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These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly first-year graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard MacKenzie

Probabilistic graphical models have emerged as a powerful modeling tool for several real-world scenarios where one needs to reason under uncertainty. A graphical model's partition function is a central quantity of interest, and its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Durgesh Agrawal , Yash Pote , Kuldeep S Meel

Charret et. al. applied the properties of the Grassmann generators to develop a new method to calculate the coefficients of the high temperature expansion of the grand canonical partition function of self-interacting fermionic models in any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. M. de Souza , O. Rojas Santos , M. T. Thomaz

Path integral method in quantum mechanics provides a new thinking for barrier option pricing. For proportional step options, the option price changing process is similar to the one dimensional trapezoid potential barrier scattering problem…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-13 Qi Chen , Chao Guo

We construct the path integral formulation of the partition function for a free scalar thermal field theory using coherent states, first in the ladder operator basis and then in the field operator basis. In so doing, we provide for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Rens Roosenstein , Maximilian Attems , W. A. Horowitz

We present a solution to the sign problem in a class of particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonian lattice fermion models on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution remains valid when the particle-hole symmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-03 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Massively parallel computer architectures create new opportunities for the performance of long-timescale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here, we introduce the path-accelerated molecular dynamics (PAMD) method that takes advantage of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , Bin Zhang , Thomas F. Miller

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

Path-integral expressions for one-particle propagators in scalar and fermionic field theories are derived, for arbitrary mass. This establishes a direct connection between field theory and specific classical point-particle models. The role…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-22 J. W. van Holten

We propose a new approach to circumvent the sign problem in which the integration path is optimized to control the sign problem. We give a trial function specifying the integration path in the complex plane and tune it to optimize the cost…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-12-13 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

The path integral approach offers not only an exact expression for the non- equilibrium dynamics of dissipative quantum systems, but is also a convenient starting point for perturbative treatments. An alternative way to explore the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Joachim Ankerhold

In the present work we introduce a computational approach to the absolute rovibrational quantum partition function using the path-integral formalism of quantum mechanics in combination with the nested sampling technique. The numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Bela Szekeres , Livia B. Partay , Edit Matyus

The path optimization method, which is proposed to control the sign problem in quantum field theories with continuous degrees of freedom by machine learning, is applied to a spin model with discrete degrees of freedom. The path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-25 Kouji Kashiwa , Yusuke Namekawa , Akira Ohnishi , Hayato Takase

The conventional second-order Path Integral Monte Carlo method is plagued with the sign problem in solving many-fermion systems. This is due to the large number of anti-symmetric free fermion propagators that are needed to extract the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Siu A. Chin

We examine statistical field theories of polymeric fluids in view of performing numerical simulations. The partition function of these systems can be expressed as a functional integral over real density fields. The introduction of density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Glenn H. Fredrickson , Henri Orland

The partition function by means of the static path approximation (SPA) plus the random-phase approximation (RPA) treatment can be written as a contour integral form without solving the RPA equations for a separable interaction. This method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Kaneko , M. Hasegawa

All matter is made up of fermions -- one of the fundamental type of particles in nature. Fermions follow the Pauli exclusion principle, stating that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state. Antisymmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Lucas Hackl , Dayang Li , Nika Akopian , Matthias Christandl

In this study, the capabilities of the Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) method are investigated for three major tasks: modeling, simulation, and optimization in the context of the heat conduction problem. In the modeling phase, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Ehsan Ghaderi , Mohamad Ali Bijarchi , Siamak Kazemzadeh Hannani , Ali Nouri Boroujerdi

We study numerical methods for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), which is a system of stochastic differential equations and a popular stochastic momentum-conserving thermostat for simulating complex hydrodynamic behavior at mesoscales.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Xiaocheng Shang

Fractionation of isotopes among distinct molecules or phases is a quantum effect which is often exploited to obtain insights on reaction mechanisms, biochemical, geochemical and atmospheric phenomena. Accurate evaluation of isotope ratios…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bingqing Cheng , Michele Ceriotti