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The functional Schr\"odinger equation in curved space-time is derived from the manifestly covariant precanonical Schr\"odinger equation. The Schr\"odinger wave functional is expressed as the trace of the multidimensional product integral of…

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We observe that the Schrodinger equation may be written as two real coupled Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ)-like equations, each involving a quantum potential. Developing our established programme of representing the quantum state through exact…

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Recently we proposed a particle-number-conserving theory for nuclear pairing [Jia, Phys. Rev. C 88, 044303 (2013)] through the generalized density matrix formalism. The relevant equations were solved for the case when each single-particle…

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A phase space formulation of the filtering process upon an incident quantum state is developed. This formulation can explain the results of both quantum interference and delayed-choice experiments without making use of the controversial…

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Dirac, Fock, and Podolsky [Ref. 1] devised a relativistic model in 1932 in which a fixed number of $N$ Dirac electrons interact through a second-quantized electromagnetic field. It is formulated with the help of a multi-time wave function…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Dirk-André Deckert , Lukas Nickel

Our understanding of quantum field theory rests largely on explicit and controlled calculations in perturbation theory. Because of this, much recent effort has been devoted to improve our grasp of perturbative techniques on cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Aaron Hillman , Enrico Pajer

Landau and Peierls wrote down the Hamiltonian of a simplified version of quantum electrodynamics in the particle-position representation. We present a multi-time version of their Schr\"odinger equation, which bears several advantages over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Matthias Lienert , Roderich Tumulka

Equations of motion for single particle under two proper time model and three proper time model have been proposed and analyzed. The motions of particle are derived from pure classical method but they exhibit the same properties of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 xiaodong Chen

Multi-time equations are evolution equations involving several time variables, one for each particle. Such equations have been considered for the purpose of making theories manifestly Lorentz invariant. We compare their status and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Sören Petrat , Roderich Tumulka

We have found a new class of time dependent partial waves which are solutions of time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for three dimensional harmonic oscillator. We also showed the decomposition of coherent states of harmonic oscillator…

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We study the Schr\"odinger equation in quantum field theory (QFT) in its functional formulation. In this approach quantum correlation functions can be expressed as classical expectation values over (complex) stochastic processes. We obtain…

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The many-fingered time (MFT) formulation of many-particle quantum mechanics and quantum field theory is a natural framework that overcomes the problem of "instantaneous collapse" in entangled systems that exhibit nonlocalities. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nikolic

Polymomentum canonical theories, which are manifestly covariant multi-parameter generalizations of the Hamiltonian formalism to field theory, are considered as a possible basis of quantization. We arrive at a multi-parameter hypercomplex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 I. V. Kanatchikov

States in quantum field theory (QFT) are represented by many-particle wave functions, such that a state describing n particles depends on n spacetime positions. Since a general state is a superposition of states with different numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Nikolic

As a toy model for dynamics in nonequilibrium quantum field theory we consider the abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions with fermions. In the approximate dynamical equations, inhomogeneous classical (mean) Bose fields are coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gert Aarts , Jan Smit

It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie--Bohm theory is a physical field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to interpret the wave-function as a multi-field in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Mario Hubert , Davide Romano

In quantum field theory, particle creation occurs, in general, when an intense external field, such as an electromagnetic field, breaks time translational invariance. This leads to an ambiguity in the definition of the vacuum state. In…

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We present a treatment of many-body Fermionic systems that facilitates an expression of the well-known quantities in a series expansion of the Planck's constant. The ensuing semiclassical result contains to a leading order of the response…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Pierre Gaspard , Sudhir R. Jain

In these lecture notes we give an introduction to the kinetic equation approach to pair production form the vacuum in strong, time-dependent external fields (dynamical Schwinger process). We first give a derivation of the kinetic equation…

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An exact time-dependent solution for the wave function $\psi(r,t)$ of a particle moving in the presence of an asymmetric rectangular well/barrier potential varying in one dimension is obtained by applying a novel for this problem approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Victor F. Los , Nicholas V. Los