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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

The path-integral approach to cosmology consists in the computation of transition amplitudes between states of the quantum geometry of the universe. In the past, the concrete computation of these transitions amplitudes has been performed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-22 Francesca Vidotto

Path integrals are a central tool when it comes to describing quantum or thermal fluctuations of particles or fields. Their success dates back to Feynman who showed how to use them within the framework of quantum mechanics. Since then, path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric Van Wijland

Feynman's path integral is generalized to quantum mechanics on p-adic space and time. Such p-adic path integral is analytically evaluated for quadratic Lagrangians. Obtained result has the same form as that one in ordinary quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branko Dragovich

We report on a new method for the numerical evaluation of loop integrals, based on the Feynman Tree Theorem. The loop integrals are replaced by phase-space integration over fictitious extra on-shell particles. This integration can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-08 Wolfgang Kilian , Tobias Kleinschmidt

In the first-quantised worldline approach to quantum field theory, a long-standing problem has been to extend this formalism to amplitudes involving open fermion lines while maintaining the efficiency of the well-tested closed-loop case. In…

We examine mathematical questions around angle (or phase) operator associated with a number operator through a short list of basic requirements. We implement three methods of construction of quantum angle. The first one is based on operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jean Pierre Gazeau , Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec

We present a numerical method to evaluate worldline (WL) path integrals defined on a curved Euclidean space, sampled with Monte Carlo (MC) techniques. In particular, we adopt an algorithm known as YLOOPS with a slight modification due to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Olindo Corradini , Maurizio Muratori

Mean-field dynamo equations are addressed with the aid of the path-integral method. The evolution of magnetic field is treated as a three-dimensional Wiener random process, and the mean magnetic-field equations are obtained with the Wiener…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Dmitry Sokoloff , Nobumitsu Yokoi

Path integration is a respected form of quantization that all theoretical quantum physicists should welcome. This elaboration begins with simple examples of three different versions of path integration. After an important clarification of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 John R. Klauder

A comprehensive study is performed of general massive, scalar, two-loop Feynman diagrams with three external legs. Algorithms for their numerical evaluation are introduced and discussed, numerical results are shown for all different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ferroglia , G. Passarino , M. Passera , S. Uccirati

Numerical evaluations of Feynman integrals often proceed via a deformation of the integration contour into the complex plane. While valid contours are easy to construct, the numerical precision for a multi-loop integral can depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 Ramon Winterhalder , Vitaly Magerya , Emilio Villa , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Anja Butter , Gudrun Heinrich , Tilman Plehn

We present an integral formalism for constructing scheme transformations in a quantum field theory. We apply this to generate several new useful scheme transformations. A comparative analysis is given of these scheme transformations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-05 Gongjun Choi , Robert Shrock

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

Tensor network formalisms have emerged as powerful tools for simulating quantum state evolution. While widely applied in the study of optical quantum circuits, such as Boson Sampling, existing tensor network approaches fail to address the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Dario Cilluffo , Matthias Kost , Nicola Lorenzoni , Martin B. Plenio

I review discrete and continuum approaches to quantized gravity based on the covariant Feynman path integral approach.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-19 Herbert W. Hamber

we will show the existence and uniqueness of a real-time, time-sliced Feynman path integral for quantum systems with vector potential. Our formulation of the path integral will be derived on the $L^2$ transition probability amplitude via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Loo

A recursive algebraic method which allows to obtain the Feynman or Schwinger parametric representation of a generic L-loops and (E+1) external lines diagram, in a scalar $\phi ^{3}\oplus \phi ^{4}$ theory, is presented. The representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivan Gonzalez , Ivan Schmidt

In this talk we discuss mathematical structures associated to Feynman graphs. Feynman graphs are the backbone of calculations in perturbative quantum field theory. The mathematical structures -- apart from being of interest in their own…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Christian Bogner , Stefan Weinzierl

Path integral techniques in collective fields are shown to be a useful analytical tool to reformulate a field theory defined in terms of microscopic quark (gluon) degrees of freedom as an effective theory of collective boson (meson) fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Ebert