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We have developed a proper path integral formalism consistent with the deformed version of the quantum mechanics which contains a maximum observable length scale at the order of the Cosmological particle horizon, existing in cosmology.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Souvik Pramanik

I discuss how a variatonal approach can be extended to systems of identical particles (in particular fermions) within the path-integral treatment. The applicability of the many-body variational principle for path integrals is illustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 J. T. Devreese

After the recognition of the possibility to implement Majorana fermions using the building blocks of solid-state matters, the detection of this peculiar particle has been an intense focus of research. Here we experimentally demonstrate a…

Recently it has been suggested by A. M. Tsvelik that quantum S=1/2 antiferromagnet can be described by the Majorana fermions in an irreducible way and without any constraint. In contrast to this claim we shall show that this representation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Moroz

In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jia-Lin Pan , Zi-Fan Zhu , Shixuan Chen , Yu Su , Yao Wang

We analyse the linear confinement of a Majorana fermion in $\left(1+1\right)$-dimensions. We show that the Dirac equation can be solved analytically. Besides, we show that the spectrum of energy is discrete, however, the energy levels are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 R. F. Ribeiro , K. Bakke

We consider electrons in two dimensions in a strong magnetic field at half filling of the lowest Landau level using the Chern-Simons approach. Starting from a lattice Hamiltonian for the electrons, we derive a path integral (PI) formulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Weller , J. Dietel , Th. Koschny , W. Apel

The statistical mechanics of nonrelativistic fermions in a constant magnetic field is considered from the quantum field theory point of view. The fermionic determinant is computed using a general procedure that contains all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Espinosa , J. Gamboa , S. Lepe , F. Mendez

We study the partition function of N=1 supersymmetric De Rham quantum mechanics on a Riemannian manifold, with a nontrivial chemical potential $\mu$ for the fermions. General arguments suggest that when $\mu \to \infty$ we should get the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Topi Kärki , Antti J. Niemi

Motivated by recent experimental progress towards the measurement and manipulation of Majorana fermions with superconducting circuits, we propose a device interfacing Majorana fermions with circuit quantum electrodynamics. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Clemens Müller , Jérôme Bourassa , Alexandre Blais

The fermion sign problem, the biggest obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, is completely solved in this paper. Here, we find a strategy, in which the contribution from those negative-weighted paths is thoroughly cancelled or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Wang , D. Y. Sun

Quantum tomography is an important tool for the characterisation of quantum operations. In this paper, we present a framework of quantum tomography in fermionic systems. Compared with qubit systems, fermions obey the superselection rule,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Gang Zhang , Mingxia Huo , Ying Li

We have investigated the possible presence of Majorana fermions in a semiconductor quantum ring containing a few interacting electrons, and a strong spin-orbit interaction, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor. We have found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Aram Manaselyan , Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

Semiconducting nanowires in proximity to superconductors are promising experimental systems for Majorana fermions which may ultimately be used as building blocks for topological quantum computers. A serious challenge in the experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-13 Jay D. Sau , Chien Hung Lin , Hoi-Yin Hui , S. Das Sarma

The path integral approach to quantum mechanics provides a method of quantization of dynamical systems directly from the Lagrange formalism. In field theory the method presents some advantages over Hamiltonian quantization. The Lagrange…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Asorey , A. Ibort , G. Marmo

We study a rotation invariant Majorana fermion model in one dimension using diagrammatic perturbation theory and numerical diagonalization of small systems. The model is inspired by a Majorana representation of the antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Diptiman Sen , B. Sriram Shastry

We perform a systematic and exact study of Majorana fermion dynamics in the Kitaev-Heisenberg-$\Gamma$ model in a few finite-size clusters increasing in size up to twelve sites. We employ exact Jordan-Wigner transformations to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Sheikh Moonsun Pervez , Saptarshi Mandal

The path integral formulation in quantum mechanics corresponds to the first quantization since it is just to rewrite the quantum mechanical amplitude into many dimensional integrations over discretized coordinates $x_n$. However, the path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-15 Takehisa Fujita

The path-integral calculation for the free energy of a spin-1/2 Dirac-fermion gas is performed in spherical polar coordinates for a flat spacetime geometry. Its equivalence with the Cartesian-coordinate representation is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-08 Andrew Briggs , Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

For the case of reduction onto the non-zero momentum level, in the problem of the path integral quantization of a scalar particle motion on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with the given free isometric action of the compact semisimle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 S. N. Storchak