Phase-Space Path Integrals in Terms of a Phase-Space Distribution Function
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (5) , 503-506
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.503
Abstract
A new formalism of the phase-space path integral based on our previously proposed phase-space distribution function is presented. A semiclassical theory for this path integral is also developed. It is shown that the amplitude factor associated with the semiclassical "kernel" is always finite and closely related to Greene's residue, which was devised to predict the occurrence of global chaos in classical systems.Keywords
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