Quantum Operator Ordering and the Feynman Formulation
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 12 (8), 1471-1474
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1665758
Abstract
A functional integral representation for the quantum Hamiltonian propagator is obtained from the Feynman formulation. It is shown that operator ordering arbitrariness in the quantum Hamiltonian is directly related to arbitrariness in the algorithmic definition of the functional integral. Examples are cited which demonstrate this fact.Keywords
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