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We define a (semi-classical) path integral for gravity with Neumann boundary conditions in $D$ dimensions, and show how to relate this new partition function to the usual picture of Euclidean quantum gravity. We also write down the action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar , Avinash Raju

The computation of anomalies in quantum field theory may be carried out by evaluating path integral Jacobians, as first shown by Fujikawa. The evaluation of these Jacobians can be cast in the form of a quantum mechanical problem, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Fiorenzo Bastianelli

A new path integral approach of quantum gravity based on relational variables and quantum test objects is presented. We take as a basic variables the squared invariant distance. This invariant quantity is technically simpler to work with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Ding Jia

A method is presented which restricts the space of paths entering the path integral of quantum mechanics to subspaces of $C^\alpha$, by only allowing paths which possess at least $\alpha$ derivatives. The method introduces two external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Benjamin Koch , Ignacio Reyes

Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of work functional along individual Feynman path, we invent a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-30 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

The topology of complex classical paths is investigated to discuss quantum tunnelling splittings in one-dimensional systems. Here the Hamiltonian is assumed to be given as polynomial functions, so the fundamental group for the Riemann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Hiromitsu Harada , Amaury Mouchet , Akira Shudo

In this work, we developed an efficient quantum algorithm for the simulation of non-Markovian quantum dynamics, based on the Feynman path integral formulation. The algorithm scales polynomially with the number of native gates and the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Avin Seneviratne , Peter L. Walters , Fei Wang

Closed systems in Newtonian mechanics obey the principle of Galilean relativity. However, the usual Lagrangian for Newtonian mechanics, formed from the difference of kinetic and potential energies, is not invariant under the full group of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Charles Torre

This course on Feynman integrals starts from the basics, requiring only knowledge from special relativity and undergraduate mathematics. Topics from quantum field theory and advanced mathematics are introduced as they are needed. The course…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Stefan Weinzierl

The worldline path integral approach to the Bern-Kosower formalism is reviewed, which offers an alternative to Feynman diagram calculations in quantum field theory. Recent progress in constructing a multiloop generalization of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

The given article example of physical analogies to be entered information space-time. The opportunity of Poincare group use is shown for transition from one frame in another, for this purpose is entered invariant velocity of transition of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 O. I. Shro

A quantum measurement model based upon restricted path-integrals allows us to study measurements of generalized position in various one-dimensional systems of phenomenological interest. After a general overview of the method we discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Tommaso Calarco , Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla , Lorenza Viola

The Feynman checkerboard problem is an interesting path integral approach to the Dirac equation in `1+1' dimensions. I compare two approaches reported in the literature and show how they may be reconciled. Some physical insights may be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Keith A. Earle

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

We propose a path integral formulation for scale invariant quantum field theories. We do it by modifying the functional integration measure in such a way that the partition function is always exactly scale invariant, at the cost of having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-10 Mario Herrero-Valea

We consider an ``integral'' extension of the classical notion of affine connection providing a correspondence between paths in the manifold and diffeomorphisms of the manifold. These path-diffeomorphisms are a generalization of parallel…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Karasev

The physical phase space in gauge systems is studied. Effects caused by a non-Euclidean geometry of the physical phase space in quantum gauge models are described in the operator and path integral formalisms. The projection on the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei V. Shabanov

An approach to evaluation of the smooth Feynman path integrals is developed for the study of quantum fluctuations of particles and fields in Euclidean time-space. The paths are described by sum of Gauss functions and are weighted with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Takayasu Sekihara

we will provide a rigorous computation for the harmonic oscillator Feynman path integral. The computation will be done without having prior knowledge of the classical path. We will see that properties of classical physics falls out…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

This article gives a short step-by-step introduction to the representation of parametric Feynman integrals in scalar perturbative quantum field theory as periods of motives. The application of motivic Galois theory to the algebro-geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Claudia Rella