A white noise approach to the Feynman integrand for electrons in random media

DOI10.1063/1.4862744MaRDI QIDQ5414733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Grothaus, F. Riemann, H. P. Suryawan

Publication date 7 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1383

zbMATH Keywords

white noiseBrownian bridgerandom mediaFeynman path integralWick formulaDonsker's delta functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: Using the Feynman path integral representation of quantum mechanics it is possible to derive a model of an electron in a random system containing dense and weakly-coupled scatterers, see [Proc. Phys. Soc. 83, 495-496 (1964)]. The main goal of this paper is to give a mathematically rigorous realization of the corresponding Feynman integrand in dimension one based on the theory of white noise analysis. We refine and apply a Wick formula for the product of a square-integrable function with Donsker's delta functions and use a method of complex scaling. As an essential part of the proof we also establish the existence of the exponential of the self-intersection local times of a one-dimensional Brownian bridge. As result we obtain a neat formula for the propagator with identical start and end point. Thus, we obtain a well-defined mathematical object which is used to calculate the density of states, see e.g. [Proc. Phys. Soc. 83, 495-496 (1964)].

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