https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02775-8
Regular Article
Path integral and winding number in singular magnetic field
College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, 31023, Hangzhou, China
Received:
2
March
2022
Accepted:
25
April
2022
Published online:
5
May
2022
We study a system of identical particles in a singular magnetic field by path integral molecular dynamics. We analytically solve the problem for the energy spectrum of a single particle in a singular magnetic field and find good agreement with our numerical results. In particular, we develop the method to perform path integral molecular dynamics simulations for the many-body problem, where the recursion formula to calculate the winding number for identical bosons is given. It is expected that the algorithm developed here has a wide range of applications to cold atoms with artificial magnetic field.
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