Sep 7, 2015
Free particle propagator
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Question: Free particle propagator ([1] pr. 2.31)
Derive the free particle propagator in one and three dimensions.
Answer
I found the description in the text confusing, so let’s start from scratch with the definition of the propagator. This is the kernel of the spatial convolution integral that encodes time evolution, and can be expressed…
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