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The in-in path integral of a scalar field propagating in a fixed background is formulated in a suitable function space. The free kinetic operator, whose inverse gives the propagators of the in-in perturbation theory, becomes essentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 Ali Kaya

The theme of doing quantum mechanics on all abelian groups goes back to Schwinger and Weyl. If the group is a vector space of finite dimension over a non-archimedean locally compact division ring, it is of interest to examine the structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 V. S. Varadarajan

We analyze the worldline formalism in the presence of a gravitational background. In the worldline formalism a path integral is used to quantize the worldline coordinates of the particles. Contrary to the simpler cases of scalar and vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Andrea Zirotti

A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu

Although the path-integral formalism is known to be equivalent to conventional quantum mechanics, it is not generally obvious how to implement path-based calculations for multi-qubit entangled states. Whether one takes the formal view of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Narayani Tyagi , Ken Wharton

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

The cvariant path integral quantization of the theory of the scalar and spinor particles interacting through the abelian and non-Abelian Chern-Simons gauge fields is carried out and is shown to be mathematically ill defined due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 V. Ya. Fainberg , N. K. Pak , M. S. Shikakhwa

The simple physics of a free particle reveals important features of the path-integral formulation of relativistic quantum theories. The exact quantum-mechanical propagator is calculated here for a particle described by the simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ian H. Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen

In this article we define Berezin-type and Odzijewicz-type quantizations on compact smooth manifolds. The method is we embed the smooth manifold of real dimension $n$ into ${\mathbb C}P^n$ and induce the quantizations from there. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Rukmini Dey

An elementary introduction is provided to the phase space quantization method of Moyal and Wigner. We generalize the method so that it applies to 2-dimensional surfaces, where it has an interesting connection with quantum holography. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 George Chapline , Alex Granik

We derive a semi-analytical form for the Wigner transform for the canonical density operator of a discrete system coupled to a harmonic bath based on the path integral expansion of the Boltzmann factor. The introduction of this simple and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrés Montoya-Castillo , David R. Reichman

The path integral representation of the transition amplitude for a particle moving in curved space has presented unexpected challenges since the introduction of path integrals by Feynman fifty years ago. In this paper we discuss and review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Olindo Corradini

The canonical operator quantisation formulation corresponding to the Klauder-Daubechies construction of the phase space path integral is considered. This formulation is explicitly applied and solved in the case of the harmonic oscillator,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Govaerts , Calvin Matondo Bwayi , Olivier Mattelaer

In quantum field theory, the in and out states can be related to the full Hamiltonian by the $i\epsilon$ prescription. A Wick rotation can further bring the correlation functions to Euclidean spacetime where the integrals are better…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 Duc Huy Tran , Yi Wang , Juanyi Yang , Yuhang Zhu

A specific class of explicitly time-dependent potentials is studied by means of path integrals. For this purpose a general formalism to treat explicitly time-dependent space-time transformations in path integrals is sketched. An explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Christian Grosche

L\'{e}vy flights can be described using a Fokker-Planck equation which involves a fractional derivative operator in the position co-ordinate. Such an operator has its natural expression in the Fourier domain. Starting with this, we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-07 Deepika Janakiraman , K. L. Sebastian

The N=2 spinning particle action describes the propagation of antisymmetric tensor fields, including vector fields as a special case. In this paper we study the path integral quantization on a one-dimensional torus of the N=2 spinning…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Paolo Benincasa , Simone Giombi

We study the path integral formulation of Friedmann universe filled with a massless scalar field in loop quantum cosmology. All the isotropic models of $k=0,+1,-1$ are considered. To construct the path integrals in the timeless framework, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 Haiyun Huang , Yongge Ma , Li Qin

A theorem that constructs a path integral solution for general second order partial differential equations is specialized to obtain path integrals that are solutions of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic linear second order partial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 J. LaChapelle

We develop a path integrals approach for analyzing stationary light propagation appropriate for photonic crystals. The hermitian form of the stationary Maxwell equations is transformed into a quantum mechanical problem of a spin 1 particle…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-01 Yair Dimant , Shimon Levit