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The partition function for a system of non-interacting $N-$particles can be found by summing over all the states of the system. The classical partition function for an ideal gas differs from Bosonic or Fermionic partition function in the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-04-06 Sushil K. Singh , Savinder Kaur

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We propose a phase-space representation concept in terms of the Wigner function for a quantum harmonic oscillator model that exhibits the semiconfinement effect through its mass varying with the position. The new method is used to compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 S. M. Nagiyev , A. M. Jafarova , E. I. Jafarov

Recursion formulae of the N-particle partition function, the occupation numbers and its fluctuations are given using the single-particle partition function. Exact results are presented for fermions and bosons in a common one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 H. -J. Schmidt , J. Schnack

We consider the numerical integration of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a potential trap given by a time-dependent harmonic potential or a small perturbation thereof. Splitting methods are frequently used with Fourier techniques since…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes

We consider the $q$-deformed Schr\"odinger equation of the harmonic oscillator on the $N$-dimensional quantum Euclidian space. The creation and annihilation operator are found, which systematically produce all energy levels and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Ursula Carow-Watamura , Satoshi Watamura

We show that two elementary worldline path integrals-the thermal partition function of the harmonic oscillator and the one-loop effective action of scalar QED in a constant field strength-exhibit a natural form of supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Changha Choi , Leon A. Takhtajan

We study the fermionic Schwinger effect in two dimensional de Sitter spacetime. To do so we first present a method to semiclassically compute the number of pairs created per momentum mode for general time dependent fields. In addition the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Clément Stahl , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

In this work an approximate analytic expression for the quantum partition function of the quartic oscillator described by the potential $V(x) = \frac{1}{2} \omega^2 x^2 + g x^4$ is presented. Using a path integral formalism, the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Michel Caffarel

We use Schwinger's proper time method to compute the parity odd contributions to the U(1) current and energy-momentum tensor of an ideal gas of fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of static gauge and gravitational backgrounds. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-24 Juan L. Mañes , Manuel Valle

The functional Schrodinger equation is used to study the quantum collapse of a gravitating, spherical domain wall and a massless scalar field coupled to the metric. The approach includes backreaction of pre-Hawking radiation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Tanmay Vachaspati

We write a computer program that uses the recursion relation to calculate wave function in the harmonic-oscillator potential for specified values of E/hv (with its deviation 0.001) containing only even numbers of v (0,2,4,...). In this…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Omer Sise

We describe a method to compute thermodynamic quantities in the harmonic approximation for identical bosons and fermions in an external confining field. We use the canonical partition function where only energies and their degeneracies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We discuss a general procedure to obtain 1/2 BPS partition functions for generic N=1 quiver gauge theories. These functions count the gauge invariant operators (bosonic and fermionic), charged under all the global symmetries (mesonic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Davide Forcella

We prescribe a formulation of the particle production with real-time Stochastic Quantization. To construct the retarded and the time-ordered propagators we decompose the stochastic variables into positive- and negative-energy parts. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 Kenji Fukushima , Tomoya Hayata

In this work, we develop a highly efficient representation of functions and differential operators based on Fourier analysis. Using this representation, we create a variational hybrid quantum algorithm to solve static, Schr\"odinger-type,…

It is shown that the measurement algebra of Schwinger, a characterization of the properties of Pauli measurements of the first and second kinds, forming the foundation of his formulation of quantum mechanics over the complex field, has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 L. P. Horwitz

The factorization method of Schrodinger shows us how to determine the energy eigenstates without needing to determine the wavefunctions in position or momentum space. A strategy to convert the energy eigenstates to wavefunctions is well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Joseph R. Noonan , Maaz ur Rehman Shah , Luogen Xu , James. K. Freericks

We study massive charged particle production from the vacuum confined between two vibrating plates in the presence of a strong electric field. We analytically derive a formula for the production number based on the perturbation theory in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Hidetoshi Taya

The Schr\"odinger Functional (quantum/lattice field theory with Dirichlet boundary conditions) is a powerful tool in the non-perturbative improvement and for the study of other aspects of lattice QCD. Here we adapt it to improved gluon and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 T. R. Klassen