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### Differentiating Propagator, Green's function, Correlation function, etc

For the following quantities respectively, could someone write down the common definitions, their meaning, the field of study in which one would typically find these under their actual name, and most ...
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### Dirac Delta in definition of Green function

For a inhomogeneous differential equation of the following form $$\hat{L}u(x) = \rho(x) ,$$ the general solution may be written in terms of the Green function, $$u(x) = \int dx' G(x;x')\rho(x'),$$ ...
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### Harmonic Oscillator propagator

I'm reading the book on Quantum Field Theory by Anthony Duncan, and I'm a little lost with something of propagators. He first define the propagator $K(q_f,T;q_i,0)$ as the amplitude of detecting a ...
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### Feynman's derivation of the Schrödinger equation

I'm reading the following article: Feynman's derivation of the Schrödinger equation In this article, the autor claims that Feynman derivation of the Schrödinger equation was a key aspect of the ...
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I have the propagator for the harmonic oscillator. $$K(x_f,x_0,t)=\sqrt{\frac{m\omega}{2 \pi \hbar \sin{wt}}}\exp\left(\frac{i}{\hbar}\frac{m\omega}{2 \sin{\omega t}}((x_0^2+x_f^2)\cos\omega t-... 2answers 210 views ### Is the path integral amplitude a wavefunction? The probability amplitude for a particle to travel from \mathbf{x}_i  to \mathbf{x}_f in a time t is given by the path integral$$ \langle \mathbf{x}_f | e^{-iHt} |\mathbf{x}_i \rangle = \int \...
The hamiltonian form of the path integral for the time evolution of a single particle in one dimension (in non-relativistic quantum mechanics) is: \langle x|\hat U(t_2,t_1)|x'\rangle=\int \mathcal ...
Consider the time evolution operator $U(t_f, t_i)$ that controls the evolution of a wave function according to $|\psi(t_f \rangle = U(t_f, t_i) | \psi(t_i) \rangle$. As I understand it, the Born ...