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Many introductory courses in quantum mechanics include Feynman's time-slicing definition of the path integral, with a complete derivation of the propagator in the simplest of cases. However, attempts to generalize this, for instance to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Dana S. Fine , Stephen F. Sawin

The Feynman path integral for the generalized harmonic oscillator is reviewed, and it is shown that the path integral can be used to find a complete set of wave functions for the oscillator. Harmonic oscillators with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dae-Yup Song

The problem of a Klein-Gordon particle moving in equal vector and scalar Rosen-Morse-type potentials is solved in the framework of Feynman's path integral approach. Explicit path integration leads to a closed form for the radial Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 A Khodja , A Kadja , F Benamira , L Guechi

As an alternative but unified and more fundamental description for quantum physics, Feynman path integrals generalize the classical action principle to a probabilistic perspective, under which the physical observables' estimation translates…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-03 Shile Chen , Oleh Savchuk , Shiqi Zheng , Baoyi Chen , Horst Stoecker , Lingxiao Wang , Kai Zhou

In this article we present an analytic solution of the famous problem of diffraction and interference of electrons through one and two slits (for simplicity, only the one-dimensional case is considered). In addition to exact formulas, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Mathieu Beau

This paper presents an analytical treatment of the path integral formalism for time-dependent quantum systems within the framework of Wigner-Dunkl mechanics, emphasizing systems with varying masses and time-dependent potentials. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Following Feynman's prescription for constructing a path integral representation of the propagator of a quantum theory, a short-time approximation to the propagator for imaginary time, N=1 supersymmetric quantum mechanics on a compact,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Dana Fine , Stephen Sawin

Propagation of the Wigner function is studied on two levels of semiclassical propagation, one based on the van-Vleck propagator, the other on phase-space path integration. Leading quantum corrections to the classical Liouville propagator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Dittrich , Luis Sandoval , Carlos Viviescas

We formulate Feynman path integral on a non commutative plane using coherent states. The propagator for a free particle exhibits UV cut-off induced by the parameter of non commutativity.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Anais Smailagic , Euro Spallucci

We will derive a rigorous real time propagator for the Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanic $L^2$ transition probability amplitude and for the Non-relativistic wave function. The propagator will be explicitly given in terms of the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Loo

The proper time formalism for a particle propagator in an external electromagnetic field is combined with the path-dependent formulation of the gauge theory to simplify the quasiclassical propagator. The latter is achieved due to a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Using a recent path integral representation for the T-matrix in nonrelativistic potential scattering we investigate new variational approximations in this framework. By means of the Feynman-Jensen variational principle and the most general…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-08-25 J. Carron , R. Rosenfelder

The Feynman path integral approach to quantum mechanics is examined in the case where the configuration space is curved. It is shown how the ambiguity that is present in the choice of path integral measure may be resolved if, in addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Toms

Both Bohmian mechanics, a version of quantum mechanics with trajectories, and Feynman's path integral formalism have something to do with particle paths in space and time. The question thus arises how the two ideas relate to each other. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roderich Tumulka

Consistent dynamics which couples classical and quantum degrees of freedom exists. This dynamics is linear in the hybrid state, completely positive and trace preserving. Starting from completely positive classical-quantum master equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

Feynman's time-slicing construction approximates the path integral by a product, determined by a partition of a finite time interval, of approximate propagators. This paper formulates general conditions to impose on a short-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Dana Fine , Stephen Sawin

The mathematical similarities between non-relativistic wavefunction propagation in quantum mechanics and image propagation in scalar diffraction theory are used to develop a novel understanding of time and paths through spacetime as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sky Nelson-Isaacs

Feynman's path integral approach is to sum over all possible spatio-temporal paths to reproduce the quantum wave function and the corresponding time evolution, which has enormous potential to reveal quantum processes in classical view.…

Many quantization schemes rely on analogs of classical mechanics where the connections with classical mechanics are indirect. In this work I propose a new and direct connection between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Hegseth

In this work we develop an alternative approach for solution of Quantum Trajectories using the Path Integral method. The state-of-the-art technique in the field is to solve a set of non-linear, coupled partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Sagnik Ghosh , Swapan K. Ghosh