A REFORMULATION OF THE FEYNMAN CHESSBOARD MODEL

被引:26
作者
ORD, GN
机构
[1] Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B9, Ontario
关键词
FEYNMAN CHESSBOARD MODEL; QUANTUM STOCHASTICS; ISING CHAINS;
D O I
10.1007/BF01060086
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The chessboard model is reviewed and reformulated as a four-state process. In this formulation both the Dirac propagator of the chessboard model and the partition function of the associated Ising chain are observed to be projections of a single matrix of partition functions onto two orthogonal eigenspaces. This helps clarify the role played by the phase associated with Feynman paths in this model.
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