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The Feynman path integral is defined over the space $\mathbb{R}^T$ of all possible paths; it has been a powerful tool to develop Quantum Mechanics. The absolute value of Feynman's integrand is not integrable, then Lebesgue integration…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Ricardo Gaitan , M. Guadalupe Morales

We solve time-sliced path integrals of one-dimensional Coulomb system in an exact manner. In formulating path integrals, we make use of the Duru-Kleinert transformation with Fujikawa's gauge theoretical technique. Feynman kernels in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Seiji Sakoda

We provide a new paradigm for quantum simulation that is based on path integration that allows quantum speedups to be observed for problems that are more naturally expressed using the path integral formalism rather than the conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Serene Shum , Nathan Wiebe

Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

A systematic classification of Feynman path integrals in quantum mechanics is presented and a table of solvable path integrals is given which reflects the progress made during the last ten years or so, including, of course, the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche , Frank Steiner

In this paper we introduce a new procedure on precise analysis of various physical manifestations in superconducting Qubits using the concept of Feynman path integral in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Three specific problem are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Ali Izadi Rad , Hesam Zandi , Mehdi Fardmanesh

We describe how to construct and compute unambiguously path integrals for particles moving in a curved space, and how these path integrals can be used to calculate Feynman graphs and effective actions for various quantum field theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fiorenzo Bastianelli

We consider Feynman's path integral approach to quantum mechanics with a noncommutativity in position and momentum sectors of the phase space. We show that a quantum-mechanical system with this kind of noncommutativity is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

An approach to evaluation of the smooth Feynman path integrals is developed for the study of quantum fluctuations of particles and fields in Euclidean time-space. The paths are described by sum of Gauss functions and are weighted with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Takayasu Sekihara

Simultaneously with inventing the modern relativistic formalism of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman presented also a first-quantized representation of QED in terms of worldline path integrals. Although this alternative formulation has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Schubert

We follow up the work, where in light of the Picard-Lefschetz thimble approach, we split up the real-time path integral into two parts: the initial density matrix part which can be represented via an ensemble of initial conditions, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg

We present a new scheme which numerically evaluates the real-time path integral for $\phi^4$ real scalar field theory in a lattice version of the closed-time formalism. First step of the scheme is to rewrite the path integral in an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-08-30 Shinji Takeda

Complex (semi-)classical paths, or instantons, form an integral part of our understanding of quantum physics. Whereas real classical paths describe classically allowed transitions in the real-time Feynman path integral, classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Job Feldbrugge , Ue-Li Pen

The Feynman path integral formalism has inspired the development of memory-efficient and parallelizable classical algorithms for simulating quantum computers. We adapt this approach for the calculation of probability amplitudes of…

Path integrals developed by Richard Feynman have been an important tool in Physics in studying quantum field theory. In mathematics, it has also been widely used in providing formal proofs in the study of Index theorem and asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Zhehua Li

An approach to approximate evaluation of the continuum Feynman path integrals is developed for the study of quantum fluctuations of particles and fields in Euclidean time-space. The paths are described by sum of Gauss functions and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Takayasu Sekihara

The worldline path integral approach to the Bern-Kosower formalism is reviewed, which offers an alternative to Feynman diagram calculations in quantum field theory. Recent progress in constructing a multiloop generalization of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

Although the Hamiltonian formalism is so far favored for quantum computation of lattice gauge theory, the path integral formalism would never be useless. The advantages of the path integral formalism are the knowledge and experience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Arata Yamamoto

Consistent dynamics which couples classical and quantum degrees of freedom exists. This dynamics is linear in the hybrid state, completely positive and trace preserving. Starting from completely positive classical-quantum master equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

Symplectic quantization is a functional approach to quantum field theory that allows sampling of quantum fluctuations directly in Minkowski space-time by means of a generalized microcanonical ensemble similar to the one of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Martina Giachello , Francesco Scardino , Giacomo Gradenigo