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Modern Physics Letters B

A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR EVALUATING FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRALS

Richard J. Creswick

Published May 20, 1995• 4 citations
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Abstract

A method for numerically evaluating Feynman path integrals based on the density of actions is presented. The method is illustrated by calculating the propagator for the free particle and the simple harmonic oscillator.
DOI
10.1142/s0217984995000632

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