Fractional quantum mechanics and Lévy path integrals

Bradley Thomas Yale

Chandra Halim, Muhammad Farchani Rosyid

The implementation of Lévy path integral generated by Lévy stochastic process on fractional Schrödinger equation has been investigated in the framework of fractional quantum mechanics. As the comparison, the implementation of Feynmann path integral generated by Wiener stochastic process on Schrödinger equation also has been investigated in the framework of standard quantum mechanics. There are two stochastic processes. There are Lévy stochastic and Wiener stochastic process. Both of them are able to produce fractal. In fractal’s concept, there is a value known as fractal dimension. The implementation of fractal dimension is the diffusion equation obtained by using Fokker Planck equation. In this paper, Lévy and Wiener fractal dimension have been obtained. There are for Lévy and 2 for Wiener/Brown fractal dimension. Fractional quantum mechanics is generalization of standard quantum mechanics. A fractional quantum mechanics state is represented by wave function from fractional Schrödinger equation. Fractional Schrödinger equation is obtained by using kernel of Lévy path integral generated by Lévy stochastic process. Otherwise, standard quantum mechanics state is represented by wave function from standard Schrödinger equation. Standard Schrödinger equation is obtained by using kernel of Feynmann path integral generated by Wiener/Brown stochastic process. Both Lévy and Feynmann Kernel have been investigated and the outputs are the Fourier Integral momentum phase of those kernels. We find that the forms of those kernels have similiraty. Therefore, we obtain Schrödinger equation from Lévy and Feynmann Kernel and also the comparison of Lévy energy in fractional quantum mechanics and particle energy in standard quantum mechanics.

E. Ahmed

Nick Laskin

A new application of a fractal concept to quantum physics has been developed. The fractional path integrals over the paths of the Levy flights are defined. It is shown that if fractality of the Brownian trajectories leads to standard quantum mechanics, then the fractality of the Levy paths leads to fractional quantum mechanics. The fractional quantum mechanics has been developed via the new fractional path integrals approach. A fractional generalization of the Schrodinger equation has been discovered. The new relationship between the energy and the momentum of the nonrelativistic fractional quantum-mechanical particle has been established, and the Levy wave packet has been introduced into quantum mechanics. The equation for the fractional plane wave function has been found. We have derived a free particle quantum-mechanical kernel using Fox's H-function. A fractional generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation has been found. As physical applications of the fractional quantum mechanics we have studied a free particle in a square infinite potential well, the fractional "Bohr atom" and have developed a new fractional approach to the QCD problem of quarkonium. We also discuss the relationships between fractional and the well-known Feynman path integral approaches to quantum mechanics. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.

Nick Laskin

A path integral approach to quantum physics has been developed. Fractional path integrals over the paths of the Levy flights are defined. It is shown that if the fractality of the Brownian trajectories leads to standard quantum and statistical mechanics, then the fractality of the Levy paths leads to fractional quantum mechanics and fractional statistical mechanics. The fractional quantum and statistical mechanics have been developed via our fractional path integral approach. A fractional generalization of the Schrodinger equation has been found. A relationship between the energy and the momentum of the nonrelativistic quantum-mechanical particle has been established. The equation for the fractional plane wave function has been obtained. We have derived a free particle quantum-mechanical kernel using Fox's H function. A fractional generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation has been established. Fractional statistical mechanics has been developed via the path integral approach. A fractional generalization of the motion equation for the density matrix has been found. The density matrix of a free particle has been expressed in terms of the Fox's H function. We also discuss the relationships between fractional and the well-known Feynman path integral approaches to quantum and statistical mechanics.

Daniel P. Arovas