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We study approximations of Feynman path integrals in finite dimensional spaces and how the approximations determine the propagator.

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We describe the "Feynman diagram" approach to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics on R^n, with magnetic and potential terms. In particular, for each classical path \gamma connecting points q_0 and q_1 in time t, we define a formal power…

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We formulate a new quantum equivalence principle by which a path integral for a particle in a general metric-affine space is obtained from that in a flat space by a non-holonomic coordinate transformation. The new path integral is free of…

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The very early universe is understood in terms of quantum field theories on curved spacetime, where the classical background spacetime is typically an FLRW cosmology and the quantum fields which propagate on it include gravitational waves…

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We developed a path integral formalism for the quantum mechanics in a rotating reference of frame, and proposed a spin path integral description for the spin degrees of freedom in it. We have also give some examples for the applications of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Chern , Wu Ning , Yu Yue

The Feynman Propagator of a charged particle confined to an anisotropic Harmonic Oscillator potential and moving in a crossed electromagnetic field is calculated in a conceptually new way. The calculation is based on the expansion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Cyril Belardinelli

We present a simple derivation of the Hellmann-Feynman theorem at finite temperature. We illustrate its validity by considering three relevant examples which can be used in quantum mechanics lectures: the one-dimensional harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Marina Pons , Bruno Juliá-Díaz , Arnau Rios , Isaac Vidaña , Artur Polls

In this paper we study the quantum evolution in a flat Riemannian manifold. The holomorphic functions are defined on the cotangent bundle of this manifold. We construct Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions in which the scalar product is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Guillermo Capobianco , Walter Reartes

Many introductory courses in quantum mechanics include Feynman's time-slicing definition of the path integral, with a complete derivation of the propagator in the simplest of cases. However, attempts to generalize this, for instance to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Dana S. Fine , Stephen F. Sawin

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

The path integral for space-time noncommutative theory is formulated by means of Schwinger's action principle which is based on the equations of motion and a suitable ansatz of asymptotic conditions. The resulting path integral has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuo Fujikawa

Time-symmetric quantum mechanics can be described in the usual Weyl--Wigner--Moyal formalism (WWM) by using the properties of the Wigner distribution, and its generalization, the cross-Wigner distribution. The use of the latter makes clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Charlyne de Gosson , Maurice de Gosson

The Feynman path integral plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics, offering significant insights into the interaction between classical action and propagators, and linking quantum electrodynamics (QED) with Feynman diagrams. However, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 W. Wen

It is discussed an opportunity to introduce new class of quantum algorithms based on possibility to express amplitude of transition between two states of quantum system as sum of some function along all possible classical paths. Continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

Feynman path integrals provide an elegant, classically inspired representation for the quantum propagator and the quantum dynamics, through summing over a huge manifold of all possible paths. From computational and simulational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

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

As argued previously, amplitudes of quantum field theories on noncommutative space and time cannot be computed using naive path integral Feynman rules. One of the proposals is to use the Gell-Mann--Low formula with time-ordering applied…

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The alternative dynamics of loop quantum cosmology is examined by the path integral formulation. We consider the spatially flat FRW models with a massless scalar field, where the alternative quantization inherit more features from full loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Li Qin , Guo Deng , Yongge Ma

The restricted Feynman path integrals (RFPIs) have been proposed to study continuous quantum measurements in physics. The RFPIs are heuristically determined in terms of the usual probability amplitude multiplied by weight for each path,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Wataru Ichinose

We study a class of universal Feynman integrals which appear in four-dimensional holomorphic theories. We recast the integrals as the Fourier transform of a certain polytope in the space of loop momenta (aka the ``Operatope''). We derive a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Kasia Budzik , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Kulp , Jingxiang Wu , Matthew Yu