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We build an effective field theory of multi-field inflationary fluctuations based on the adiabatic perturbation and on any number of matter fluctuations in the non-adiabatic sector, without imposing extra symmetries on the latter. Focusing…

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We show that thermal effective field theory controls the long-distance expansion of the partition function of a $d$-dimensional QFT, with an insertion of any finite-order spatial isometry. Consequently, the thermal partition function on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Nathan Benjamin , Jaeha Lee , Sridip Pal , David Simmons-Duffin , Yixin Xu

An effective field theory for clean electron systems is developed in analogy to the generalized nonlinear sigma-model for disordered interacting electrons. The physical goal is to separate the soft or massless electronic degrees of freedom…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-01 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

We develop a \pi-electron effective field theory (\pi-EFT) wherein the two-body Hamiltonian for a \pi-electron system is expressed in terms of three effective parameters: the \pi-orbital quadrupole moment, the on-site repulsion, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Joshua D. Barr , Justin P. Bergfield , Charles A. Stafford

A spin-1 transverse Ising model with longitudinal crystal field in a longitudinal magnetic field is examined by introducing an effective field approximation (IEFT) which includes the correlations between different spins that emerge when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yusuf Yuksel , Hamza Polat

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides a natural framework to study the new physical effects on primordial perturbations. Recently a healthy extension of the EFT of inflation with high-order operators has been proposed,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jin Qiao , Guang-Hua Ding , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

There are many possible gravitational applications of an effective approach to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in curved space. We present a brief review of effective approach and discuss its impact for such relevant issues as the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Ilya L. Shapiro

In this work we apply effective field theory (EFT) to observables in quarkonium production and decay that are sensitive to soft gluon radiation, in particular measurements that are sensitive to small transverse momentum. Within the EFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Sean Fleming , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen

Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

Density functional theory (DFT) exploits an independent-particle-system construction to replicate the densities and current of an interacting system. This construction is used here to access the exact effective potential and bias of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Daniel Karlsson , Miroslav Hopjan , Claudio Verdozzi

We implement the effective field theory (EFT) approach to dark energy and modified gravity in the public Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB. The resulting code, which we dub EFTCAMB, is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 Bin Hu , Marco Raveri , Noemi Frusciante , Alessandra Silvestri

Given a theory containing both heavy and light fields (the UV theory), a standard procedure is to integrate out the heavy field to obtain an effective field theory (EFT) for the light fields. Typically the EFT equations of motion consist of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Harvey S. Reall , Claude M. Warnick

These notes are an overview of effective field theory (EFT) methods. I discuss toy model EFTs, chiral perturbation theory, Fermi liquid theory, and non-relativistic QED, and use these examples to introduce a variety of EFT concepts,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Riccardo Penco

General formulation for the effective field theory with differential operator technique and the decoupling approximation with larger finite clusters (namely EFT-$N$ formulation) has been derived, for S-1/2 bulk systems. The effect of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 Ümit Akıncı

We present a new on-shell method for the matching of ultraviolet models featuring massive states onto their massless effective field theory. We employ a dispersion relation in the space of complex momentum dilations to capture, in a single…

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Cutoff independence is an essential requirement for the predictive power of nuclear \textit{ab initio} calculations based on effective field theory (EFT). While it is conventionally assumed that such invariance necessitates high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Chen-Can Wang , Jia-Ai Shi , Bing-Nan Lu

The response of thermodynamic systems perturbed out of an equilibrium steady-state is described by the reciprocal and the fluctuation-dissipation relations. The so-called fluctuation theorems extended the study of fluctuations far beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-21 Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito

We discuss the treatment, in an effective field theory, of multi-particle correlations within a "large" system. We show that the act of coarse-graining necessarily introduces violations of unitarity in the evolution of states where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-20 Giorgio Torrieri

Effective field theories (EFTs) provide a powerful framework to parametrise unknown aspects of possible ultraviolet (UV) physics. For scalar fields in de Sitter space, however, new emergent phenomena can arise when the cut-off scale of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Sebastian Cespedes , Zhehan Qin , Dong-Gang Wang

We investigate the possibility of constraining parameters of Effective Field Theory (EFT) of inflation with upcoming Large Scale Structure (LSS) surveys in order to have a better understanding of inflationary dynamics. With the development…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Abhishek Naskar , Sayantan Choudhury , Argha Banerjee , Supratik Pal