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In this work, we generalise Gelfand-Yaglom-type methods in the vector case for the computation of Gaussian path integrals. The extension we propose allows to consider general second variation operators subject to different boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-06 Giulio Corazza

In this work we give a comprehensive derivation of an exact and numerically feasible method to perform ab-initio calculations of quantum particles interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field. We present a hierachy of…

The quantization of the Hamiltonian for a scalar field is performed in the framework of Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity. We outline how the regularization can be performed by using the analogous tools adopted in full Loop Quantum Gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-23 Jakub Bilski , Emanuele Alesci , Francesco Cianfrani

In this paper, we consider a spherically curved symmetric spacetime to exact solving the orbit equation of a massive particle by using Jacobi's elliptic functions. Generally, the solution of the orbit equation provides the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-17 A. S. Ribeiro , F. N. Lima

A method for calculating the relativistic path integral solution via sum over perturbation series is given. As an application the exact path integral solution of the relativistic Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb system is obtained by the method.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 De-Hone Lin

A novel energy minimization formulation of electrostatics that allows computation of the electrostatic energy and forces to any desired accuracy in a system with arbitrary dielectric properties is presented. An integral equation for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. I. Obolensky , T. P. Doerr , R. Ray , Yi-Kuo Yu

The general treatment of a separable Hamiltonian of Liouville-type is well-known in operator formalism. A path integral counterpart is formulated if one starts with the Jacobi's principle of least action, and a path integral evaluation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Fujikawa

We to define a Path Integral in Lorentzian time by restricting the relevant domain of integration on $C([0,1],M)$ over a Riemannian configuration manifold $(M,g)$ and considering the dynamics of a particle evolving between to fixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Timur Obolenskiy

I propose a path integral description of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian, both in one and two dimensions, after mapping the real space model onto the time scale. While the lattice degrees of freedom are classical functions of time and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Zoli

We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

The energy levels of hydrogen-like atoms are obtained from the phase-space quantization, one of the pillars of the old quantum theory, by three different methods - (i) direct integration, (ii) Sommerfeld's original method, and (iii) complex…

Geometrization of a Lagrangian conservative system typically amounts to reformulating its equations of motion as the geodesic equations in a properly chosen curved spacetime. The conventional methods include the Jacobi metric and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Anton Galajinsky

We derive a repulsive, charge-dipole-like interaction for a Dirac particle in a rotating frame, arising from a geometric $U(1)$ gauge symmetry associated with the Berry phase. The Lagrangian of this system includes a non-inertial correction…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-06 Maike Fahrensohn , R. Matthias Geilhufe

We propose in this paper an alternative method for the quantisation of systems with first-class constraints. This method is a combination of the coherent-state-path-integral quantisation developed by Klauder, with the ideas of reduced state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charis Anastopoulos

Construction of skeletonized path integrals for a particle moving on a curved spatial manifold is considered. As shown by DeWitt, Kuchar and others, while the skeletonized configuration space action can be written unambiguously as a sum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John T. Whelan

We solve numerically exactly a simple toy model to quantum general relativity or more properly to path integral on a curved space. We consider the thermal equilibrium of a quantum many body problem on the sphere, the surface of constant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-25 Riccardo Fantoni

We follow the Feynman procedure to obtain a path integral formulation of loop quantum cosmology starting from the Hilbert space framework. Quantum geometry effects modify the weight associated with each path so that the effective measure on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 Abhay Ashtekar , Miguel Campiglia , Adam Henderson

In this Letter I present an alternative solution of the path integral for the radial Coulomb problem which is based on a two-dimensional singular version of the Levi-Civita transformation.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Grosche

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

A path integral formulation of the Bianchi I models containing a massless scalar field in loop quantum cosmology is constructed. Following the strategy used in the homogenous and isotropic case, the calculation is extended to the simplest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Xiao Liu , Fei Huang , Jian-Yang Zhu