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We discuss some formal aspects of quantum anomalies with an emphasis on the regularization of field theory. We briefly review how ambiguities in perturbation theory have been resolved by various regularization schemes. To single out the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Kazuo Fujikawa

The square matrix-based convergence map (CM) method has proven effective in characterizing nonlinear dynamics in several 4-D dynamical systems. However, when time-dependent perturbations, such as crabbing kicks in colliders, are present, a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jinyu Wan , Yue Hao

The trace anomaly and anomaly-induced action are evaluated for the two-dimensional $2D$ vector theory with classical conformal symmetry. Implementing local conformal symmetry while preserving the gauge invariance requires either giving up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Samuel W. P. Oliveira , Ilya L. Shapiro

Quantum subspace diagonalization methods are an exciting new class of algorithms for solving large\rev{-}scale eigenvalue problems using quantum computers. Unfortunately, these methods require the solution of an ill-conditioned generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ethan N. Epperly , Lin Lin , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We investigate the quantum phase transitions of spin systems in one and two dimensions by employing trace distance and multipartite entanglement along with real-space quantum renormalization group method. As illustration examples, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Wei Wu , Jing-Bo Xu

The normalization in the path integral approach to quantum field theory, in contrast with statistical field theory, can contain physical information. The main claim of this paper is that the inner product on the space of field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 I. M. Burbano , Francisco Calderón

Systems with constraints pose problems when they are quantized. Moreover, the Dirac procedure of quantization prior to reduction is preferred. The projection operator method of quantization, which can be most conveniently described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John R. Klauder

A detailed discussion of semiclassical trace formulae is presented and it is demonstrated how a regularized trace formula can be derived while dealing only with finite and convergent expressions. Furthermore, several applications of trace…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Jens Bolte

The statistical properties of quantum transport through a chaotic cavity are encoded in the traces $\T={\rm Tr}(tt^\dag)^n$, where $t$ is the transmission matrix. Within the Random Matrix Theory approach, these traces are random variables…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-04 Marcel Novaes

In this paper we study ensembles of finite real spectral triples equipped with a path integral over the space of possible Dirac operators. In the noncommutative geometric setting of spectral triples, Dirac operators take the center stage as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hamed Hessam , Masoud Khalkhali , Nathan Pagliaroli

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

In this work a loop quantum corrected model is obtained for spherically symmetric space-times in the vacuum. This effective model is derived by the use of the path integral method, previously employed in several models of Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Hugo A. Morales

This paper presents a novel hybrid approach to solving real-world drone routing problems by leveraging the capabilities of quantum computing. The proposed method, coined Quantum for Drone Routing (Q4DR), integrates the two most prominent…

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

The general problems of three-dimensional quantum gravity are recatitulated here, putting the emphasis on the mathematical problems of defining the measure of the path integral over all three-dimensional metrics.This work should be viewed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Enrique Alvarez

The path integral representation of the transition amplitude for a particle moving in curved space has presented unexpected challenges since the introduction of path integrals by Feynman fifty years ago. In this paper we discuss and review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini

We show how to construct path integrals for quantum mechanical systems where the space of configurations is a general non-compact symmetric space. Associated with this path integral is a perturbation theory which respects the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Noah Linden , Malcolm Perry

The effects of quantum corrections to a conformally invariant scalar field theory on a curved manifold of positive constant curvature with boundary are considered in the context of a renormalisation procedure. The renormalisation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 George Tsoupros

Two formulations of quantum mechanics, inequivalent in the presence of closed timelike curves, are studied in the context of a soluable system. It illustrates how quantum field nonlinearities lead to a breakdown of unitarity, causality, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. David Politzer

In the present paper we evaluate the anomaly for the abelian axial current in a non abelian chiral gauge theory, by using dimensional regularization. This amount to formulate a procedure for managing traces with more than one $\gamma_5$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Ruggero Ferrari