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arxiv: quant-ph/9708034 · v1 · submitted 1997-08-21 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat

Feynman Integrals with Absorbing Boundaries

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keywords trajectoriesabsorbingformulationsurvivingabsorbedabsorptionassumptionboundaries
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We propose a formulation of an absorbing boundary for a quantum particle. The formulation is based on a Feynman-type integral over trajectories that are confined to the non-absorbing region. Trajectories that reach the absorbing wall are discounted from the population of the surviving trajectories with a certain weighting factor. Under the assumption that absorbed trajectories do not interfere with the surviving trajectories, we obtain a time dependent absorption law. Two examples are worked out.

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