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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

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 aim of the presented research is to give a rigorous mathematical approach to Feynman path integrals based on strong (pathwise) approximations based on simple random walks.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Tamás Szabados

Efforts to give an improved mathematical meaning to Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics started soon after its introduction and continue to this day. In the present paper, one common thread of development is followed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 John R. Klauder

By adapting Feynman's sum over paths method to a quantum mechanical system whose phase space is a torus, a new proof of the Landsberg-Schaar identity for quadratic Gauss sums is given. In contrast to existing non-elementary proofs, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Vernon Armitage , Alice Rogers

Feynman path integrals provide an elegant, classically inspired representation for the quantum propagator and the quantum dynamics, through summing over a huge manifold of all possible paths. From computational and simulational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

The reweighted random series techniques provide finite-dimensional approximations to the quantum density matrix of a physical system that have fast asymptotic convergence. We study two special reweighted techniques that are based upon the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian Predescu , Dubravko Sabo , J. D. Doll

Score-based diffusion models have proven effective in image generation and have gained widespread usage; however, the underlying factors contributing to the performance disparity between stochastic and deterministic (i.e., the probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuji Hirono , Akinori Tanaka , Kenji Fukushima

The path integral formalism gives a very illustrative and intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics but due to its difficult sum over phases one usually prefers Schr\"odinger's approach. We will show that it is possible to calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dullweber , E. R. Hilf , E. Mendel

We show how effective-potential path-integrals methods, stemming on a simple and nice idea originally due to Feynman and successfully employed in Physics for a variety of quantum thermodynamics applications, can be used to develop an…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-25 Luca Capriotti , Ruggero Vaia

We develop the contour integral method for numerically solving the Feynman-Kac equation with two internal states [P. B. Xu and W. H. Deng, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., 13 (2018), 10], describing the functional distribution of particle's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Fugui Ma , Lijing Zhao , Yejuan Wang , Weihua Deng

We review equivariant localization techniques for the evaluation of Feynman path integrals. We develop systematic geometric methods for studying the semi-classical properties of phase space path integrals for dynamical systems, emphasizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard J. Szabo

This paper provides a finite difference discretization for the backward Feynman-Kac equation, governing the distribution of functionals of the path for a particle undergoing both reaction and diffusion [Hou and Deng, J. Phys. A: Math.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

The Feynman integral is one of the most accurate methods for calculating density operator dynamics in open quantum systems. However, the number of time steps that can realistically be used is always limited, therefore one often obtains an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Nikesh S. Dattani

The Feynman path integral for nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics is studied mathematically of a standard model in physics, where the electromagnetic potential is assumed to be periodic with respect to a large box and quantized thorough…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 Wataru Ichinose

Feynman's path integrals in ordinary, p-adic and adelic quantum mechanics are considered. The corresponding probability amplitudes $ K(x^{"},t^{"};x',t')$ for two-dimensional systems with quadratic Lagrangians are evaluated analytically and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Branko Dragovich

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

We provide a detailed exposition of the connections between Boltzmann machines commonly utilized in machine learning problems and the ideas already well known in quantum statistical mechanics through Feynman's description of the same. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Srinivasan S. Iyengar , Sabre Kais

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…

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, i.e., the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over all the possible trajectories that would take the system from the initial to its final state of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Charles W. Robson , Yaraslau Tamashevich , Tapio T. Rantala , Marco Ornigotti