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In the present manuscript, we employ the Feynman path integral method to derive the propagator in one-dimensional Wigner-Dunkl quantum mechanics. To verify our findings we calculate the propagator associated with the free particle and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu , B. Khantoul

We present a numerical path-integral iteration scheme for the low dimensional reduced density matrix of a time-dependent quantum dissipative system. Our approach simultaneously accounts for the combined action of a microscopically modelled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 A. M. Barth , A. Vagov , V. M. Axt

This book provides an introduction to path integral methods and their application to modeling atomistic processes. The book covers both the foundational theory and recently developed simulation techniques. The text provides a self-contained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Michele Ceriotti , David E. Manolopoulos , Thomas E. Markland , Mariana Rossi

An analysis of classical mechanics in a complex extension of phase space shows that a particle in such a space can behave in a way redolant of quantum mechanics; additional degrees of freedom permit 'tunnelling' without recourse to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Ray J. Rivers

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 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

In the probability representation of the standard quantum mechanics, the explicit expression (and its quasiclassical van-Fleck approximation) for the ``classical'' propagator (transition probability distribution), which completely describes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olga Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

The amplitude and probability of quantum transitions are represented as a path integrals in energy state space of the investigated multi-level quantum system. Using this approach we consider rotational dynamics of nitrogen molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Alexander Biryukov , Mark Shleenkov

We derive the first order canonical formulation of cosmological perturbation theory in a Universe filled by a few scalar fields. This theory is quantized via well-defined Hamiltonian path integral. The propagator which describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Anderegg , V. Mukhanov

Representations of propagators by means of path integrals over velocities are discussed both in nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is shown that all the propagators can only be expressed through bosonic path integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Gitman , Sh. M. Shvartsman

We formulate the coherent state path integral on a two dimensional noncommutative plane using the fact that noncommuative quantum mechanics can be viewed as a quantum system on the Hilbert space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators acting on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Frederik G Scholtz

The present paper is a short review of different path integral representations of the partition function of quantum spin systems. To begin with, I consider coherent states for SU(2) algebra. Different parameterizations of the coherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-20 Naoum Karchev

This paper describes a path integral formulation of the free energy principle. The ensuing account expresses the paths or trajectories that a particle takes as it evolves over time. The main results are a method or principle of least action…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-25 Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Dalton A. R. Sakthivadivel , Conor Heins , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Maxwell Ramstead , Thomas Parr

Introducing a perturbative definition, phase space path integrals can be calculated without slicing. This leads to a short-time expansion of the quantum-mechanical path amplitude, or a high-temperature expansion of the unnormalized density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 Michael Bachmann

Quantum dissipation in thermal environment is investigated, using the path integral approach. The reduced density matrix of the harmonic oscillator system coupled to thermal bath of oscillators is derived for arbitrary spectrum of bath…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

In the framework of 't Hooft's quantization proposal, we show how to obtain from the composite system of two classical Bateman's oscillators a quantum isotonic oscillator. In a specific range of parameters, such a system can be interpreted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Blasone , P. Jizba , F. Scardigli , G. Vitiello

For the case of reduction onto the non-zero momentum level, in the problem of the path integral quantization of a scalar particle motion on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with the given free isometric action of the compact semisimle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 S. N. Storchak

Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

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

A review of fundamentals and physical applications of fractional quantum mechanics has been presented. Fundamentals cover fractional Schr\"odinger equation, quantum Riesz fractional derivative, path integral approach to fractional quantum…

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