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We derive two path integral estimators for the derivative of the quantum mechanical potential of mean force (PMF), which may be numerically integrated to yield the PMF. For the first estimator, we perform the differentiation on the exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Kevin P. Bishop , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

We demonstrate how path integrals often used in problems of theoretical physics can be adapted to provide a machinery for performing Bayesian inference in function spaces. Such inference comes about naturally in the study of inverse…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-07-23 Joshua C Chang , Van Savage , Tom Chou

Perturbative quantum field theory usually uses second quantisation and Feynman diagrams. The worldline formalism provides an alternative approach based on first quantised particle path integrals, similar in spirit to string perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 James P. Edwards , Christian Schubert

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

We analyze the relaxation dynamics of Feynman-Kac path integral kernel functions in terms of branching diffusion processes with killing. This sheds new light on the admissible path-wise description of the relaxation to equilibrium for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-23 P. Garbaczewski , M. Zaba

Discrete-time quantum walk in one-dimension is studied from a path-integral perspective. This enables derivation of a closed-form expression for amplitudes corresponding to any coin-position basis of the state vector of the quantum walker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Karthik S. Joshi , S. K. Srivatsa , R. Srikanth

This is a brief review on Brownian functionals in one dimension and their various applications, a contribution to the special issue ``The Legacy of Albert Einstein" of Current Science. After a brief description of Einstein's original…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satya N. Majumdar

In Euclidean path integrals, quantum mechanical tunneling amplitudes are associated with instanton configurations. We explain how tunneling amplitudes are encoded in real-time Feynman path integrals. The essential steps are borrowed from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Aleksey Cherman , Mithat Unsal

Using the path integral measure factorization method based on the nonlinear filtering equation from the stochastic process theory, we consider the reduction procedure in Wiener path integrals for a mechanical system with symmetry that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 S. N. Storchak

The path integral approach to the quantization of one degree-of-freedom Newtonian particles is considered within the discrete time-slicing approach, as in Feynman's original development. In the time-slicing approximation the quantum…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris M. Field , Frank W. Nijhoff

The transformation of the path integral measure under the reduction procedure in the dynamical systems with a symmetry is considered. The investigation is carried out in the case of the Wiener--type path integrals that are used for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. N. Storchak

We invent an automated method for computing the divergent part of Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization. Our method exploits simplifications from four-dimensional integration-by-parts identities. Leveraging algorithms from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-19 Johannes Henn , Rourou Ma , Kai Yan , Yang Zhang

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

In recent years efficient algorithms have been developed for the numerical computation of relativistic single-particle path integrals in quantum field theory. Here, we adapt this "worldline Monte Carlo" approach to the standard problem of…

Extension of Feynman's path integral to quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates is considered. The corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is formulated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

A real-time path integral for ultrasoft QCD is formulated. It exhibits a Feynman's influence functional. The statistical properties of the theory and the gauge symmetry are explicit. The correspondence is established with the alternative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Guerin , E. Iancu

Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

The density of states for a particle moving in a random potential with a Gaussian correlator is calculated exactly using the functional integral technique. It is achieved by expressing the functional degrees of freedom in terms of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 O. K. Vorov , A. V. Vagov

This work presents a probabilistic scheme for solving semilinear nonlocal diffusion equations with volume constraints and integrable kernels. The nonlocal model of interest is defined by a time-dependent semilinear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Minglei Yang , Guannan Zhang , Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete , Yanzhao Cao

Quantum measurement problem is still unconsensus since it has existed many years and inspired a large of literature in physics and philosophy. We show it can be subsumed into the quantum theory if we extend the Feynman path integral by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-12 Wei Wen