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A computational technique borrowed from the physical sciences is introduced to obtain accurate closed-form approximations for the transition probability of arbitrary diffusion processes. Within the path integral framework the same technique…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-10 Luca Capriotti

Recently quantum walks have been considered as a possible fundamental description of the dynamics of relativistic quantum fields. Within this scenario we derive the analytical solution of the Weyl walk in 2+1 dimensions. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 G. M. D'Ariano , N. Mosco , P. Perinotti , A. Tosini

A form of the constraints, specifying a $D$-dimensional manifold embedded in $D+1$ dimensional Euclidean space, is discussed in the path integral formula given by a time discretization. Although the mid-point prescription is privileged in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Taro KASHIWA

We solve time-sliced path integrals of one-dimensional Coulomb system in an exact manner. In formulating path integrals, we make use of the Duru-Kleinert transformation with Fujikawa's gauge theoretical technique. Feynman kernels in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Seiji Sakoda

We present a method of constructing discrete integrable systems with crystallographic reflection group (Weyl) symmetries, thus clarifying the relationship between different discrete integrable systems in terms of their symmetry groups.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-05-05 Nalini Joshi , Nobutaka Nakazono , Yang Shi

Using the generalized coherent states we argue that the path integral formulae for $SU(2)$ and $SU(1,1)$ (in the discrete series) are WKB exact,if the starting point is expressed as the trace of $e^{-iT\hat H}$ with $\hat H$ being given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 K. Funahashi , T. Kashiwa , S. Sakoda , K. Fujii

We present a new formulation for the emergence of classical dynamics in a quantum world by considering a path integral approach that also incorporates continuous measurements. Our program is conceptually different from the decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Harsh Arora , Bishal Kumar Das , Baladitya Suri , Vaibhav Madhok

The aim of this paper is to present an elementary computable theory of probability, random variables and stochastic processes. The probability theory is baed on existing approaches using valuations and lower integrals. Various approaches to…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Pieter Collins

Feynman path integrals formalism for non-relativistic quantum mechanics is revisited. A comparison is made with the cases of light progagation (Huygens principle) and Brownian motion. The difficulties for a physical model behind Feynman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Emilio Santos

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 introduce a novel formulation for geometry on discrete points. It is based on a universal differential calculus, which gives a geometric description of a discrete set by the algebra of functions. We expand this mathematical framework so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Yuuya Takayama

We introduce and analyze a new quantity, the path integral ideal, governing the flow of generic discrete theories to the continuum limit and greatly increasing their convergence. The said flow is classified according to the degree of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-08 Aleksandar Bogojevic , Antun Balaz , Aleksandar Belic

The density operator of a quantum state can be represented as a complex joint probability of any two observables whose eigenstates have non-zero mutual overlap. Transformations to a new basis set are then expressed in terms of complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Holger F. Hofmann

We discuss measures on spaces of unparametrized paths related to the Wiener measure. These measures arise naturally in the study of one-dimensional gravity coupled to scalar fields. Two kinds of discrete approximations are defined, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Durhuus , T. Jonsson

We derive a stochastic path integral representation of counting statistics in semi-classical systems. The formalism is introduced on the simple case of a single chaotic cavity with two quantum point contacts, and then further generalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pilgram , A. N. Jordan , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Buttiker

Two formulations of quantum mechanics, inequivalent in the presence of closed timelike curves, are studied in the context of a soluable system. It illustrates how quantum field nonlinearities lead to a breakdown of unitarity, causality, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. David Politzer

The ability to represent complex high dimensional probability distributions in a compact form is one of the key insights in the field of graphical models. Factored representations are ubiquitous in machine learning and lead to major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Yexiang Xue , Stefano Ermon , Ronan Le Bras , Carla P. Gomes , Bart Selman

The path integral formulation in quantum mechanics corresponds to the first quantization since it is just to rewrite the quantum mechanical amplitude into many dimensional integrations over discretized coordinates $x_n$. However, the path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-15 Takehisa Fujita

We analyze final-time dependent discrete-time quantum walks in one dimension. We compute asymptotics of the return probability of the quantum walk by a path counting approach. Moreover, we discuss a relation between the quantum walk and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Takuya Machida , Etsuo Segawa

We perform a thorough analysis of the relationship between discrete and series representation path integral methods, which are the main numerical techniques used in connection with the Feynman-Kac formula. First, a new interpretation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristian Predescu , J. D. Doll