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Path-integral approach in imaginary and complex time has been proven successful in treating the tunneling phenomena in quantum mechanics and quantum field theories. Latest developments in this field, the proper valley method in imaginary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideaki Aoyama , Toshiyuki Harano , Hisashi Kikuchi , Ikuo Okouchi , Masatoshi Sato , Shinya Wada

In the conformal-gauge two-dimensional quantum gravity, the solution obtained by the perturbative or path-integral approach is compared with the one obtained by the operator-formalism approach. Treatments of the anomaly problem in both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Mitsuo Abe , Noboru Nakanishi

We develop a non-perturbative method for calculating partition functions of strongly coupled quantum mechanical systems with interactions between subsystems described by a path integral of a dual system. The dual path integral is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 Vitaly Vanchurin

Many observables in quantum field theory can be expressed in terms of trans-series, in which one adds to the perturbative series a typically infinite sum of exponentially small corrections, due to instantons or to renormalons. Even after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 Marcos Marino , Ramon Miravitllas , Tomás Reis

In this work we develop an alternative approach for solution of Quantum Trajectories using the Path Integral method. The state-of-the-art technique in the field is to solve a set of non-linear, coupled partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Sagnik Ghosh , Swapan K. Ghosh

We apply Borel resummation method to the conventional perturbation series of ground state energy in a metastable potential, $V(x)=x^2/2-gx^4/4$. We observe numerically that the discontinuity of Borel transform reproduces the imaginary part…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiroshi Suzuki , Hirofumi Yasuta

Using tangent bundle geometry we construct an equivalent reformulation of classical field theory on flat spacetimes which simultaneously encodes the perspectives of multiple observers. Its generalization to curved spacetimes realizes a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We study quantum mechanical systems with a discrete spectrum. We show that the asymptotic series associated to certain paths of steepest-descent (Lefschetz thimbles) are Borel resummable to the full result. Using a geometrical approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Marco Serone , Gabriele Spada , Giovanni Villadoro

We describe a new and consistent perturbation theory for solid-state quantum computation with many qubits. The errors in the implementation of simple quantum logic operations caused by non-resonant transitions are estimated. We verify our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. P. Berman , G. D. Doolen , D. I. Kamenev , V. I. Tsifrinovich

The path integral by which quantum field theories are defined is a particular solution of a set of functional differential equations arising from the Schwinger action principle. In fact these equations have a multitude of additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gerald Guralnik , Zachary Guralnik

In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Nigro , G. Ambrosetti , C. Grimaldi , T. Maeder , P. Ryser

We obtain direct, finite, descriptions of a renormalized quantum mechanical system with no reference to ultraviolet cutoffs and running coupling constants, in both the Hamiltonian and path integral pictures. The path integral description…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Henderson , S. G. Rajeev

We have developed a proper path integral formalism consistent with the deformed version of the quantum mechanics which contains a maximum observable length scale at the order of the Cosmological particle horizon, existing in cosmology.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Souvik Pramanik

Using noncommutative deformed canonical commutation relations, a model describing a noncommutative complex scalar field theory is considered. Using the path integral formalism, the noncommutative free and exact propagators are calculated to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-23 Farid Khelili

I discuss in this paper the behaviour of the solutions of the so-called q-hyperbolic potentials, i.e. P"oschl-Teller-like and conditionally solvable potentials, in terms of the path integral formalism. The differences in comparison to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Grosche

We develop a new numerical scheme which allows precise solution of coherent tunneling problems, i.e., problems with exponentially small transition amplitudes between quasidegenerate states. We explain how this method works for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov , Igor Tupitsyn

We bring together the semiclassical approximation, matrix integrals and the theory of symmetric polynomials in order to solve a long standing problem in the field of quantum chaos: to compute transport moments when tunnel barriers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas H. Oliveira , Pedro H. S. Bento , Marcel Novaes

We present a path - integral approach to treat a 2D model of a quantum bifurcation. The model potential has two equivalent minima separated by one or two saddle points, depending on the value of a continuous parameter. Tunneling is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. Benderskii , E. V. Vetoshkin , E. I. Kats , L. D. Landau , H. P. Trommsdorff

We present a {\sl non--perturbative} method, called {\sl Parametric Perturbation Theory} (PPT), which is alternative to the ordinary perturbation theory. The method relies on a principle of simplicity for the observable solutions, which are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Amore

The core of this thesis is the path-integral formulation of quantum field theory and its ability to describe strongly-coupled quantum many-body systems of finite size. Collective behaviors can be efficiently described in such systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Kilian Fraboulet