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This paper proposes a numerical method using neural networks to solve the path integral problem in quantum mechanics for arbitrary potentials. The method is based on a radial basis function expansion of the interaction term that appears in…

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We to define a Path Integral in Lorentzian time by restricting the relevant domain of integration on $C([0,1],M)$ over a Riemannian configuration manifold $(M,g)$ and considering the dynamics of a particle evolving between to fixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Timur Obolenskiy

The structure of a polystyrene matrix filled with tightly cross-linked polystyrene nanoparticles, forming an athermal nanocomposite system, is investigated by means of a Monte Carlo sampling formalism. The polymer chains are represented as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-17 Georgios G. Vogiatzis , Evangelos Voyiatzis , Doros N. Theodorou

The path probability of stochastic motion of non dissipative or quasi-Hamiltonian systems is investigated by numerical experiment. The simulation model generates ideal one-dimensional motion of particles subject only to conservative forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Tongling Lin , Ru Wang , W. P. Bi , A. El Kaabouchi , C. Pujos , F. Calvayrac , Q. A. Wang

We derive a worldline path integral representation for the effective action of a multiplet of Dirac fermions coupled to the most general set of matrix-valued scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial vector and antisymmetric tensor background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric D'Hoker , Darius G. Gagne

We study the conformational behavior of polarizable polymer chain under an external homogeneous electric field within the Flory type self-consistent field theory. We consider the influence of electric field on the polymer coil as well as on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

The distribution of monomers along a linear polymer grafted on a hard wall is modelled by determining the probability distribution of occupied vertices of Dyck and ballot path models of adsorbing linear polymers. For example, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-08 EJ Janse van Rensburg

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations are used to calculate the momentum distribution of the homogeneous electron gas at finite temperature. This is done by calculating the off-diagonal elements of the real-space density matrix,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Militzer , E. L. Pollock , D. M. Ceperley

Path integrals are a ubiquitous tool in theoretical physics. However, their use is sometimes hindered by the lack of control on various manipulations -- such as performing a change of the integration path -- one would like to carry out in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric van Wijland

In this chapter we review the rich behavior of polymer chains embedded in a quenched random environment. We first consider the problem of a Gaussian chain free to move in a random potential with short-ranged correlations. We derive the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt , Yohannes Shiferaw

The winding angle probability distribution of a planar self-avoiding walk has been known exactly since a long time: it has a gaussian shape with a variance growing as $<\theta^2>\sim \ln L$. For the three-dimensional case of a walk winding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema , Enrico Carlon

Quantum mechanics in conical space is studied by the path integral method. It is shown that the curvature effect gives rise to an effective potential in the radial path integral. It is further shown that the radial path integral in conical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Akira Inomata , Georg Junker

We have calculated the joint probability distribution function for random reverse-cyclic matrices and shown that it is related to an N-body exactly solvable model. We refer to this well-known model potential as a screened harmonic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Shashi C. L. Srivastava , Sudhir R. Jain

The existence of an observer independent minimum length scale can lead to the modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to the generalized uncertainty principle. This in turn would be responsible for the modification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Sukanta Bhattacharyya

The statistical mechanics of a non-interacting polymer chain in the limit of a large number of monomers is considered when the total angular momentum, L, is fixed. The radius of gyration for a ring polymer in this situation is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Deutsch

We study the dynamics of flexible, semiflexible, and self-avoiding polymer chains moving under a Kramers metastable potential. Due to thermal noise, the polymers, initially placed in the metastable well, can cross the potential barrier, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-05 Jaeoh Shin , Timo Ikonen , Mahendra D. Khandkar , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Wokyung Sung

Simulating a Gaussian process requires sampling from a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution, which scales cubically with the number of sample locations. Spectral methods address this challenge by exploiting the Fourier representation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Arsalan Jawaid , Abdullah Karatas , Jörg Seewig

We give a pedagogical review of the application of field theoretic and path integral methods to calculate moments of the probability density function of stochastic differential equations perturbatively.

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-10-10 Carson C. Chow , Michael A. Buice

We study the convergence in $L^2$ of the time slicing approximation of Feynman path integrals under low regularity assumptions on the potential. Inspired by the custom in Physics and Chemistry, the approximate propagators considered here…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Fabio Nicola , S. Ivan Trapasso

We present a Gaussian ensemble of random cyclic matrices on the real field and study their spectral fluctuations. These cyclic matrices are shown to be pseudo-symmetric with respect to generalized parity. We calculate the joint probability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Sudhir R. Jain , Shashi C. L. Srivastava