applications in multi-wave imaging, greedy methods to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Faouzi Triki , Tao Yin

Numerical methods for the optimal transport problem is an active area of research. Recent work of Kitagawa and Abedin shows that the solution of a time-dependent equation converges exponentially fast as time goes to infinity to the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Abigail Brauer , Megan Krawick , Manuel Santana

We use dimensional regularization to evaluate quantum mechanical path integrals in arbitrary curved spaces on an infinite time interval. We perform 3-loop calculations in Riemann normal coordinates, and 2-loop calculations in general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bastianelli , O. Corradini , P. van Nieuwenhuizen

We present and study a Particle method for the stationary solutions of a class of transport equations. This method is inspired by non-stationary Particle methods, the time variable being replaced by one spatial variable. Particles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Rafael Bailo , Julie Binard , Pierre Degond , Pascal Noble

Inspired by the usefulness of local scaling of time in the path integral formalism, we introduce a new kind of hamiltonian path integral in this paper. A special case of this new type of path integral has been earlier found useful in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 A. K. Kapoor , Pankaj Sharan

A path integral formalism for non-equilibrium systems is proposed based on a manifold of quasi-equilibrium densities. A generalized Boltzmann principle is used to weight manifold paths with the exponential of minus the information…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Richard Kleeman

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

In perturbative calculations of quantum-statistical zero-temperature path integrals in curvilinear coordinates one encounters Feynman diagrams involving multiple temporal integrals over products of distributions, which are mathematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kleinert , A. Chervyakov

This article provides numerical simulation of an optimal transport path from a single source to an atomic measure of equal total mass. We first construct an initial transport path, and then modify the path as much as possible by using both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Qinglan Xia

We propose path integral description for quantum mechanical systems on compact graphs consisting of N segments of the same length. Provided the bulk Hamiltonian is segment-independent, scale-invariant boundary conditions given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-06 Satoshi Ohya

If we use the path integral approach, we can write quantum electrodynamics (QED) in a way that is manifestly relativistic. However the path integrals are confined to paths that are on mass-shell. What happens if we extend QED by computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 John Ashmead

The standard way to construct a path integral is to use a Legendre transformation to find the hamiltonian, to repeatedly insert complete sets of states into the time-evolution operator, and then to integrate over the momenta. This procedure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-27 Kevin Cahill

we will show the existence and uniqueness of a real-time, time-sliced Feynman path integral for quantum systems with vector potential. Our formulation of the path integral will be derived on the $L^2$ transition probability amplitude via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Loo

We propose a path integral formulation of noncommutative generalizations of spacetime manifold in even dimensions, characterized by a length scale $\lambda_P$. The commutative case is obtained in the limit $\lambda_P=0$.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Gianpiero Mangano

We develop a complete path-integral formulation of relativistic quantum fields in local thermal equilibrium, which brings about the emergence of thermally induced curved spacetime. The resulting action is shown to have full diffeomorphism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-07 Masaru Hongo

We consider quantum trajectories of composite systems as generated by the stochastic unraveling of the respective Lindblad-master-equation. Their classical limit is taken to correspond to local jumps between orthogonal states. Based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Granzow , G. Mahler

We apply the Generalised Thimble approach to the computation of exact path integrals and correlators in real-time quantum field theory. We first investigate the details of the numerical implementation and ways of optimizing the algorithm.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Simon Woodward , Paul M. Saffin , Zong-Gang Mou , Anders Tranberg

We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi-martingale optimal transport problem based on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by [17],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Grégoire Loeper