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In this paper a new method for computation of higher order corrections to the saddle point approximation of the Feynman path integral is discussed. The saddle point approximation leads to local Schr\"odinger problems around classical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Gabor Vattay

In this paper we demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to solve numerically the Cauchy problem for the linearisation of the general conformal field equations near spacelike infinity, which is only well-defined in Friedrich's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-05 Florian Beyer , Georgios Doulis , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

This paper deals with Schr\"{o}dinger equations with potentials which are time-dependent non-smooth and at most quadratic growth. In the case where potentials are smooth with respect to spatial variables, fundamental solutions have explicit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Shun Takizawa

Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

For quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, a critical role is played by their foliation into spacelike time-slices at each value $t$ of a coordinate time, with corresponding metric in ADM form. We provide a general construction for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 Shahn Majid

We explore the applicability of splitting methods involving complex coefficients to solve numerically the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. We prove that a particular class of integrators are conjugate to unitary methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Escorihuela-Tomàs

Feynman's path integral formulation arose from his attempt to incorporate the Lagrangian framework into quantum mechanics, offering what he regarded as a more fundamental perspective than the Hamiltonian approach, particularly in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Bernat Frangi , Héctor López

We prove the existence of smooth solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on $\mathbf{R}^3$ that feature arbitrarily complex quantum vortex reconnections. We can track the evolution of the vortices during the whole process. This permits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We investigate anisotropic (piecewise) polynomial approximation of functions in Lebesgue spaces as well as anisotropic Besov spaces. For this purpose we study temporal and spacial moduli of smoothness and their properties. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Pedro Morin , Cornelia Schneider , Nick Schneider

In this paper we consider the nonlinear one-dimensional time-dependent Schroedinger equation with a periodic potential and a local perturbation. In the limit of large periodic potential the time behavior of the wavefunction can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Andrea Sacchetti

We build an efficient and unitary (hence stable) method for the solution of the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation subject with explicitly time-dependent potentials. The method is based on a combination of the Zassenhaus decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Philipp Bader , Arieh Iserles , Karolina Kropielnicka , Pranav Singh

We consider the pointwise convergence problem for the solution of Schr\"odinger-type equations along directions determined by a given compact subset of the real line. This problem contains Carleson's problem as the most simple case and was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Shobu Shiraki

We investigate a generalization of cubic splines to Riemannian manifolds. Spline curves are defined as minimizers of the spline energy - a combination of the Riemannian path energy and the time integral of the squared covariant derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Behrend Heeren , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We derive optimal order a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete approximations of linear Schr\"odinger-type equations, in the $L^\infty(L^2)-$norm. For the discretization in time we use the Crank-Nicolson method, while for the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Theodoros Katsaounis , Irene Kyza

We show that the emergence of time evolution in an otherwise timeless nonrelativistic closed quantum system -- viewed as a poor man's model of generally covariant quantum theory -- can be understood from the perspective of the path integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Juan Manuel Diaz , Alejandro Perez

This paper gives a rigorous interpretation of a Feynman path integral on a Riemannian manifold M with non-positive sectional curvature. A $L^2$ Riemannian metric $G_P$ is given on the space of piecewise geodesic paths $H_P(M)$ adapted to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Thomas Laetsch

In this work a Feynman-Kac path integral method based on Levy measure has been proposed for solving the Cauchy problems associated with the space-time fractional Schroedinger equations arising in interacting systems in fractional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Sumita Datta , Radhika Prosad Datta

We find exact solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a family of quasi-exactly solvable time-dependent potentials by means of non-unitary gauge transformations.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Federico Finkel , Niky Kamran

In this paper we study the long time behavior of a discrete approximation in time and space of the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the real line. More precisely, we consider a symplectic time splitting integrator applied to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Dario Bambusi , Erwan Faou , Benoit Grebert

A method of solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is presented, in which a finite region of space is treated explicitly, with the boundary conditions for matching the wave-functions on to the rest of the system replaced by an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Inglesfield