College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
AMCS Seminar
Speaker:
Wayne Polyzou
Topic:
"Scattering using real-time path integrals"
Abstract:
I test a method developed by Professor Palle Jorgensen and Iowa Mathematics Ph.D. graduate - Ekatrina Nathanson - that reinterprets the Feynman path integral (which is not an integral in the traditional sense) as the expectation value of a certain functional on a space of continuous paths with respect to a complex probability measure. I demonstrate that this method can be successfully used to compute quantum mechanical scattering cross sections.
Event Date:
February 2, 2018 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
218 MLH
Calendar Category:
Seminar