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Finite Temperature Path Integral

Finite Temperature Path Integral is a path integral formulation that extends quantum mechanical and quantum field theoretical descriptions to thermal equilibrium systems by employing imaginary time formalism with periodic or antiperiodic boundary conditions tied to the inverse temperature, thereby enabling the computation of partition functions and thermal expectation values through functional integration over closed trajectories in a Euclidean time domain of finite extent.

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Variants

Imaginary Time Path IntegralMatsubara Path Integral

Parents

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155

Continuous quantum phase transitions

S. L. Sondhi, S. M. Girvin, John P. Carini et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1997 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Quantum Brownian motion in a general environment: Exact master equation with nonlocal dissipation and colored noise

B. L. Hu, Juan Pablo Paz, Yuhong Zhang · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1992 · 1K citations

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Path-integral computation of superfluid densities

E. L. Pollock, D. M. Ceperley · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1987 · 667 citations

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A Monte Carlo study of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature

Larry McLerran, Benjamin Svetitsky · Physics Letters B · 1981 · 487 citations · Full text

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Variational calculation of the dynamics of a two level system interacting with a bath

R. Silbey, R. Adron Harris · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1984 · 472 citations

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  1. NM
    Nancy Makri

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 158 citations

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  2. DM
    David M. Ceperley

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 251 citations

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  3. DL
    David L. Freeman

    University of Rhode Island, United States

    4 publications · 247 citations

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  4. JD
    J. D. Doll

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 217 citations

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  5. RG
    R. Giachetti

    University of Florence, Italy

    3 publications · 279 citations

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Institutions

159

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    418 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    267 citations

  5. University of Wuppertal

    Wuppertal, Germany

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    191 citations

  6. University of Rhode Island

    Kingston, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    247 citations

  7. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    290 citations

  8. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    197 citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    20 publications · 2K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Nuclear Physics B

    11 publications · 529 citations

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  5. Physics Letters B

    8 publications · 658 citations

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