Path integration for velocity-dependent potentials |
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Authors: | Bruce Nelson Benny Sheeks |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics, University of Utah, 84112 Salt Lake City, UT, USA;(2) Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02173 Lexington, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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