Stochastic mechanics and Feynman path integrals
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (3) , 1036-1039
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.1036
Abstract
A relation between the kernel of a quantum system in Feynman’s path-integral theory and the transition probability of the corresponding Markov process, with the diffusion coefficient rotated to the imaginary axis, is obtained in the framework of stochastic mechanics. If a stationary state is considered, the relation reduces to a form relating a Euclidean (i.e., imaginary time) quantum theory to a Markov process.Keywords
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