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A novel covariant formalism for the treatment of the transfer and Compton scattering of partially polarized light is presented. This was initially developed to aid in the computation of relativistic corrections to the polarization generated…
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We investigate the consequences of the hybrid quantization approach for primordial perturbations in loop quantum cosmology, obtaining predictions for the cosmic microwave background and comparing them with data collected by the Planck…
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We reformulate the projected imaginary-time evolution of Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo in terms of a Lagrangian minimization. This naturally leads to the admission of polynomial complex wavefunction parameterizations,…
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In this article we use an electromagnetic Lagrangian constructed so as to include dispersive effects in the description of an electromagnetic wave propagating in the Quantum Electrodynamic Vacuum. This Lagrangian is Lorentz invariant,…
We propose and test several tensor network based algorithms for reconstructing the ground state of an (unknown) local Hamiltonian starting from a random sample of the wavefunction amplitudes. These algorithms, which are based on completing…
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Quantum electro dynamics (QED) comprises virtual particle production and thus gives rise to a refractive index of the vacuum larger than unity in the presence of a magnetic field. This predicted effect has not been measured to date, even…
Random optical-pulse polarization switching along an active optical medium in the $\Lambda$-configuration with spatially disordered occupation numbers of its lower energy sub-level pair is described using the idealized integrable…
There has been growing interest in studying the behaviour of QED in its strong coupling limit. The reason for this is not only that it serves as a simple prototype gauge theory for testing nonperturbative calculational techniques which one…
We present an efficient implementation of Wiener filtering of real-space linear field and optimal quadratic estimator of its power spectrum Band-powers. We first recast the field reconstruction into an optimization problem, which we solve…
Cosmological perturbation theory is a powerful tool to predict the statistics of large-scale structure in the weakly non-linear regime, but even at 1-loop order it results in computationally expensive mode-coupling integrals. Here we…
We consider the three fundamental one loop Feynman diagrams of QED viz. vertex correction, fermion self-energy and vacuum polarization in the light-front gauge and discuss the equivalence of their standard covariant expressions with the…
We analyze the electromagnetic current correlator at an arbitrary photon invariant mass $q^2$ by exploiting its associated dispersion relation. The dispersion relation is turned into an inverse problem, via which the involved vacuum…
Within the framework of a Hilbert space theory, we develop a maximum-``power'' variational principle (MPVP) applicable to classical spontaneous electromagnetic radiation from relativistic electron beams or other prescribed classical current…