Path-integral formulation of stochastic processes for exclusive particle systems

Generating function, path integral representation, and equivalence for stochastic exclusive particle systems.

We present the path integral representation of the generating function for classical exclusive particle systems. By introducing hard-core bosonic creation and annihilation operators and appropriate commutation relations, we construct the Fock space structure. Using the state vector, the generating function is defined and the master equation of the system is transformed into the equation for the...

Dynamics of interacting particle systems : stochastic process and field theory

We present an approach to the dynamics of interacting particle systems, which allows to derive path integral formulas from purely stochastic considerations. We show that the resulting field theory is a dual version of the standard theory of Doi and Peliti. This clarify both the origin of the Cole-Hopf map between the two approaches and the occurence of imaginary noises in effective Langevin equ...

Feyman path integral via jump-type Markov processes for singular potentials, many particle systems and curvilinear state spaces

Dirac Equation Path Integral: Interpreting the Grassmann Variables (*)(**)

S u m m a r y . A functional integral for a particle obeying the Dirac equation is presented. In earlier work (reviewed here) we showed that 1) such a particle could be described as a massless particle randomly flipping direction and helicity at a complex rate i/m and 2) its between-flips propagation could be written as a sum over paths for a Grassmann variable valued stochastic process. We her...

Linear quantum state diffusion for non-Markovian open quantum systems

We demonstrate the relevance of complex Gaussian stochastic processes to the stochastic state vector description of non-Markovian open quantum systems. These processes express the general Feynman-Vernon path integral propagator for open quantum systems as the classical ensemble average over stochastic pure state propagators in a natural way. They are the coloured generalization of complex Wiene...