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Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics defines the wavefunction associated with a particle as a sum of phase-factors, which are periodic functions of classical action. In the present article, this periodicity is shown to impart the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 S. R. Vatsya

Experiments violating Bell's inequality appear to indicate deterministic models do not correspond to a realistic theory of quantum mechanics. The theory of pilot waves seemingly overcomes this hurdle via nonlocality and statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Aminur Rahman

We here put forward a new path-integral over Hilbert space and show that it reproduces quantum mechanics exactly. This approach works by optimizing the generating functional under a variation of the final state; it is hence an example of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Sandro Donadi , Sabine Hossenfelder

We {\em derive} the exact configuration space path integral, together with the way how to evaluate it, from the Hamiltonian approach for any quantum mechanical system in flat spacetime whose Hamiltonian has at most two momentum operators.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Skenderis , P. van Nieuwenhuizen

General aspects of the quantization of field theories non-local in time are discussed. The path integral on the basis of Schwinger's action principle and the Bjorken-Johnson-Low prescription, which helps to recover the canonical structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Fujikawa

It is straightforward to give a sum-over-paths expression for the transition amplitudes of a quantum circuit as long as the gates in the circuit are balanced, where to be balanced is to have all nonzero transition amplitudes of equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Mark D. Penney , Dax Enshan Koh , Robert W. Spekkens

We derive a path integral expression for the transition amplitude in 1+1-dimensional QCD starting from canonically quantized QCD. Gauge fixing after quantization leads to a formulation in terms of gauge invariant but curvilinear variables.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Jahn , T. Kraus , M. Seeger

Biconformal spaces contain the essential elements of quantum mechanics, making the independent imposition of quantization unnecessary. Based on three postulates characterizing motion and measurement in biconformal geometry, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Lara B. Anderson , James T. Wheeler

We consider a topological quantum mechanics described by a phase space path integral and study the 1-dimensional analog for the path integral representation of the Kontsevich formula. We see that the naive bosonic integral possesses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Mykola Dedushenko

Recently a path integral formalism has been proposed by the author which gives the time evolution of moments of slow variables in a Hamiltonian statistical system. This closure relies on evaluating the informational discrepancy of a time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Richard Kleeman

We provide a new paradigm for quantum simulation that is based on path integration that allows quantum speedups to be observed for problems that are more naturally expressed using the path integral formalism rather than the conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Serene Shum , Nathan Wiebe

Path integral method in quantum mechanics provides a new thinking for barrier option pricing. For proportional step options, the option price changing process is similar to the one dimensional trapezoid potential barrier scattering problem…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-13 Qi Chen , Chao Guo

I assume a universe whereby the speed of light and the planck constant are not constants but instead parameters that vary locally in time-and space. When describing motion, I am able to derive a modified path integral description at the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Roee Amit

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

This manuscript gathers and subsumes a long series of works on using QW to simulate transport phenomena. Quantum Walks (QWs) consist of single and isolated quantum systems, evolving in discrete or continuous time steps according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Giuseppe Di Molfetta

The very early universe is understood in terms of quantum field theories on curved spacetime, where the classical background spacetime is typically an FLRW cosmology and the quantum fields which propagate on it include gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Alice Di Tucci

A path-integral approach for the computation of quantum-mechanical propagators and energy Green's functions is presented. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to singular interactions, with particular emphasis on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schroedinger equation or complex wavefunctions. Unlike the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Antonio Sciarretta

The possibility of extending the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics (QM) to a space-time symmetric form has recently attracted wide interest. In this context, a recent proposal has shown that a spacetime symmetric many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 N. L. Diaz , J. M. Matera , R. Rossignoli

Path integrals are usually formulated in discrete Euclidean time using the Trotter formula. We propose a new method to study discrete quantum systems, in which we work directly in the Euclidean time continuum. The method is of general…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 B. B. Beard , U. -J. Wiese