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Imaginary Time Formalism

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The aim of this next chapter is to apply the path-integral approach to the quantum harmonic oscillator in the context of quantum statistical mechanics.

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    Peter Millington

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Millington, P. (2014). Imaginary Time Formalism. In: Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8_6

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