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We shall define the oscillatory integrals by action integrals, Van Vleck determinant and Dewitt curvature. Our method employs action integrals along the shortest paths. We have the strong but not uniform convergence of time slicing Feynman…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Yoshihisa Miyanishi

We introduce a space-time finite element method for the linear time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet conditions in a bounded Lipschitz domain. The proposed discretization scheme is based on a space-time variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Marco Zank

It is shown how the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation may be simply derived from the dynamical postulate of Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics.…

General Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 J. H. Field

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones

New physical insight into the correspondence between path integral concepts and the Schr\"odinger formulation is gained by the analysis of the effective classical potential, that is defined within the Feynman path integral formulation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rafael Ramírez , Telesforo López-Ciudad

In the present paper we consider the semiclassical magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, which describes the dynamics of charged particles under the influence of a electro-magnetic field. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Malik Scheifinger , Kurt Busch , Marlis Hochbruck , Caroline Lasser

A global solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians is derived by integrating the non-linear differential equation associated with the time-dependent wave operator. A fast iterative solution method is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Arnaud Leclerc , Georges Jolicard

The aim of the presented research is to give a rigorous mathematical approach to Feynman path integrals based on strong (pathwise) approximations based on simple random walks.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Tamás Szabados

In this paper we use a similarity transformation connecting some families of Nonlinear Schrodinger equations with time-varying coefficients with the autonomous cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation. This transformation allows one to apply…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Pedro J. Torres , Vladimir V. Konotop

Using the essence of Feynman's path integral and the space-time geodesics, an infinity of differentiable paths that follow the geometry of a continuous geodesic are constructed, and a wave function is associated to each path as a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Faycal Ben Adda

We develop time integration methods in low-rank representation that can adaptively adjust approximation ranks to achieve a prescribed accuracy, while ensuring that these ranks remain proportional to the corresponding best approximation…

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We give time-slicing path integral formulas for solutions to the heat equation corresponding to a self-adjoint Laplace type operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. More specifically,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Matthias Ludewig

We study path integrals in the Trotter-type form for the Schr\"odinger equation, where the Hamiltonian is the Weyl quantization of a real-valued quadratic form perturbed by a potential $V$ in a class encompassing that - considered by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Fabio Nicola , S. Ivan Trapasso

This paper reviews and generalizes Feynman's path integration methods which use time slicing with straight line segments and Fourier sine series. The generalizations are done from variational calculus considerations and in one dimension for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 John W. Russell

We present an alternative pathway in the application of the variation improvement of ordinary perturbation theory exposed in [1] which can preserve the internal symmetries of a model by means of a time compactification.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Bellet , P. Garcia , A. Neveu

In this paper we propose fast solution methods for the Cauchy problem for the multidimensional Schr\"odinger equation. Our approach is based on the approximation of the data by the basis functions introduced in the theory of approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Flavia Lanzara , Vladimir Maz'ya , Gunther Schmidt

Adapting ideas of Daubechies and Klauder [J. Math. Phys. {\bf 26} (1985) 2239] we derive a rigorous continuum path-integral formula for the semigroup generated by a spin Hamiltonian. More precisely, we use spin-coherent vectors parametrized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bernhard Bodmann , Hajo Leschke , Simone Warzel

We propose an approximate solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using the method of stationary states combined with a variational matrix method for finding the energies and eigenstates. We illustrate the effectiveness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Francisco M. Fernandez , Hugh Jones

Let X be a Riemannian symmetric space of the noncompact type. We prove that the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation on X with square integrable initial condition f is identically zero at all times t whenever f and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Angela Pasquale , Maddala Sundari

We approximate the solution for the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) in two steps. We first use a pseudo-spectral collocation method that uses samples of functions on rank-1 or rank-r lattice points with unitary Fourier…

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