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Although the Hamiltonian formalism is so far favored for quantum computation of lattice gauge theory, the path integral formalism would never be useless. The advantages of the path integral formalism are the knowledge and experience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Arata Yamamoto

We examine the first-order Einstein-Cartan (EC) action in 2+1 dimensions, including a cosmological term and its supersymmetric extension. In this setting the spin connection can be expressed as an axial vector, yielding an action that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 D. G. C. McKeon , F. T. Brandt , J. Frenkel , S. Martins-Filho

Using a path integral approach, we derive an analytical solution of a nonlinear and singular Langevin equation, which has been introduced previously by P.-G. de Gennes as a simple phenomenological model for the stick-slip motion of a solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Baule , E. G. D. Cohen , H. Touchette

Using a rough path formulation, we investigate existence, uniqueness and regularity for the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with Stratonovich noise on the one dimensional torus. As a main result we show the continuity of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Emanuela Gussetti , Antoine Hocquet

This manuscript focus on an extensive survey with new techniques on the problem of solving the Boltzmann flow by bringing a unified approach to the Cauchy problem to homogeneous kinetic equations with Boltzmann-like collision operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba

We derive a semi-analytical form for the Wigner transform for the canonical density operator of a discrete system coupled to a harmonic bath based on the path integral expansion of the Boltzmann factor. The introduction of this simple and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrés Montoya-Castillo , David R. Reichman

In this paper, a complete covariant quantization of generalized electrodynamics is shown through the path integral approach. To this goal, we first studied the hamiltonian structure of system following Dirac's methodology and, then, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Rodrigo Bufalo , Bruto Max Pimentel , German Enrique Ramos Zambrano

Time derivatives of scalar fields occur quadratically in textbook actions. A simple Legendre transformation turns the lagrangian into a hamiltonian that is quadratic in the momenta. The path integral over the momenta is gaussian. Mean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 David Amdahl , Kevin Cahill

We found that the two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for 3 electrons in an homogeneous magnetic field (perpendicular to the plane) and a parabolic scalar confinement potential (frequency $\omega_0$) has exact analytical solutions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Taut

We discuss path integrals for quantum mechanics with a potential which is a perturbation of the upside-down oscillator. We express the path integral (in the real time) by the Wiener measure. We obtain the Feynman integral for perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-23 Z. Haba

We demonstrate that the emergence of a curved spacetime ``effective Lorentzian geometry'' is a common and generic result of linearizing a field theory around some non-trivial background. This investigation is motivated by considering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

We consider Feynman's path integral approach to quantum mechanics with a noncommutativity in position and momentum sectors of the phase space. We show that a quantum-mechanical system with this kind of noncommutativity is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

Three magnetic relativistic Schr\"odinger operators are considered, corresponding to the classical relativistic Hamiltonian symbol with both magnetic vector and electric scalar potentials. Path integral representations for the solutions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Takashi Ichinose

It is argued that the massive non-Abelian gauge field theory without involving Higgs bosons may be well established on the basis of gauge-invariance principle because the dynamics of the field is gauge-invariant in the physical space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Chen Su

We propose a method to construct quantum theory of matter fields in a topology changing universe. Analytic continuation of the semiclassical gravity of a Lorentzian geometry leads to a non-unitary Schr\"{o}dinger equation in a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sang Pyo Kim

According to loop quantum gravity, matter fields must be quantized in a background independent manner. For scalar fields, such a background independent quantization is called polymer quantization and is inequivalent to the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Nirmalya Kajuri

The Schwinger proper-time method is an effective calculation method, explicitly gauge invariant and nonperturbative. We make use of this method to investigate the radiatively induced Lorentz and CPT-violating effects in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Chaichian , W. F. Chen , R. Gonzalez Felipe

On the example of the quantized spinor field, interacting with arbitrary external electromagnetic field, the commutation function is studied. It is shown that a proper time representation is available in any dimensions. Using it, all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

A parity-conserving and Lorentz-invariant effective field theory of self-interacting massive vector fields is considered. For the interaction terms with dimensionless coupling constants the canonical quantization is performed. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Djukanovic , J. Gegelia , S. Scherer

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we draw a connection between localized quantum field theories and more commonly used models of local probes in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI). By integrating over and then tracing out the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Bruno de S. L. Torres