As have seen above, the formal definition of the path integral causes problems due to the “” in the action. One way we can get rid of it is by performing a Wick-rotation, . This turns Schrödinger’s equation into a diffusion equation,
When ignoring the potential, this exactly describes Brownian motion. If we look at the motion of a particle from position Described by free particle motion; “jagged path”
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