On the effective potential of Duru-Kleinert path integrals

DOI10.1063/1.4989986zbMATH Open1366.81218arXiv1706.04738OpenAlexW3105387264MaRDI QIDQ5282848FDOQ5282848

Authors: Seiji Sakoda 

Publication date: 17 July 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new method to evaluate the effective potential in the path integral for the fixed-energy amplitude as well as for the pseudotime evolution kernel in the formalism by Duru and Kleinert. Restriction to the postpoint or the prepoint prescriptions in formulating time sliced path integrals is avoided by leaving off the use of expectation values for correction terms. This enables us to consider an arbitrary ordering prescription and to examine the ordering dependence of the effective potential. To investigate parameter dependences, we introduce the ordering parameter $alpha$ in addition to the splitting parameter $lambda$ in the formulation of the time sliced path integral. The resulting path integrals are found to be independent of the ordering parameter although the explicit dependence, given by a contribution proportional to $(1-2lambda{)}^2$, on the splitting parameter remains. As an application, we check the relationship between path integrals for the radial oscillator and the radial Coulomb system in arbitrary dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04738

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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