On the path integral quantization of the damped harmonic oscillator
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 25 (6) , 1820-1822
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.526361
Abstract
A time-dependent canonical transformation is performed in the path integral expression of the propagator for a damped harmonic oscillator to reduce it to a harmonic oscillator with modified frequency. The transformation is carried out in a properly time-symmetrized expression of the lattice space path integral by making expansions about the midpoint of each time interval.Keywords
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