Unified path integral treatment for generalized Hulthén and Woods-Saxon potentials

A rigorous path integral discussion of the s states for a diatomic molecule potential with varying shape, which generalizes the Hulthén and the Woods-Saxon potentials, is presented. A closed form of the Green’s function is obtained for different shapes of this potential. For λ ? 1 and (1/η)lnλ<r<∞, the energy spectrum and the normalized wave functions of the bound states are derived. When the deformation parameter λ is 0 < λ < 1 or λ < 0, it is found that the quantization conditions are transcendental equations that require numerical solutions. The special cases corresponding to a screened potential (λ = 1), the deformed Woods-Saxon potential (λ = q e^ηR), and the Morse potential (λ = 0) are likewise treated.     

Path integral treatment of a noncentral potential

In the path integral approach, the Green's function relative to a three-dimensional potential is obtained, in the parabolic rotational system. The energy spectrum and the wave functions of the bound and scattering states are deduced. Particular cases of this potential are also considered.     

Path integral for Koenigs spaces

I discuss a path-integral approach for the quantum motion on two-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short “Koenigs spaces”. Their construction is simple: one takes a Hamiltonian from a two-dimensional flat space and divides it by a two-dimensional superintegrable potential. These superintegrable potentials are the isotropic singular oscillator, the Holt potential, and the Coulomb potential. In all cases, a nontrivial space of nonconstant curvature is generated. We can study free motion and the motion with an additional superintegrable potential. For possible bound-state solutions, we find in all three cases an equation of the eighth order in the energy E. The special cases of the Darboux spaces are easily recovered by choosing the parameters accordingly. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Path integral treatment of a noncentral electric potential

We present a rigorous path integral treatment of a dynamical system in the axially symmetric potential $V(r,\theta ) = V(r) + \tfrac{1} {{r^2 }}V(\theta ) $ . It is shown that the Green’s function can be calculated in spherical coordinate system for $V(\theta ) = \frac{{\hbar ^2 }} {{2\mu }}\frac{{\gamma + \beta \sin ^2 \theta + \alpha \sin ^4 \theta }} {{\sin ^2 \theta \cos ^2 \theta }} $ . As an illustration, we have chosen the example of a spherical harmonic oscillator and also the Coulomb potential for the radial dependence of this noncentral potential. The ring-shaped oscillator and the Hartmann ring-shaped potential are considered as particular cases. When α = β = γ = 0, the discrete energy spectrum, the normalized wave function of the spherical oscillator and the Coulomb potential of a hydrogen-like ion, for a state of orbital quantum number l ≥ 0, are recovered.     

Path integral treatment of pair creation by the step potential

In this paper, we use a formalism including supersymmetry to calculate the Green function for the spinning relativistic particle in the presence of the step potential. This is an example of one of simple but fundamental inhomogeneous fields. We obtain an explicit expression of the Polyakov spin factor and the presence of the step gives rise to a correction of a delta potential in the spin–field coupling. The calculation is done using the perturbation technique. The corresponding positive- and negative-energy states are obtained. This Green function is used to evaluate a pair-creation probability in this potential. PACS  03.65.-w; 03.30.+p; 03.65.Ca; 03.65.Db; 12.38.Cy     

Path integration for velocity-dependent potentials

We extent the prodistribution definition of path integrals to include Lagrangians with velocity-dependent potentials. We use Cameron-Martin transformations to evaluate a large part of a path integral exactly and give techniques for evaluating the remaining terms of the semi-classical expansion of the path integral. The Fredholm determinants, associated with these transformations, are evaluated explicitly in terms of Jacobi matrices defined by the classical system.     

Path integral methods for inelastic scattering

Corrections to the primitive semi-classical amplitude for multiple inelastic scattering are obtained from a path integral formulation of scattering theory. The path integrals are calculated by making an expansion about a classical orbit describing elastic scattering. Terms are collected to give a series in inverse powers of the reduced mass m of relative motion of the target and projectile. The leading term is the primitive semi-classical amplitude for multiple excitation and explicit formulae are given for the corrections of order $\text{1}\text{m}$. These are calculated in detail for a one-dimensional model. It is shown that some, but not all, of the corrections can be included by evaluating the primitive amplitude with a symmetrized orbit.     

