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Intuitive Description of Feynman Propagator?
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[QUOTE="Xenosum, post: 4864445, member: 511211"] [h2]Homework Statement [/h2] The Feynman Propagator is given by [tex] <0| T \phi(y)\phi(x) |0> , [/tex] where T is the time-ordering operator. I understand that this turns out to be the solution to the inhomogeneous klein-gordon equation, etc., but is there any intuitive description of the propagator? Can this be interpreted, for example, as the propability amplitude for a particle to travel from point x to point y? If so, why? The only thing I have to work with is that [itex] \phi(x) [/itex] is to be interpreted as an operator which creates a particle at point x. But I don't see any notion of time evolution in this definition of the propagator, or anything which is to be interpreted as a 'propagating' particle. Thanks. [h2]Homework Equations[/h2] [h2]The Attempt at a Solution[/h2] [/QUOTE]
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