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Path integrals provide in many instances an elegant complementary description of quantum mechanics and also for the quantization of fields, which we will study from a canonical point of view in Chapter 17 and following chapters. Path integrals are particularly popular in scattering theory, because the techniques of path integration were originally developed in the study of time evolution operators. Other areas where path integrals are used include statistical physics and the description of dissipative systems.
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Dick, R. (2016). Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics. In: Advanced Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25675-7_14
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