Jaggedness of path integral trajectories

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2005.07.057MaRDI QIDQ936961zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksandar Bogojević, Antun Balaž, Aleksandar Belić

Publication date 20 August 2008

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509266

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carloself-similaritypath integralquantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: We define and investigate the properties of the jaggedness of path integral trajectories. The new quantity is shown to be scale invariant and to satisfy a self-averaging property. Jaggedness allows for a classification of path integral trajectories according to their relevance. We show that in the continuum limit the only paths that are not of measure zero are those with jaggedness 1/2, i.e. belonging to the same equivalence class as random walks. The set of relevant trajectories is thus narrowed down to a specific subset of non-differentiable paths. For numerical calculations, we show that jaggedness represents an important practical criterion for assessing the quality of trajectory generating algorithms. We illustrate the obtained results with Monte Carlo simulations of several different models.

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