Path integral solutions for non-Markovian processes

For a nonlinear stochastic flow driven by Markovian or non-Markovian colored noise (t) we present the path integral solution for the single-event probabilityp(x,t). The solution has the structure of a complex-valued double path integral. Explicit formulas for the action functional, i.e., the non-Markovian Onsager-Machlup functional, are derived for the case that (t) is characterized by a stationary Gaussian process. Moreover, we derive explicit results for (generalized) Poissonian colored shot noise (t). The use of the path integral solution is elucidated by a weak noise analysis of the WKB-type. As a simple application, we consider stochastic bistability driven by colored noise with an extremely long correlation time.     

Path integral for one-dimensional Dirac oscillator

In this paper we derive the propagator for the one-dimensional Dirac oscillator using the supersymmetric path integral formalism. The spin calculations are carried out with the help of the technique of Grassmann functional integration. The Green function is exactly evaluated. The Polyakov spin factor is explicitly derived and the energy spectrum and the corresponding wave functions are deduced. PACS 03.65.Ca; 03.65.Db; 03.65.Ge; 03.65.Pm     

A unified treatment of the lattice Green function,generalized Watson integral and associated logarithmic integral for the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice

Using multinomial expansion theorems, a unified approximation for the lattice Green function, generalized Watson integral and associated logarithmic integral for the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice is presented. The validity of this approximation is tested by other calculation methods. The approximate formulas derived are satisfactory to all other approximations and are a most suitable solution for the study of related physical properties of solids. Some examples of the effectiveness of this methodology are presented.     

The generalized Jeffreys-Born integral

The Jeffreys-Born integral in the WKB approximation is generalized to include the Coulomb potential. The Weyl-transform is used to obtain phase functions for potentials frequently used in fitting modified Coulomb scattering data.     

Non-degenerate single-particle energies in the Ginocchio model

A one-body operator expressing the breaking of the degeneracy of the single-nucleon energies is added to the pairing interaction of the Ginocchio model. This operator couples states inside the model's SD space to states outside it. The influence of this coupling on the effective interaction in the SD space and the possibility of expressing the results in terms of renormalization of parameters in the fermion hamiltonian or the IBM are investigated. The effective interaction is found to be almost diagonal in seniority, while splitting the previously-degenerate seniority multiplets. Appropriately renormalized Ginocchio and IBM hamiltonians can approximately reproduce the results, but fermion-number dependence of the hamiltonian parameters and explicit three-body interactions are needed to reproduce the computed effects exactly.     

Path integral treatment for relativistic particles in external fields and quantized plane wave

The dynamics of relativistic particles of spin 0 and 1/2, interacting with an external electromagnetic field and a quantized plane wave, is studied using the path integral framework. We take advantage of the existing properties of the interaction to introduce a delta functional in order to calculate Green's functions. This simply reduces the problem to two coupled oscillators. The energy spectrum and wave functions are calculated for the spin 0 case and the analogy with Jaynes‐Cummings model is made to derive the energy spectrum for the spin 1/2 case.     

Path integral and operator approach for the Podolsky-Schwinger model

We study the role of the thachyonic excitation which emerges from the quantum electrodynamics in two dimensions with Podolsky term. The quantization is performed by using path integral framework and the operator approach. Permanent address: Departmento de Campos e Partículas, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150, 22290 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil     

Path integral for the relativistic particle and harmonic oscillators

The action for a massive particle in special relativity can be expressed as the invariant proper length between the end points. In principle, one should be able to construct the quantum theory for such a system by the path integral approach using this action. On the other hand, it is well known that the dynamics of a free, relativistic, spinless massive particle is best described by a scalar field which is equivalent to an infinite number of harmonic oscillators. We clarify the connection between these two—apparently dissimilar—approaches by obtaining the Green function for the system of oscillators from that of the relativistic particle. This is achieved through defining the path integral for a relativistic particle rigorously by two separate approaches. This analysis also shows a connection between square root Lagrangians and the system of harmonic oscillators which is likely to be of value in more general context.