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Any canonical quantum theory can be understood to arise from the compatibility of the statistical geometry of distinguishable observations with the canonical Poisson structure of Hamiltonian dynamics. This geometric perspective offers a…

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We discuss both theoretical tools to verify gauge invariance in numerical calculations of cross sections and the consistency of approximation schemes used in realistic calculations. A finite set of Ward Identities for 4 point scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Schwinn

The conflict between cononical commutation relation and gauge invariance, which both the momentum and angular momentum of quark and gluon should satisfy, is clarified. The quantum version of gauge invariance is studied. The gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 Fan Wang , Wei-Min Sun , Xiao-Fu Lü

Gauge invariance is the basis of the modern theory of electroweak and strong interactions (the so called Standard Model). The roots of gauge invariance go back to the year 1820 when electromagnetism was discovered and the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-05 J. D. Jackson , L. B. Okun

Gauge invariance, a core principle in electrodynamics, has two separate meanings. One concept treats the photon as the gauge particle for electrodynamics. It is based on symmetries of the Lagrangian, and requires no mention of electric or…

General Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 H. R. Reiss

Using a system of the corresponding Schwinger-Dyson equations of motion, a pure dynamical theory of quark confinement and spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry is formulated. It is based on dominated in the QCD vacuum self-interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gogohia

Entanglement is a hallmark of quantum theory, yet it alone does not capture the full extent of quantum complexity: some highly entangled states can still be classically simulated. Non-classical behavior also requires magic, the non-Clifford…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Claudia Núñez , Miguel Pardina , Manuel Asorey , José Ignacio Latorre , Alba Cervera-Lierta

We discuss how to implement the source terms in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) respecting gauge invariance and noncommutativity of color charge density operators. We start with decomposing the generating functional of QCD into constituents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenji Fukushima

It is generally assumed that quantum field theory (QFT) is gauge invariant. However it is well known that non-gauge invariant terms appear in various calculations. This problem was examined in Refs. [3] and [4] and it was shown that at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Dan Solomon

A set of Pauli stings is well characterized by the graph that encodes its commutatitivity structure, i.e., by its frustration graph. This graph provides a natural interface between graph theory and quantum information, which we explore in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhen-Peng Xu , Jie Wang , Qi Ye , Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek , Andreas Winter

Gauge theories are important descriptions for many physical phenomena and systems in quantum computation. Automorphism of gauge group naturally gives global symmetries of gauge theories. In this work we study such symmetries in gauge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Po-Shen Hsin , Ryohei Kobayashi

Quantum field theory is assumed to be gauge invariant. However it is well known that when certain quantities are calculated using perturbation theory the results are not gauge invariant. The non-gauge invariant terms have to be removed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Solomon

The dynamics of the torsion field is analyzed in the framework of the Covariant Canonical Gauge Theory of Gravity (CCGG), a De~Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formulation of gauge gravity. The action is quadratic in both, the torsion and the…

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We use the method of gauging equations to construct the electromagnetic current operator for the two-nucleon system in a theory with a finite cutoff. The employed formulation ensures that the two-nucleon T-matrix and corresponding…

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We present a gauge theory formulation of a two-dimensional quantum smectic and its relatives, motivated by their realizations in correlated quantum matter. The description gives a unified treatment of phonons and topological defects,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Leo Radzihovsky

Gauge theory underpins the quantum field theories of the standard model, and in a previous paper was shown via a geometric approach to describe classical electromagnetism in a form which approximates QED. Here we formalize and generalize…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Adam Marsh

The quadratic embedding constant (QEC) of a graph $G$ is a new numeric invariant, which is defined in terms of the distance matrix and is denoted by $\mathrm{QEC}(G)$. By observing graph structure of the maximal cliques (clique graph), we…

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We present a theory of excitonic processes in gate controlled graphene quantum dots. The dependence of the energy gap on shape, size and edge for graphene quantum dots with up to a million atoms is predicted. Using a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , P. Hawrylak

We provide an extended acount of the recent statistical mechanical theory of gauge invariance against operator shifting in quantum many-body systems (arXiv:2509.20494). The gauge transformation is enacted by a shifting superoperator that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Johanna Müller , Matthias Schmidt