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The in-out formalism is a systematic and powerful method for finding the effective actions in an electromagnetic field and a curved spacetime provided that the field equation has explicitly known solutions. The effective action becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Sang Pyo Kim

We study the non-uniqueness problem of the gauge-invariant angular momentum separation for the case of QED, which stems from the recent controversy concerning the proper definitions of the orbital angular momentum and spin operator of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Weimin Sun

We improve the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) action by comparing the dispersion relation to that of the continuum through $\mathcal{O}(p^6)$ in perturbation theory. The one-loop matching coefficients of the $\mathcal{O}(p^4)$ kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-03-27 Christine T. H. Davies , Judd Harrison , Ciaran Hughes , Ronald R. Horgan , Georg M. von Hippel , Matthew Wingate

An analytically derived 'integral operator' approach is introduced to estimate the expectation value of a quantum operator for an evolving state weighted with an exponential function. This allows to compute quantities useful in Nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Simone Sturniolo

We provide a unified method for obtaining upper bounds for certain functional integrals appearing in quantum mechanics and non-relativistic quantum field theory, functionals of the form $E\left[\exp(A_T)\right]$, the (effective) action…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Gonzalo A. Bley , Lawrence E. Thomas

A useful finite-dimensional matrix representation of the derivative of periodic functions is obtained by using some elementary facts of trigonometric interpolation. This NxN matrix becomes a projection of the angular derivative into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael G. Campos , L. O. Pimentel , .

We introduce new representations to formulate quantum mechanics on noncommutative coordinate space, which explicitly display entanglement properties between degrees of freedom of different coordinate components and hence could be called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Jing , Q. Y. Liu , H. Y. Fan

Methods of angular momenta are modified and used to solve some actual problems in quantum mechanics. In particular, we re-derive some known formulas for analytical and numerical calculations of matrix elements of the vector physical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Alexei M. Frolov

We demonstrate that energy levels of excited states in a hydrogenic system consisting of an arbitrary nucleus and an antiproton can be calculated within the framework of nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics, even for a large nuclear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 V. Patkóš , K. Pachucki

Using the nonrelativistic effective field theory vNRQCD, we determine the contribution to the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) running of the effective quark-antiquark potential at order v (1/mk) from diagrams with one potential and two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-22 Andre H. Hoang , Maximilian Stahlhofen

We calculate the one- and two-loop corrections of order alpha(Zalpha)^6 and alpha^2(Zalpha)^6 respectively, to the Lamb shift in hydrogen-like systems using the formalism of nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics. We obtain general results…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrich D. Jentschura , Andrzej Czarnecki , Krzysztof Pachucki

We develop a measurement operator formalism to handle quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement induced entanglement generation between two atomic gases. We first derive how the QND entangling scheme reduces to a positive operator-valued…

A plane, monochromatic electromagnetic wave propagating in free space can have a certain amount of spin angular momentum but cannot possess any orbital angular momentum. Even the spin angular momentum of the plane-wave is difficult to…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Masud Mansuripur

Angular momentum is important concept in physics, and its phase space properties are important in various applications. In this work phase space analysis of the angular momentum is made from its classical definition, and by imposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 S. Danko Bosanac

Precise numerical calculation of radiofrequency intervals between hyperfine sublevels of the $(37,35)$ state of the antiprotonic helium-4 atom is presented. Theoretical consideration includes the QED corrections of order $m\alpha^6$ to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Vladimir I. Korobov , Zhen-Xiang Zhong

In nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, the total (i.e. orbital plus spin) angular momentum of a charged particle with spin that moves in a Coulomb plus spin-orbit-coupling potential is conserved. In a classical nonrelativistic treatment of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Hnizdo

We consider the large-charge expansion of the charged ground state of a Schrodinger-invariant, nonrelativistic conformal field theory in a harmonic trap, in general dimension d. In the existing literature, the energy in the trap has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-19 Simeon Hellerman , Ian Swanson

A model-operator approach to fully relativistic calculations of the nuclear recoil effect on energy levels in many-electron atomic systems is worked out. The one-electron part of the model operator for treating the normal mass shift beyond…

We propose a method for sorting electrons by orbital angular momentum (OAM). Several methods now exist to prepare electron wavefunctions in OAM states, but no technique has been developed for efficient, parallel measurement of pure and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-16 Benjamin J. McMorran , Tyler R. Harvey , Martin P. J. Lavery

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as both classical and quantum states of light has proven essential in numerous applications, from high-capacity information transfer to enhanced precision and accuracy in metrology. Here, we extend OAM…