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In this work, we propose a path integral-inspired formalism for computing the quantum thermal expectation values of spin systems, when subject to magnetic fields that can be time-dependent and can accommodate the presence of Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis , Iason Sofos , Joseph Barker

In this document, we present another perspective for the calculus of optimal geometrical primitives and functions according to the centrality requirements. The shortest paths expressed in spatial and temporal domains are studied. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Djemel Ziou

The Feynman path integral for the generalized harmonic oscillator is reviewed, and it is shown that the path integral can be used to find a complete set of wave functions for the oscillator. Harmonic oscillators with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dae-Yup Song

Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics defines the wavefunction associated with a particle as a sum of phase-factors, which are periodic functions of classical action. In the present article, this periodicity is shown to impart the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 S. R. Vatsya

Quantum mechanics in conical space is studied by the path integral method. It is shown that the curvature effect gives rise to an effective potential in the radial path integral. It is further shown that the radial path integral in conical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Akira Inomata , Georg Junker

Higher spin fields in four dimensions, and more generally conformal fields in arbitrary dimensions, can be described by spinning particle models with a gauged SO(N) extended supergravity on the worldline. We consider here the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini , Emanuele Latini

Fourier transforms are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied sciences. We here report classical and quantum optical realizations of the discrete fractional Fourier transform, a generalization of the Fourier transform. In the…

We construct path integral representations for the evolution operator of q-oscillators with root of unity values of q-parameter using Bargmann-Fock representations with commuting and non-commuting variables, the differential calculi being…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 M. Chaichian , A. P. Demichev

We propose in this paper a quantization scheme for real Klein-Gordon field in de Sitter spacetime. Our scheme is generally covariant with the help of vierbein, which is necessary usually for spinor field in curved spacetime. We first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Sze-Shiang Feng

We consider the Green's functions associated to a scalar field propagating on a curved, ultra-static background, in the presence of modified dispersion relations. The usual proper-time deWitt-Schwinger procedure to obtain a series…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimiliano Rinaldi

It is shown that in presence of certain external fields a well defined self-adjoint time operator exists, satisfying the standard canonical commutation relations with the Hamiltonian. Examples include uniform electric and gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 A. M. Schlichtinger , A. Jadczyk

This paper revisits the quantum mechanics for one photon from the modern viewpoint and by the geometrical method. Especially, besides the ordinary (rectangular) momentum representation, we provide an explicit derivation for the other two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yapeng Hu , Weigang Qiu , Hongbao Zhang

We give the full representation theory of the gravitational extended corner symmetry group in two-dimensions. This includes projective representations, which correspond to representations of the quantum corner symmetry group. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Ludovic Varrin

A symmetry analysis is presented for the three-dimensional nonrelativistic motion of charged particles in arbitrary stationary electromagnetic fields. The general form of the Lie point symmetries is found along with the fields that respect…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nikos Kallinikos , Efthymia Meletlidou

In this paper, we develop the formulation of the spin coherent state in real parameterization up to SU(5). The path integral in this representation of coherent state and its classical consequence are investigated. Using the resolution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Khikmat Kh. Muminov , Yousef Yousefi

The effective equation of motion is derived for a scalar field interacting with other fields in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker background space-time. The dissipative behavior reflected in this effective evolution equation is studied both in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos

We discuss massive scalar field with conformal coupling in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Universe of special type with constant electromagnetic field. Treating an external gravitational-electromagnetic background exactly, at first time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , S. D. Odintsov

We consider a simple action for a fractional spin particle and a path integral representation for the propagator is obtained in a gauge such that the constraint embodied in the Lagrangian is not an obstacle. We obtain a propagator for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wellington da Cruz

The nonlinearity of the conformal group is an essential factor that ruins the global conformal invariance for interacting material fields. In this paper we attempt to track such nonlinearity from spacetime transformations to spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Zhi-Peng Wang , X. X. Yi , Hai-Jun Wang

Recent results on the construction and applications of the transmutation (transformation) operators are discussed. Three new representations for solutions of the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation are considered. Due to the fact that…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Sergii M. Torba , Kira V. Khmelnytskaya