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21 August 2015

Using torus gauge fixing, Hahn in 2008 wrote down an expression for a Chern-Simons path integral to compute the Wilson Loop observable, using the Chern-Simons action \(S_{CS}^\kappa\), \(\kappa\) is some parameter. Instead of making sense of the path...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical physics)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,307 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2020

Path integral Monte Carlo and closure computations are utilized to study real space triplet correlations in the quantum hard-sphere system. The conditions cover from the normal fluid phase to the solid phases face-centered cubic (FCC) and cI16 (de Br...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,411 Views
8 Pages

Assessment of Open-path Spectrometer Accuracy at Low Path-integrated Methane Concentrations

  • Zachary J. DeBruyn,
  • Claudia Wagner-Riddle and
  • Andrew VanderZaag

10 February 2020

The accurate measurement of greenhouse gas emissions is a challenge for atmospheric science. Long-range open-path sensors are flexible enough to be applied to a variety of complex emission sources, and single devices are often used to measure both hi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Atmosphere: Air Quality)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,308 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2021

In digital transformation and development, supply chain integration has become a key strategy to improve supply chain synergy efficiency and enhance enterprise competitiveness. Based on the survey data of 185 manufacturing enterprises in Tianjin, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinventing Processes for Sustainability via Process Intensification and Integration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,749 Views
25 Pages

Identifying Core Regions for Path Integration on Medial Entorhinal Cortex of Hippocampal Formation

  • Ayako Fukawa,
  • Takahiro Aizawa,
  • Hiroshi Yamakawa and
  • Ikuko Eguchi Yairi

Path integration is one of the functions that support the self-localization ability of animals. Path integration outputs position information after an animal’s movement when initial-position and movement information is input. The core region re...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,531 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2025

Navigating rough terrains requires a robust path planning algorithm that accounts for the physical properties of the environment to maintain stability and ensure safety. This article proposes the Hybrid A*-guided Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI)...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,039 Views
27 Pages

25 December 2024

This paper aims to address the trajectory tracking problem of quadrotors under complex dynamic environments and significant fluctuations in system states. An adaptive trajectory tracking control method is proposed based on an improved Model Predictiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation, Control and Mission Planning Advances for Safe, Efficient and Autonomous Drones)
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  • Open Access
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Particle path integrals in curved spaces can be employed to compute trace anomalies in quantum field theories, and more generally to study properties of quantum fields coupled to gravity. [...]

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The First International Conference on Symmetry)
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1 Citations
2,708 Views
12 Pages

Designing a Long Optical Path Direct-Injection-Integrated Cavity for Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

  • Quyouyang Gao,
  • Yuquan Zheng,
  • Long Wang,
  • Chengliang Li and ,
  • Jialun Zhang,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Yanxue Han and
  • Shuo Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 December 2023

Trace gas measurement has a wide range of applications needed in industrial, medical, and environmental protection. With the evolution of time, the demand for real-time, sensitivity, and accuracy of gas detection has been increasingly heightened. Off...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
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  • Open Access
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Effects of the Longitudinal Distribution of WRF-Based Optical Turbulence on Slant-Path Laser Propagation at Equal Path-Integrated Strength

  • Shaohang Cui,
  • Qiaoyu Liu,
  • Xiaohang Ji,
  • Jingxin Zhang and ,
  • Bing Qi,
  • Lan Wu,
  • Zhen Xiang and
  • Dong Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 October 2026

Path-integrated turbulence strength J summarizes total optical turbulence but omits its longitudinal distribution, which can influence finite-aperture reception. We examined this influence for a 9.92 km slant-path uplink using 36 WRF-derived Cn2 prof...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Propagation and Coherence of Light)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,344 Views
12 Pages

12 December 2025

The quantizer–dequantizer method is employed. Using the construction of probability distributions describing density operators of a quantum system states, the connection between the Feynman path integral and the time evolution of the density op...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Viktor Dodonov—55 Years in Quantum Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,788 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2023

Product line testing is significant because any faults in a product line platform can lead to widespread impacts on multiple products configured from that platform within a product line. Due to the shared platform, certain testing can be repeatedly p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
15,275 Views
125 Pages

10 November 2009

The density matrix theory, the ancestor of density functional theory, provides the immediate framework for Path Integral (PI) development, allowing the canonical density be extended for the many-electronic systems through the density functional closu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Density Functional Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,202 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2017

Conformal higher spin (CHS) fields, yet being non unitary, provide a remarkable example of a consistent interacting higher spin theory in flat space background, that is local to all orders. The non-linear action is defined as the logarithmically UV d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Spin Gauge Theories)
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  • Article
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18 Citations
6,878 Views
21 Pages

We provide a detailed description of the path-integral Monte Carlo worm algorithm used to exactly calculate the thermodynamics of Bose systems in the canonical ensemble. The algorithm is fully consistent with periodic boundary conditions, which are a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Quantum Matter)
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Power Path Dynamic Reconfiguration Method for Integrated Energy Storage-Soft Open Point

  • Pengfei Zhou,
  • Tao Xu,
  • Ziyi Lv,
  • Tianqu Hao and ,
  • Ke Chen,
  • Suhong Jiang and
  • Shidong Guo
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3 July 2026

