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We treat low-energy $^3$He-$\alpha$ elastic scattering in an Effective Field Theory (EFT) that exploits the separation of scales in this reaction. We compute the amplitude up to Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO), developing a hierarchy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Maheshwor Poudel , Daniel R. Phillips

We formally deduce closed-form expressions for the transmitted effective wavenumber of a material comprising multiple types of inclusions or particles (multi-species), dispersed in a uniform background medium. The expressions, derived here…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Artur L. Gower , Michael J. A. Smith , William J. Parnell , Ian David Abrahams

In this paper, we study the low-energy $d-\alpha$ elastic scattering within the two-body cluster effective field theory (EFT) framework. The importance of the $d(\alpha,\alpha) d$ scattering in the $^6 \textrm{Li} $ production reaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-02 Farzaneh Nazari , Mahdi Radin , Mahdi Moeini Arani

In this chapter, we will review the field-theoretic treatment of General Relativity based on an effective field theory extension of the Einstein-Hilbert action. This pragmatic route to low-energy quantum effects in gravity critically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-20 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We derive and implement a suitable boundary condition for the kinetic description of the electrons inside a plasma, which takes into account microphysical processes inside the wall. It is based on the surface scattering kernel, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Felix Willert , Clemens Hoyer , Gordon K. Grubert , Franz X. Bronold

Nuclear effective field theory is applied to the effective range expansion of S-wave nucleon-nucleon scattering on a discrete lattice. Lattice regularization is demonstrated to yield the effective range expansion in the same way as in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Ryoichi Seki , U. van Kolck

We apply the ideas of effective field theory to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Utilizing an artificial boundary of ignorance as a calculational tool, we develop the effective theory using boundary conditions to encode short-ranged…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 David M. Jacobs , Matthew Jankowski

We discuss a general model for effective quantum field theories (QFTs), which for example comprises quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. We assume in the model a perturbative expansion of the Lagrangian with respect to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Andreas Raab

Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 He Ma , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

Effective field theories provide a formalism for categorizing low-energy effects of a high-energy fundamental theory in terms of the low-energy degrees of freedom. This process has been well established in mapping the fundamental theory of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael I. Buchoff

In this dissertation, I introduce the principles and methods of effective field theory and describe my work in three EFTs: First, in the perturbative QCD region, I use soft collinear effective theory (SCET) to prove that strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 Ou Z. Labun

A new quantum model with rational functions for the potential and effective mass is proposed in a stretchable region outside which both are constant. Starting from a generalized effective mass kinetic energy operator the matching and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Ganguly , M. V. Ioffe , L. M. Nieto

We extend previous work concerning rest-frame partial-wave mixing in Hamiltonian effective field theory to both elongated and moving systems, where two particles are in a periodic elongated cube or have nonzero total momentum, respectively.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-05-26 Yan Li , Jia-jun Wu , Derek B. Leinweber , Anthony W. Thomas

We use effective field theory (EFT) to calculate the scattering amplitude of a LIGO-like graviton-scalar Compton interaction. We gauge the center-of-momentum energy $\sqrt{s}$ between one gravitational-wave (GW) graviton (one quantum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Noah M. MacKay

We discuss effects of reflective scattering for hadron and heavy nuclei collisions at the LHC and asymptotical energies. It is shown that the reflective scattering might lead to decreasing matter density with energy beyond the LHC energies.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-23 Sergey Troshin , Nikolay Tyurin

The loss of particles due to highly inelastic reactions has previously been taken into account in effective field theories for low-energy particles by adding local anti-Hermitian terms to the effective Hamiltonian. An additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-26 Eric Braaten , Hans-Werner Hammer , G. Peter Lepage

We discuss shallow resonances in the nonrelativistic scattering of two particles using an effective field theory (EFT) that includes an auxiliary field with the quantum numbers of the resonance. We construct the manifestly renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 J. B. Habashi , S. Fleming , U. van Kolck

The asymmetric Hubbard dimer is used to study the density-dependence of the exact frequency-dependent kernel of linear-response time-dependent density functional theory. The exact form of the kernel is given, and the limitations of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 D. J. Carrascal , J. Ferrer , N. Maitra , K. Burke

We examine the phase shifts and inelasticities associated with the $N^*(1440)$ Roper resonance and connect these infinite-volume observables to the finite-volume spectrum of lattice QCD using Hamiltonian effective field theory. We explore…

The stationary state solutions of the Ising-type thin films with different layers in the presence of an external oscillatory field have been examined within the effective field theory. The exhibition focuses on understanding of the external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Bahadır Ozan Aktaş , Ümit Akıncı , Hamza Polat