Origin of complex quantum amplitudes and Feynman's rules

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Goyal, Philip ^a   Knuth, Kevin H ^b   Skilling, John ^c  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Maximum Entropy Data Consultants Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES; COMPLEX ARITHMETIC; COMPLEX NATURE; COMPLEX NUMBER; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; PRODUCT RULE; QUANTUM AMPLITUDE; REAL NUMBER; REAL-VALUED FUNCTIONS; SYMMETRY CONDITIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 76649093927     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.022109     Document Type: Article

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