Conventional soft open points (SOPs) suffer from limited transfer capacity during distribution network faults. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated energy storage system and soft open point (ES-SOP) along with a power path dynamic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modeling and Control Strategies for Next-Generation Power Electronics and Energy Storage Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,177 Views
22 Pages

Adaptive Path Integral Diffusion: AdaPID

  • Michael Chertkov and
  • Hamidreza Behjoo

24 April 2026

Harmonic Path Integral Diffusion (H-PID) provides an analytically tractable framework for sampling from a target density p(tar)(x)∝exp(−E(x)). H-PID can be viewed as a diffusion bridge model solving a stochastic optimal transport problem f...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,185 Views
13 Pages

At present, income and welfare inequality between migrant workers and urban natives has improved in China, but there are still many “semi-urbanized” migrant workers, whose psychological integration into the migrant city is very important for their me...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences & Services)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,376 Views
27 Pages

Probability Density Evolution and Reliability Analysis of Gear Transmission Systems Based on the Path Integration Method

  • Hongchuan Cheng,
  • Zhaoyang Shi,
  • Guilong Fu,
  • Yu Cui and ,
  • Zhiwu Shang and
  • Xingbao Huang
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Aimed at dealing with the problems of high reliability solution cost and low solution accuracy under random excitation, especially Gaussian white noise excitation, this paper proposes a probability density evolution and reliability analysis method fo...

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44 Citations
4,029 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2021

Quantum gravity is expected to resolve the singularities of classical general relativity. Based on destructive interference of singular spacetime-configurations in the path integral, we find that higher-order curvature terms may allow to resolve blac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,149 Views
11 Pages

As animals execute essential behaviors like foraging, they must orient with respect to the space around them, requiring some neural/behavioral mechanism for spatial navigation. One such navigation mechanism is path integration, whereby animals recall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Ecology of Crustaceans and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,417 Views
21 Pages

25 April 2023

This paper proposes an integrated path tracking controller for articulated vehicles. A nonlinear model-predictive control (NMPC)-based reference state tracker is designed as an upper-level controller to solve the vehicle’s longitudinal velocity...

(This article belongs to the Topic Target Tracking, Guidance, and Navigation for Autonomous Systems)
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602 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2026

A quantum-classical correspondence for non-Hermitian symmetry breaking has recently been established using coordinate-space path integrals, providing a semiclassical understanding of spectral transitions at the level of individual eigenstates. Here w...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
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804 Views
26 Pages

Path-Integrated Ultrasonic Attenuation Modeling for Concrete with Random Aggregates Based on Modified Waterman–Truell Theory

  • Haoran Zheng,
  • Chao Lu,
  • Dongjie Zhou,
  • Xuejun Jia and ,
  • Xiang Lv,
  • Laixin Gao and
  • Guangming Zhang
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5 March 2026

Ultrasonic sensing is an effective tool for characterizing heterogeneous concrete structures, yet quantitative interpretation of ultrasonic attenuation remains challenging due to aggregate-induced multiple scattering and spatial non-uniformity. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensors and Sensing Technology Used for Empowering High-End Equipment Structure)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,216 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2022

Four-wheel independently driven electric vehicles are prone to rollover when driving at high speeds on high-adhesion roads and to sideslip on low-adhesion roads, increasing the risks associated with such vehicles. To solve this problem, this study pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modeling, Analysis and Control for Electrified Vehicles)
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1 Citations
2,341 Views
12 Pages

We prove the consistency of the different approaches for deriving the black hole radiation for the spherically symmetric case inside the theory of Massive Gravity. By comparing the results obtained by using the Bogoliubov transformations with those o...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,109 Views
21 Pages

This paper describes an integrated autonomous driving (AD) control system for an autonomous vehicle with four independent in-wheel motors (IWMs). The system consists of two parts: the AD controller and the chassis controller. These elements are funct...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,116 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2024

Path tracking control is an important method for a Six-Degree-Of-Freedom Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to perform specific underwater tasks. Therefore, this paper investigates a dual-loop integral sliding mode control (DLISMC)-based tracking controll...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,641 Views
22 Pages

16 September 2024

This paper attempts to develop a unified model predictive control (MPC) method for integrated path planning and trajectory tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). To deal with the computational burden of online path planning, an event-trig...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,354 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2018

In earlier work concerning the sparsity of the Hawking flux, we found it necessary to re-examine what is known regarding the greybody factors of black holes, with a view to extending and expanding on some old results from the 1970s. Focusing specific...

(This article belongs to the Collection Open Questions in Black Hole Physics)
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  • Open Access
1,877 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2022

A quantum model of a free-electron laser (FEL) is considered. Two different approaches for the exploration of the the FEL system are considered. In the first case, the Heisenberg equations of motion are mapped on the basis of the initial wave functio...

