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A formalism for the numerical integration of one- and two-loop integrals is presented. It is based on subtraction terms which remove the soft, collinear and some of the ultraviolet divergences from the integrand. The numerical integral is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 A. Freitas

The path integral formalism gives a very illustrative and intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics but due to its difficult sum over phases one usually prefers Schr\"odinger's approach. We will show that it is possible to calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dullweber , E. R. Hilf , E. Mendel

Applicability of Feynman path integral approach to numerical simulations of quantum dynamics in real time domain is examined. Coherent quantum dynamics is demonstrated with one dimensional test cases (quantum dot models) and performance of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

A generalized Feynman-Kac formula based on the Wiener measure is presented. Within the setting of a quantum particle in an electromagnetic field it yields the standard Feynman-Kac formula for the corresponding Schr\"odinger semigroup. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Bodmann , H. Leschke , S. Warzel

We present an interesting study of Feynman integral reduction that does not employ integration-by-parts identities. Our approach proceeds by studying the equivalence relations of integral contours in the Feynman parameterization. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Ziwen Wang , Li Lin Yang

The Feynman-Kac equations are a type of partial differential equations describing the distribution of functionals of diffusive motion. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, being a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen , Eli Barkai

We show that the computational effort for the numerical solution of fermionic quantum systems, occurring e.g., in quantum chemistry, solid state physics, field theory in principle grows with less than the square of the particle number for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann , Eberhard R. Hilf

The density of states for a particle moving in a random potential with a Gaussian correlator is calculated exactly using the functional integral technique. It is achieved by expressing the functional degrees of freedom in terms of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 O. K. Vorov , A. V. Vagov

We present the idea of intertwining of two diffusions by Feynman-Kac operators. We present some variations and implications of the method and give examples of its applications. Among others, it turns out to be a very useful tool for finding…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Maciej Wiśniewolski , Jacek Jakubowski

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

For the particles undergoing the anomalous diffusion with different waiting time distributions for different internal states, we derive the Fokker-Planck and Feymann-Kac equations, respectively, describing positions of the particles and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

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 work develops further a probabilist approach to the asymptotic behavior of growth-fragmentation semigroups via the Feynman-Kac formula, which was introduced in a joint article with A.R. Watson [4]. Here, it is first shown that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Jean Bertoin

In perturbative calculations of quantum mechanical path integrals in curvilinear coordinates, Feynman diagrams involve multiple temporal integrals over products of distributions, which are mathematically undefined. We derive simple rules…

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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

New methods for obtaining functional equations for Feynman integrals are presented. Application of these methods for finding functional equations for various one- and two- loop integrals described in detail. It is shown that with the aid of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-31 O. V. Tarasov

We develop a geometric framework in Feynman-parameter space to determine constraints on the sequential discontinuities of Feynman integrals. Our method is based on tracking the deformation of the integration contour as external kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Ruth Britto , Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir

We describe a method to numerically compute multi-loop integrals, depending on one dimensionless parameter $x$ and the dimension $d$, in the whole kinematic range of $x$. The method is based on differential equations, which, however, do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Matteo Fael , Fabian Lange , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

The hypergeometric function method naturally provides the analytic expressions of scalar integrals from concerned Feynman diagrams in some connected regions of independent kinematic variables, also presents the systems of homogeneous linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-15 Tai-Fu Feng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Jian-Bin Chen , Zhi-Hua Gu , Hai-Bin Zhang

This article is concerned with the design and analysis of discrete time Feynman-Kac particle integration models with geometric interacting jump processes. We analyze two general types of model, corresponding to whether the reference process…

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