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We simplify and generalize an approach proposed by Di Vecchia and Ravndal to describe a massive Dirac particle in external vector and scalar fields. Two different path integral representations for the propagator are derived systematically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Alexandrou , R. Rosenfelder , A. W. Schreiber

Spin is a fundamental degree of freedom, whose existence was proven by Dirac for an electron by imposing the relativity to quantum mechanics, leading to the triumph to derive the Dirac equation. Spin of a photon should be linked to…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shinichi Saito

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

In the Feynman amplitude approach for coherent collisions of a jet with medium partons, the Bose-Einstein symmetry with respect to the interchange of the exchanged bosons leads to a destructive interference of the amplitudes in most regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Cheuk-Yin Wong

We present a new method for numerically computing generic multi-loop Feynman integrals. The method relies on an iterative application of Feynman's trick for combining two propagators. Each application of Feynman's trick introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Martijn Hidding , Johann Usovitsch

The proton momentum distribution, accessible by deep inelastic neutron scattering, is a very sensitive probe of the potential of mean force experienced by the protons in hydrogen-bonded systems. In this work we introduce a novel estimator…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Lin Lin , Joseph Morrone , Roberto Car , Michele Parrinello

We re-use some original ideas of de~Broglie, Schr\"odiger, Dirac and Feynman to revise the ensemble interpretation of wave function in quantum mechanics. To this end we introduce coherence (auto-concordance) of ensembles of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Vladimir V. Kisil

The theme of doing quantum mechanics on all abelian groups goes back to Schwinger and Weyl. If the group is a vector space of finite dimension over a non-archimedean locally compact division ring, it is of interest to examine the structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 V. S. Varadarajan

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is considered the most accurate theory in the history of science. However, this precision is limited to a single experimental value: the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron (g-factor). The calculation of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Oliver Consa

We propose a formulation of an absorbing boundary for a quantum particle. The formulation is based on a Feynman-type integral over trajectories that are confined by the absorbing boundary. Trajectories that reach the absorbing wall are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Marchewka , Z. Schuss

The purpose of this expository paper is to highlight the starring role of time-frequency analysis techniques in some recent contributions concerning the mathematical theory of Feynman path integrals. We hope to draw the interest of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 S. Ivan Trapasso

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

In perturbative calculations of quantum-statistical zero-temperature path integrals in curvilinear coordinates one encounters Feynman diagrams involving multiple temporal integrals over products of distributions, which are mathematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kleinert , A. Chervyakov

Credible reasons are presented to reveal that many of the lingering century old enigmas, surrounding the behavior of at least an individual quantum particle, can be comprehended in terms of an objectively real specific wave function. This…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Mani L. Bhaumik

The classical relativistic linear AAD interaction, introduced by the author, leads in the case of weak coupling to a pointlike particle capable to be sub- mitted to quantization via Feynman's path integrals along the line adequate to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Weiss

We present a numerical simulation of the double slit interference experiment realized by F. Shimizu, K. Shimizu and H. Takuma with ultracold atoms. We show how the Feynman path integral method enables the calculation of the time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-07 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

In this work a Feynman-Kac path integral method based on Levy measure has been proposed for solving the Cauchy problems associated with the space-time fractional Schroedinger equations arising in interacting systems in fractional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Sumita Datta , Radhika Prosad Datta

In 1932, Dirac proposed a formulation in terms of multi-time wave functions as candidate for relativistic many-particle quantum mechanics. A well-known consistency condition that is necessary for existence of solutions strongly restricts…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Dirk-André Deckert , Lukas Nickel

Hashmi et al. [J. Phys. A 49, 345302 (2016)] claimed that the approach to the past of a quantum particle introduced by Vaidman [Phys. Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013)] has difficulties in certain examples and that it even can be refuted. Here I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Lev Vaidman

I review the Feynman-Wiener path-integral formalism for diffusion with drift and jumps.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Yoni BenTov