Existence of short-time approximations of any polynomial order for the computation of density matrices by path integral methods

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Predescu, Cristian ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS;

DENSITY MATRICES; FEYNMAN-KAC FORMULA; FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS; PATH INTEGRAL METHODS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

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