Schrödinger equation from a short-time path integral

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Schrödinger equation from a short-time path integral by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
Expand a smooth wavefunction and potential in the normalized short-time Schrödinger kernel. Its odd moment vanishes and its second moment is , so one step changes the wavefunction by . Division by the time step gives the Time-dependent Schrödinger equation.

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