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Functional Integrals for Spin

Kenneth A. Johnson
- 15 May 1989 - 
- Vol. 192, Iss: 1, pp 104-118
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In this paper, a path integral representation for spin amplitudes is constructed for the unitary rotation matrices and the appropriate set of classical canonical variables and their quantum counterparts are identified, which can be extended to more general systems by using the three-dimensional unitary group.
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This article is published in Annals of Physics.The article was published on 1989-05-15. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Path integral formulation & Unitary group.

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Semi-classical transport theory for non-Abelian plasmas

TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-classical transport theory for non-Abelian plasmas based on a classical picture of coloured point particles is presented, which permits the integrating-out of fluctuations in a systematic manner.
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Classical strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. I. Model and molecular dynamics simulations

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for the description of strongly interacting quarks and gluon quasiparticles at T=(1-3)T{sub c} as a classical and nonrelativistic colored Coulomb gas was proposed.
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Equivariant Localization of Path Integrals

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed review of the relevant mathematical background of equivariant cohomology and the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem for quantization of Feynman path integrals is presented.
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Coherent states, Path integral, and Semiclassical approximation

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that path integral formulas for SU(2) and SU(1,1) are WKB exact, if it is started from the trace of e−iTĤ, where H is given by a linear combination of generators.
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Random walks of partons in SU(N(c)) and classical representations of color charges in QCD at small x

TL;DR: In this article, a random walk of partons in the space of the Casimir operators of the color group is formulated as a path integral over the color sources with an exponential weight whose argument is the quadratic Casimir operator.
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A path integral to quantize spin

TL;DR: In this article, a model for a classical spinning particle, characterized by spin magnitude, arbitrary but fixed, and continuously varying direction, was presented, and the path integral for the model was formulated.