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Based on some results on reparmetrisation of time in Hamiltonian path integral formalism, a pseudo time formulation of operator formalism of quantum mechanics is presented. Relation of reparametrisation of time in quantum with super…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-21 A. K. Kapoor

In the past few decades, researchers have created a veritable zoo of quantum algorithms by drawing inspiration from classical computing, information theory, and even from physical phenomena. Here we present quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 N. L. Diaz , Paolo Braccia , Martin Larocca , J. M. Matera , R. Rossignoli , M. Cerezo

The question of how long a particle takes to pass through a potential barrier is still a controversial topic in quantum mechanics. Arguably, the main theoretical problem in obtaining estimates for measurable times is the fact that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Ricardo Ximenes , Fernando Parisio , Eduardo O. Dias

We introduce configuration space path integrals for quantum fields interacting with classical fields. We show that this can be done consistently by proving that the dynamics are completely positive directly, without resorting to master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

By adapting Feynman's sum over paths method to a quantum mechanical system whose phase space is a torus, a new proof of the Landsberg-Schaar identity for quadratic Gauss sums is given. In contrast to existing non-elementary proofs, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Vernon Armitage , Alice Rogers

Path integrals for particles in curved spaces can be used to compute trace anomalies in quantum field theories, and more generally to study properties of quantum fields coupled to gravity in first quantization. While their construction in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini , Edoardo Vassura

An extension of the classical action principle obtained in the framework of the gauge transformations, is used to describe the motion of a particle. This extension assigns many, but not all, paths to a particle. Properties of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Vatsya

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

Although the path-integral formalism is known to be equivalent to conventional quantum mechanics, it is not generally obvious how to implement path-based calculations for multi-qubit entangled states. Whether one takes the formal view of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Narayani Tyagi , Ken Wharton

On the basis of the canonical quantization procedure of a system defined on a cubic lattice, we propose a new method, in which resolutions of unity expressed in terms of eigenvectors are naturally provided, to find eigenvectors of field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Seiji Sakoda

Time continues to be an intriguing physical property in the modern era. On the one hand, we have the Classical and Relativistic notion of time, where space and time have the same hierarchy, which is essential in describing events in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Arlans JS de Lara , Marcus W Beims

An adapted representation of quantum mechanics sheds new light on the relationship between quantum states and classical states. In this approach the space of quantum states splits into a product of the state space of classical mechanics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Christoph Nölle

The formulation of noncommutative quantum mechanics as a quantum system represented in the space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators is used to systematically derive, using the standard time slicing procedure, the path integral action for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-11 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Frederik G Scholtz

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

The Feynman path integral plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics, offering significant insights into the interaction between classical action and propagators, and linking quantum electrodynamics (QED) with Feynman diagrams. However, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 W. Wen

A natural mapping of paths in a curved space onto the paths in the corresponding (tangent) flat space may be used to reduce the curved-space-time path integral to the flat-space-time path integral. The dynamics of the particle in a curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael B. Mensky

We show how quantum mechanics can be understood as a space-time theory provided that its spatial continuum is modelled by a variable real number (qrumber) continuum. Such a continuum can be constructed using only standard Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Corbett , T. Durt

Extension of Feynman's path integral to quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates is considered. The corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is formulated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

The paper develops the idea that the dynamics of both classical and quantum processes is time reversible. It is shown how this classical analogy allows one to define the measure for the path integral in quantum mechanics.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. D. Mandzhavidze

Feynman's sum-over-histories formulation of quantum mechanics is reviewed as an independent statement of quantum theory in spacetime form. It is different from the usual Schr\"odinger-Heisenberg formulation that utilizes states on spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-24 James B. Hartle