An Elementary Derivation of the Harmonic Oscillator Propagator

Details An Elementary Derivation of the Harmonic Oscillator Propagator An Elementary Derivation of the Harmonic Oscillator Propagator

2004-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0402069v1

Am. J. Phys. 72, 1258 (2004).

Physics

General Physics

1 page, RevTex4

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.1715108

The harmonic oscillator propagator is found straightforwardly from the free particle propagator, within the imaginary-time Feynman path integral formalism. The derivation presented here is extremely simple, requiring only elementary mathematical manipulations and no clever use of Hermite polynomials, annihilation & creation operators, cumbersome determinant evaluations or any kind of involved algebra.

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