Field Theory Georgia Tech PHYS-7147 spring 2005 Tue, Thu 12:05-13:25 Howey S107 Path integrals and the harmonic oscillator ------------------------------------------ In the class I used WKB formalism to quantize one particle moving in an arbitrary bound 1-d potential. That is the quickest way in 1-d, but it was not an application of path integrals. Use path integral formulism to quantize 1-dimensional harmonic oscillator. Write this up in essay form, explaing what to do. Use anything you can find in literature for inspiration, if my lecure notes are insufficient. For example, chapter 7 of Srednicki I, or any other good book. Bonus points: My lecture notes have lots of typos, and instances where the same text is unnecessarily repeated in several places. If you catch some of these, please give me your corrections marked on the current version, and I'll give you the edited version back as soon as I can. Predrag