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We obtain direct, finite, descriptions of a renormalized quantum mechanical system with no reference to ultraviolet cutoffs and running coupling constants, in both the Hamiltonian and path integral pictures. The path integral description…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Henderson , S. G. Rajeev

We have developed a proper path integral formalism consistent with the deformed version of the quantum mechanics which contains a maximum observable length scale at the order of the Cosmological particle horizon, existing in cosmology.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Souvik Pramanik

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical equation for a spin S=1 particle in 2-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature, hyperbolic plane, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko

In this paper we develop a quantization method for flat compact manifolds based on path integrals. In this method the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions in the complexification of the manifold is used. This space is a reproducing kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Guillermo Capobianco , Walter Reartes

A formulation of quantum mechanics is introduced based on a $2D$-dimensional phase-space wave function $\text{\reflectbox{\text{p}}}\mkern-3mu\text{p}\left(q,p\right)$ which might be computed from the position-space wave function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Tomas Zimmermann

In this work, based on the worldline path integral representation of the vacuum energy in spacetime with a Lorentzian metric, we provide a new but complementary interpretation of the Unruh effect. We perform the quantization of the massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 J. A. Rosabal

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, i.e., the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over all the possible trajectories that would take the system from the initial to its final state of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Charles W. Robson , Yaraslau Tamashevich , Tapio T. Rantala , Marco Ornigotti

In this paper we consider a phase space path integral for general time-dependent quantum operations, not necessarily unitary. We obtain the path integral for a completely positive quantum operation satisfied Lindblad equation (quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Vasily E. Tarasov

We derive the geometric quantization program of symplectic manifolds, in the sense of both Kostant-Souriau and Weinstein, from Feynman's path integral formulation on phase space. The state space we use contains states with negative norm and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Joshua Lackman

The path integral by which quantum field theories are defined is a particular solution of a set of functional differential equations arising from the Schwinger action principle. In fact these equations have a multitude of additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gerald Guralnik , Zachary Guralnik

I assume a universe whereby the speed of light and the planck constant are not constants but instead parameters that vary locally in time-and space. When describing motion, I am able to derive a modified path integral description at the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Roee Amit

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

Quantized space described by time reversal invariant and rotationally invariant noncommutative algebra of canonical type is studied. A particle in uniform field is considered. We find exactly the energy of a particle in uniform field in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-22 Kh. P. Gnatenko , Kh. I. Stakhur , A. V. Kryzhova

The classical spinning particles are considered such that quantization of classical model leads to an irreducible massive representation of the Poincar\'e group. The class of gauge equivalent classical particle world lines is shown to form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 D. S. Kaparulin , S. L. Lyakhovich

Feynman path integrals are now a standard tool in quantum physics and their use in differential geometry leads to new mathematical insights. A logical treatment of quantum phenomena seems to require a sustained mathematical analysis of path…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 B. R. F. Jefferies

The usual formulations of quantum field theory in Minkowski spacetime make crucial use of Poincare symmetry, positivity of total energy, and the existence of a unique, Poincare invariant vacuum state. These and other key features of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-03 Robert M. Wald

Efforts to give an improved mathematical meaning to Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics started soon after its introduction and continue to this day. In the present paper, one common thread of development is followed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 John R. Klauder

From the modern viewpoint and by the geometric method, this paper provides a concise foundation for the quantum theory of massless spin-3/2 field in Minkowski spacetime, which includes both the one-particle's quantum mechanics and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Weigang Qiu , Fei Sun , Hongbao Zhang

Certain natural geometric approximation schemes are developed for Wiener measure on a compact Riemannian manifold. These approximations closely mimic the informal path integral formulas used in the physics literature for representing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Bruce K. Driver