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Applicability of Feynman path integral approach to numerical simulations of quantum dynamics in real time domain is examined. Coherent quantum dynamics is demonstrated with one dimensional test cases (quantum dot models) and performance of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

The book deals with a stochastic formulation of path integration in real time, by rotating the_space_ variables over exp(i pi/4). Preliminary chapters deal with quantum and classical mechanics, probability theory and stochastic calculus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alec Maassen van den Brink

We introduce the tools of intersection theory to the study of Feynman integrals, which allows for a new way of projecting integrals onto a basis. In order to illustrate this technique, we consider the Baikov representation of maximal cuts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Sebastian Mizera

We show that the computational effort for the numerical solution of fermionic quantum systems, occurring e.g., in quantum chemistry, solid state physics, field theory in principle grows with less than the square of the particle number for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann , Eberhard R. Hilf

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations have become an important tool for the investigation of the statistical mechanics of quantum systems. I discuss some of the history of applying the Monte Carlo method to non-relativistic quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Tilman Sauer

Path integral techniques for the density matrix of a one-dimensional statistical system near a boundary previously employed in black-hole physics are applied to providing a new interpretation of the density matrix renormalization group: its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Gaite

Feynman proposed a postulate or a method of quantization in his celebrated paper in 1948. Applying Feynman's postulate to temporally continuous quantum measurements of the positions of particles, Mensky proposed the restricted Feynman path…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Wataru Ichinose

In this paper, we present a novel Feynman-Kac formula and investigate learning-based methods for approximating general nonlinear time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations which may be high-dimensional. Our formulation integrates both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Hang Cheung , Jinniao Qiu , Yang Yang

We propose a general theoretical approach to quantum measurements based on the path (histories) summation technique. For a given dynamical variable A, the Schr\"odinger state of a system in a Hilbert space of arbitrary dimensionality is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Sokolovski , R. Sala Mayato

We investigate, by numerical simulation, the path probability of non dissipative mechanical systems undergoing stochastic motion. The aim is to search for the relationship between this probability and the usual mechanical action. The model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. L. Lin , R. Wang , W. P. Bi , A. El Kaabouchi , C. Pujos , F. Calvayrac , Q. A. Wang

Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of work functional along individual Feynman path, we invent a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-30 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

In this paper, we are concerned with the numerical solution for the backward fractional Feynman-Kac equation with non-smooth initial data. Here we first provide the regularity estimate of the solution. And then we use the backward Euler and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jing Sun , Daxin Nie , Weihua Deng

A kink-based expression for the canonical partition function is developed using Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and a discrete basis set. The approach is exact for a complete set of states. The method is tested on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall W. Hall

The one-sided bouncer and the symmetric bouncer involve a one-dimensional particle in a piecewise linear potential. For such problems, the time-dependent quantum mechanical propagator cannot be found in closed form. The semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yen Lee Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

We derive the path-integral representation of the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process driven by Riemann-Liouville fractional Gaussian noise, for both the subdiffusive and superdiffusive regimes. We express the corresponding action, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Bing Miao , Gleb Oshanin , Luca Peliti

We study finite-dimensional integrals in a way that elucidates the mathematical meaning behind the formal manipulations of path integrals occurring in quantum field theory. This involves a proper understanding of how Wick's theorem allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Timothy Nguyen

It has been proposed that random wide neural networks near Gaussian process are quantum field theories around Gaussian fixed points. In this paper, we provide a novel map with which a wide class of quantum mechanical systems can be cast…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 Koji Hashimoto , Yuji Hirono , Jun Maeda , Jojiro Totsuka-Yoshinaka

In this paper we develop a quantization method for flat compact manifolds based on path integrals. In this method the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions in the complexification of the manifold is used. This space is a reproducing kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Guillermo Capobianco , Walter Reartes

Developing new methods for the accurate and efficient calculations of real-time quantum correlation functions is deemed one of the most challenging problems of modern condensed matter theory. Many popular methods, such as centroid molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni

In this article, I provide significant mathematical evidence in support of the existence of short-time approximations of any polynomial order for the computation of density matrices of physical systems described by arbitrarily smooth and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian Predescu