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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

A path-integral approach for the computation of quantum-mechanical propagators and energy Green's functions is presented. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to singular interactions, with particular emphasis on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

In this paper the Feynman path integral technique is applied to two-dimensional spaces of non-constant curvature: these spaces are called Darboux spaces $\DI$--$\DIV$. We start each consideration in terms of the metric and then analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche

We propose a geometric approach to construct the Cauchy evolution operator for the Lorentzian Dirac operator on Cauchy-compact globally hyperbolic 4-manifolds. We realise the Cauchy evolution operator as the sum of two invariantly defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Matteo Capoferri , Simone Murro

These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly first-year graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard MacKenzie

Position-deformed Heisenberg algebra with maximal length uncertainty has recently been proven to induce strong quantum gravitational fields at the Planck scale (2022 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.55 105303). In the present study, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Latévi M. Lawson , Prince K. Osei , Komi Sodoga , Fred Soglohu

We consider the quadratic supersymmetric aspect of the Darboux transformation for the Green functions of the one-dimensional Dirac equation with a generalized form of the potential. We obtain the relation between the initial and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-09-11 Ekaterina Pozdeeva

We study conformations of the Gaussian polymer chains in d-dimensional space in the presence of an external field with the harmonic potential. We apply a path integral approach to derive an explicit expression for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-28 G V Paradezhenko , C Gascoigne , N V Brilliantov

An efficient solution of the Dirac Hamiltonian flow equations has been proposed through a novel expandsion with the inverse of the Dirac effective mass. The efficiency and accuracy of this new expansion have been demonstrated by reducing a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-31 Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

The essence of the path integral method in quantum physics can be expressed in terms of two relations between unitary propagators, describing perturbations of the underlying system. They inherit the causal structure of the theory and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Detlev Buchholz , Klaus Fredenhagen

Relativistic particles with higher spin can be described in first quantization using actions with local supersymmetry on the worldline. First, we present a brief review of these actions and their use in first quantization. In a Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Roberto Bonezzi , Olindo Corradini , Emanuele Latini

Discretizations of the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the quantum mechanical density matrix are investigated. Each infinite-dimensional path integral is approximated by a Riemann integral over a finite-dimensional function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bond , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

We have recently studied a simplified version of the path integral for a particle on a sphere, and more generally on maximally symmetric spaces, and proved that Riemann normal coordinates allow the use of a quadratic kinetic term in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini

We consider the optical and transport properties in a model two-dimensional Hamiltonian which describes the merging of two Dirac points. At low energy, in the presence of an energy gap parameter $\Delta$, there are two distinct Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

When quantum fields are coupled to gravitational fields, spontaneous particle creation may occur similarly to when they are coupled to external electromagnetic fields. Gravitational fields can be incorporated as background spacetime if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 C. Koke , C. Noh , D. G. Angelakis

In this paper, a complete covariant quantization of generalized electrodynamics is shown through the path integral approach. To this goal, we first studied the hamiltonian structure of system following Dirac's methodology and, then, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Rodrigo Bufalo , Bruto Max Pimentel , German Enrique Ramos Zambrano

Explicit path integration is carried out for the Green's functions of special relativistic harmonic oscillators in (1+1)- and (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time modeled by a Klein-Gordon particle in the universal covering space-time of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. T. Chefrour , F. Benamira , L. Guechi

In this paper path integration in two- and three-dimensional spaces of constant curvature is discussed: i.e.\ the flat spaces $\bbbr^2$ and $\bbbr^3$, the two- and three-dimensional sphere and the two- and three dimensional pseudosphere.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Christian Grosche

We present an explicit path integral evaluation of the free Hamiltonian propagator on the (D-1)-dimensional pseudosphere, in the horicyclic coordinates, using the integral equation method. This method consists in deriving an integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans J. Wospakrik

The field equation for a spin 1/2 massive charged particle propagating in spacetimes that are the direct product of 2-dimensional spaces is separated. Moreover, we use this result to attain the separability of the Dirac equation in some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Joás Venâncio , Carlos Batista