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A quantum statistical approach to simplified stock markets

Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Palermo, I - 90128 Palermo, Italy
(Impact Factor: 1.73). 10/2009; 388(20):4397-4406. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.07.006
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We use standard perturbation techniques originally formulated in quantum
(statistical) mechanics in the analysis of a toy model of a stock market which
is given in terms of bosonic operators. In particular we discuss the
probability of transition from a given value of the {\em portfolio} of a
certain trader to a different one. This computation can also be carried out
using some kind of {\em Feynman graphs} adapted to the present context.

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• "In some older papers of one of us (F.B.), [6]-[9], the role of information was, in a certain sense, simply incorporated by properly choosing some of the constants defining the Hamiltonian of the system we were considering. The Hamiltonian is adopted to mimic and describe the interactions between the traders, [5]. "
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• "Stock market, as one of the most important financial instruments, plays an unshakable role in basic research of finance and economics. After the noticeable works of relating economic research with fundamental concepts and methods of statistic physics in the 90s [1] [2], econophysics soon burgeons as a new interdisciplinary area, from which quantum finance is then specifically introduced for applying quantum physics to finance [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. With help of quantum mechanics [15], it is remarked that a single stock can be treated as a quantum harmonic oscillator, excited by external information, meanwhile damping to its ground state [6], while the stock index behaves as a quantum Brownian particle with assemble of stocks as a thermal reservoir [14], of which a quantum Brownian model is introduced in order to explain fat tail phenomena [16] and long-term non-Markovian features [17] by applying the theory of quantum open systems [18]. "
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