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Semiclassical methods are extremely valuable in the study of transport and thermodynamical properties of ballistic microstructures. By expressing the conductance in terms of classical trajectories, we demonstrate that quantum interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We construct a space of ideal elements (particles and their paths) to analyze certain aspects of quantum physics. The particles are taken from a model of particle interaction first described by David Deutsch (based on a different but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Warren Leffler

Background: Path integrals are a powerful tool for solving problems in quantum theory that are not amenable to a treatment by perturbation theory. Most path integral computations require an analytic continuation to imaginary time. While…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 W. N. Polyzou , Ekaterina Nathanson

Feynman's path integral is herein generalized to the nonextensive canonical density matrix based on Tsallis entropy. This generalization is done in two ways by using unnormalized and normalized constraints. Firstly, we consider the path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. K. Lenzi , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes

The paper contains description of the path integrals in the action-angle phase space. It allows to split the action and angle degrees of freedom and to show that the angular quantum corrections cancel each other if the classical classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 J. Manjavidze

The very early universe is understood in terms of quantum field theories on curved spacetime, where the classical background spacetime is typically an FLRW cosmology and the quantum fields which propagate on it include gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Alice Di Tucci

we will provide a rigorous computation for the harmonic oscillator Feynman path integral. The computation will be done without having prior knowledge of the classical path. We will see that properties of classical physics falls out…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

The reality and convexity of the effective potential in quantum field theories has been studied extensively in the context of Euclidean space-time. It has been shown that canonical and path-integral approaches may yield different results,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-06 E. N. Argyres , M. T. M. van Kessel , R. H. P. Kleiss

The Feynman path integral approach to quantum mechanics is examined in the case where the configuration space is curved. It is shown how the ambiguity that is present in the choice of path integral measure may be resolved if, in addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Toms

Quantum walks are promising tools based on classical random walks, with plenty of applications such as many variants of optimization. Here we introduce the semiclassical walks in discrete time, which are algorithms that combines classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

This model is one of the possible geometrical interpretations of Quantum Mechanics where found to every image Path correspondence the geodesic trajectory of classical test particles in the random geometry of the stochastic fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 Timur F. Kamalov

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 Hamiltonian dynamics in an extra time variable $\tau$ which, at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-06 Martina Giachello , Francesco Scardino , Giacomo Gradenigo

Complex-valued semiclassical methods hold out the promise of treating classically allowed and classically forbidden processes on the same footing. In addition, they provide a natural way to describe optical excitation with complex fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Werner Koch , David J. Tannor

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

In this contribution a path integral approach for the quantum motion on three-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short``Koenigs-Spaces'', is discussed. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Christian Grosche

In this paper the Feynman path integral technique is applied for superintegrable potentials on two-dimensional spaces of non-constant curvature: these spaces are Darboux spaces D_I and D_II, respectively. On D_I there are three and on D_II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Grosche , George S. Pogosyan , Alexei N. Sissakian

A method is presented which restricts the space of paths entering the path integral of quantum mechanics to subspaces of $C^\alpha$, by only allowing paths which possess at least $\alpha$ derivatives. The method introduces two external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Benjamin Koch , Ignacio Reyes

The Euclidean path integral quite often involves an action that is not completely real {\it i.e.} a complex action. This occurs when the Minkowski action contains $t$-odd CP-violating terms. Analytic continuation to Euclidean time yields an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Garnik Alexanian , R. MacKenzie , M. B. Paranjape , Jonathan Ruel

We study quantum mechanical tunneling using complex solutions of the classical field equations. Simple visualization techniques allow us to unify and generalize previous treatments, and straightforwardly show the connection to the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sebastian F. Bramberger , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

We argue that the natural way to generalise a tensor network variational class to a continuous quantum system is to use the Feynman path integral to implement a continuous tensor contraction. This approach is illustrated for the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Christoph Brockt , Jutho Haegeman , David Jennings , Tobias J. Osborne , Frank Verstraete