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Quantum field theory reconciles quantum mechanics and special relativity, and plays a central role in many areas of physics. We develop a quantum algorithm to compute relativistic scattering probabilities in a massive quantum field theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stephen P. Jordan , Keith S. M. Lee , John Preskill

The probabilistic satisfiability of a logical expression is a fundamental concept known as the partition function in statistical physics and field theory, an evaluation of a related graph's Tutte polynomial in mathematics, and the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Stephen Eubank , Madhurima Nath , Yihui Ren , Abhijin Adiga

In strongly coupled field theories, perturbation theory cannot be employed to study the low-energy spectrum. Thus, non-perturbative techniques are required. We employ the variational method, a rigorous, non-perturbative approach which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-27 M. Rovira , A. Parreño , R. J. Perry

Polynomial factorization and root finding are among the most standard themes of computational mathematics. Yet still, little has been done for polynomials over quaternion algebras, with the single exception of Hamiltonian quaternions for…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Przemysław Koprowski

The BV formalism is a well-established method for analyzing symmetries and quantization of field theories. In this paper we use the BV formalism to derive partition functions of gauge invariant operators up to equations of motions and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-25 Pietro Antonio Grassi , Ondrej Hulik

The exactly solvable four-vertex model with the fixed boundary conditions in the presence of inhomogeneous linearly growing external field is considered. The partition function of the model is calculated and represented in the determinantal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-23 Nikolay Bogoliubov , Cyril Malyshev

The high temperature equilibrium partition function of a massless real scalar field nonminimally coupled to the scalar curvature is computed at second order in the derivative expansion on a generic stationary background. Using covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Manuel Valle , Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo

We consider three different approaches to analyze the quantum mechanical problems in multi-well potentials: i) the standard matrix diagonalization technique in the basis sets of harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions or plain waves; ii) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 V. P. Berezovoj , Yu. L. Bolotin , V. A. Cherkaskiy , M. I. Konchantnyi

In this work an approximate analytic expression for the quantum partition function of the quartic oscillator described by the potential $V(x) = \frac{1}{2} \omega^2 x^2 + g x^4$ is presented. Using a path integral formalism, the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Michel Caffarel

For the calculation of the partition function $\mathcal{Z}$ of small, isolated and interacting many body systems an improvement with respect to previous formulations is presented. By including anharmonicities and employing a variational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Rummel , Helmut Hofmann

In this paper we briefly review the main idea of the localization technique and its extension suitable in supersymmetric gauge field theory. We analyze the partition function of the vector multiplets with supercharges and its blocks on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-25 A. A. Bytsenko , M. Chaichian , A. E. Gonçalves

The Moyal quantization is described as a discretization of the classical phase space by using difference analogue of vector fields. Difference analogue of Lie brackets plays the role of Heisenberg commutators.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryuji Kemmoku , Satoru Saito

Inspired by various quantum gravity approaches, we explore quantum field theory where spacetime exhibits scaling properties and dimensional reduction with changing energy scales, effectively behaving as a multifractal manifold. Working…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Alessio Maiezza , Juan Carlos Vasquez

In classical statistical mechanics, the partition function is defined in phase space. We extend this concept to quantum statistical mechanics using Bohmian trajectories. The quantum partition function in phase space captures the ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Bingyu Cui

The completeness of some classical statistical mechanical (SM) models is a recent result that has been developed by quantum formalism for the partition functions. In this paper, we consider a 2D classical $\phi^4$ filed theory whose…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-12-12 Mohammad Hossein Zarei , Yahya Khalili

An elementary introduction is provided to the phase space quantization method of Moyal and Wigner. We generalize the method so that it applies to 2-dimensional surfaces, where it has an interesting connection with quantum holography. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 George Chapline , Alex Granik

Motivated by recent works on the connection between 2D quantum gravity and timelike Liouville theory, we revisit the latter and clarify some aspects of the computation of its partition function: We present a detailed computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Gaston Giribet , Matias Leoni

We present a systematic semiclassical procedure to compute the partition function for scalar field theories at finite temperature. The central objects in our scheme are the solutions of the classical equations of motion in imaginary time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bessa , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga , F. Gelis

We present new properties for the Fractional Poisson process and the Fractional Poisson field on the plane. A martingale characterization for Fractional Poisson processes is given. We extend this result to Fractional Poisson fields,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Giacomo Aletti , Nikolai Leonenko , Ely Merzbach

A combined method for analyzing quantum dynamical equations which uses the Bohmian mechanics and the quantum phase space representation is proposed. It is based on a presentation of the wave function in phase space in a polar form. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmytro Babyuk