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9 Citations
2,736 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2024

Mobile robots play an important role in smart factories, though efficient task assignment and path planning for these robots still present challenges. In this paper, we propose an integrated task- and path-planning approach with precedence constrains...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,850 Views
29 Pages

21 November 2025

Autonomous vehicles are often subjected to disturbances that compromise path-tracking accuracy and stability. Traditional chassis controllers that rely on fixed vehicle models exhibit performance limitations under such uncertainties. To address this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements and Future Trends in Vehicle Electrification and Intelligent Control Systems)
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5 Citations
1,672 Views
29 Pages

Three-dimensional UAV path planning is crucial in practical applications. However, existing metaheuristic algorithms often suffer from slow convergence and susceptibility to becoming trapped in local optima. To address these limitations, this paper p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,504 Views
9 Pages

10 January 2022

In this paper, the quantum fluctuations of the relative velocity of constituent solitons in a Gross-Pitaevskii breather are studied. The breather is confined in a weak harmonic trap. These fluctuations are monitored, indirectly, using a two-body corr...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)
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8 Citations
3,843 Views
30 Pages

3 October 2020

In this article, we present a generalized view on Path Integral Control (PIC) methods. PIC refers to a particular class of policy search methods that are closely tied to the setting of Linearly Solvable Optimal Control (LSOC), a restricted subclass o...

  • Feature Paper
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1 Citations
1,441 Views
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Test-Path Scheduling for Interposer-Based 2.5D Integrated Circuits Using an Orthogonal Learning-Based Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Chunlei Li,
  • Libao Deng,
  • Guanyu Yuan,
  • Liyan Qiao and ,
  • Lili Zhang and
  • Chu Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 August 2025

2.5D integrated circuits (ICs), which utilize an interposer to stack multiple dies side by side, represent a promising architecture for improving system performance, integration density, and design flexibility. However, the complex interconnect struc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence Optimization Algorithms and Applications)
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4 Citations
1,634 Views
43 Pages

3 September 2025

In this paper, we have constructed a closed-form optimal strategy within a social network using stochastic McKean–Vlasov dynamics. Each agent independently minimizes their dynamic cost functional, driven by stochastic differential opinion dynam...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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1 Citations
1,503 Views
21 Pages

26 March 2026

Aiming at the problems of difficult hard-constraint enforcement and weak environmental generalization ability in the safe trajectory planning of manipulators in complex environments, a Policy-Guided Model Predictive Path Integral (PG-MPPI) planning f...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,782 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2025

During the last few decades, several approximate, but useful, methods for including dynamical quantum effects in molecular simulations have been developed. These methods can be applied to systems with hundreds of degrees of freedom and with arbitrary...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,388 Views
24 Pages

21 February 2024

In the new stage of the deep integration of culture and tourism, fully exploring its mechanism of action, spatial connection, and path of influence will be of great significance to the sustainable development of the integration of culture and tourism...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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7 Citations
5,431 Views
21 Pages

23 January 2019

The Accardi–Boukas quantum Black–Scholes framework, provides a means by which one can apply the Hudson–Parthasarathy quantum stochastic calculus to problems in finance. Solutions to these equations can be modelled using nonlocal diffusion processes,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Revolution: Impact to Foundations)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,925 Views
10 Pages

28 August 2022

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is modified by the introduction of an observer-independent minimal length. In this work, we have considered the resonant gravitational wave detector in the modified uncertainty principle framework, where we have u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Gravity Phenomenology II)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,399 Views
26 Pages

16 February 2021

Spatial navigation is a cognitive skill fundamental to successful interaction with our environment, and aging is associated with weaknesses in this skill. Identifying mechanisms underlying individual differences in navigation ability in aged adults i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Individual Differences on Spatial Cognition)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,238 Views
18 Pages

Stochastic Dynamic Analysis of an Offshore Wind Turbine Structure by the Path Integration Method

  • Yue Zhao,
  • Jijian Lian,
  • Chong Lian,
  • Xiaofeng Dong and ,
  • Haijun Wang,
  • Chunxi Liu,
  • Qi Jiang and
  • Pengwen Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 August 2019

Stochastic dynamic analysis of an offshore wind turbine (OWT) structure plays an important role in the structural safety evaluation and reliability assessment of the structure. In this paper, the OWT structure is simplified as a linear single-degree-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Offshore Wind Technology)
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508 Views
38 Pages

13 July 2026

The Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect demonstrates that a charged particle can acquire an observable phase shift in a region where the local magnetic field identically vanishes provided the configuration space is multiply connected and the electromagne...

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1 Citations
1,019 Views
26 Pages

11 April 2026

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs) are pivotal hubs in modern intelligent logistics, yet their operational efficiency is often constrained by the complex coupling of storage allocation, equipment scheduling, and path planning. This stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
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22 Pages

1 December 2025

Magnetorheological (MR) dampers provide tunable, fast-response damping for semi-active suspension systems. However, their nonlinear flow behavior can limit stability and energy efficiency under broadband road excitation. This study proposes an additi...

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455 Views
29 Pages

13 August 2026

Safe navigation in coastal waters remains a persistent challenge for conventional grid-based path planning methods, which prioritize shortest-distance optimization while neglecting spatial risk distribution and kinematic trackability. This study prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Ships: Control Systems and Intelligent Navigation)

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