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We comment on the paper "Feynman Effective Classical Potential in the Schrodinger Formulation"[Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3303 (1998)]. We show that the results in this paper about the time evolution of a wave packet in a double well potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Andronico , V. Branchina , D. Zappala'

The classic paper by Fleming, Mehen and Stewart cast doubts on the convergence of spin-triplet nucleon-nucleon partial wave scattering amplitudes when following the proposal of Kaplan, Savage and Wise to construct nuclear effective field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 David B. Kaplan

With the advent of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg in 1925 exactly a century ago, the quantization of the electromagnetic field became an important goal for our founding fathers, whom we are here to celebrate. It was realized very soon that…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Tuck Choy , Miguel Ortuno

This work is motivated by the long-standing question about the internal stability of the electron. While one cannot investigate internal properties of a point-like particle, it is fair to analyze the response of the Dirac sea to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 F. J. Himpsel

We study the spin factor problem both in $3+1$ and $2+1$ dimensions which are essentially different for spin factor construction. Doing all Grassmann integrations in the corresponding path integral representations for Dirac propagator we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 D. M. Gitman , S. I. Zlatev

In the path integral expression for a Feynman propagator of a spinless particle of mass $m$, the path integral amplitude for a path of proper length ${\cal R}(x,x'| g_{\mu\nu})$ connecting events $x$ and $x'$ in a spacetime described by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Srinivasan , L. Sriramkumar , T. Padmanabhan

We write a space-time Feynman path integral representation for scattered elastic wave fields from a weakly compact supported anisotropic non-homogeneity.Replacement by a new version where We (I!) propose a new tomographic inversion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Luiz C. L. Botelho

We propose a Fresnel stochastic white noise framework to analyze the stochastic nature of the Feynman paths entering on the Feynman Path Integral expression for the Feynman propagator of a particle quantum mechanically moving under a time…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Luiz C L Botelho

We consider Dirac fermion confined in harmonic potential and submitted to a constant magnetic field. The corresponding solutions of the energy spectrum are obtained by using the path integral techniques. For this, we begin by establishing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-06 Abdeldjalil Merdaci , Ahmed Jellal , Lyazid Chetouani

In 1986, while at UCLA working with C. Fronsdal and M. Flato, I proposed a model for conformal QED that I claimed to be divergence-free and nontrivial. The results for one loop calculation were given. However, a debate about unitarity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 A. D. Alhaidari

The year 2025 marked the centennial of quantum mechanics, inaugurated by Heisenberg's matrix formulation and the foundational contributions of Pauli, Schrodinger, and Dirac. Concurrently, 2026 marks the centennial of the Klein - Gordon…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Volodimir Simulik , Denys I. Bondar

Recently in [Phys. Rev. D $99$ $(2019)$ 104010] the non-relativistic Feynman propagator for harmonic oscillator system is presented when the generalized uncertainty principle is employed. In this short comment it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 DaeKil Park , Eylee Jung

Continuous time Feynman-Kac measures on path spaces are central in applied probability, partial differential equation theory, as well as in quantum physics. This article presents a new duality formula between normalized Feynman-Kac…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Marc Arnaudon , Pierre del Moral

The ether concept -- abandoned for a long time but reinstated by Dirac in 1951-1953 -- has in recent years emerged into a fashionable subject in theoretical physics, now usually with the name of the Einstein-Dirac ether. It means that one…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Iver Brevik

In October 1924, the Physical Review, a relatively minor journal at the time, published a remarkable two-part paper by John H. Van Vleck, working in virtual isolation at the University of Minnesota. Van Vleck combined advanced techniques of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anthony Duncan , Michel Janssen

We analyze Vaidman's three-path interferometer with weak path marking [Phys. Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013)] and find that common sense yields correct statements about the particle's path through the interferometer. This disagrees with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Berthold-Georg Englert , Kelvin Horia , Jibo Dai , Yink Loong Len , Hui Khoon Ng

Feynman integral reduction based on intersection theory provides an alternative to the traditional integration-by-parts method, yet its practical application has been constrained by the large number of variables required in the computation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Li-Hong Huang , Yan-Qing Ma , Ziwen Wang , Li Lin Yang

We study the problem of solving integration-by-parts recurrence relations for a given class of Feynman integrals which is characterized by an arbitrary polynomial in the numerator and arbitrary integer powers of propagators, {\it i.e.}, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. A. Smirnov , M. Steinhauser

The Dirac's formalism for constrained systems is applied to the analysis of time-dependent Hamiltonians in the extended phase space. We show that the Lewis invariant is a reparametrization invariant and we calculate the Feynman propagator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Angel Garcia-Chung , Daniel Gutiérrez Ruiz , J. David Vergara

Both Bohmian mechanics, a version of quantum mechanics with trajectories, and Feynman's path integral formalism have something to do with particle paths in space and time. The question thus arises how the two ideas relate to each other. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roderich Tumulka