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Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory constitutes a framework for the non-perturbative solution of invariant masses and correlated parton amplitudes of self-bound systems. By choosing light-front gauge and adopting a basis function…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 J. P. Vary , H. Honkanen , Jun Li , P. Maris , S. J. Brodsky , P. Sternberg , E. G. Ng , C. Yang

Hamiltonian light-front field theory can be used to solve for hadron states in QCD. To this end, a method has been developed for systematic renormalization of Hamiltonian light-front field theories, with the hope of applying the method to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Roger D. Kylin , Brent H. Allen , Robert J. Perry

The method of flow equations is applied to QED on the light front. Requiring that the partical number conserving terms in the Hamiltonian are considered to be diagonal and the other terms off-diagonal an effective Hamiltonian is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. L. Gubankova , F. Wegner

We examine the current state-of-the-art in nonperturbative calculations done with Hamiltonians constructed in light-front quantization of various field theories. The language of light-front quantization is introduced, and important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-28 J. R. Hiller

We introduce a nonperturbative, first-principles approach to time-dependent problems in quantum field theory. In this approach, the time-evolution of quantum field configurations is calculated in real time and at the amplitude level. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

Some basic topics in the light-front (LF) quantization of relativistic field theory are reviewed. It is argued that the LF quantization is equally appropriate as the conventional one and that they lead, assuming the micro- causality…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Prem P. Srivastava

An introductory overview on Light-Front quantization, with some emphasis on recent achievements, is given. Light-Front quantization is the most promising and physical tool to study deep inelastic scattering on the basis of quark gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Matthias Burkardt

We employ Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory in a basis function approach to solve the non-perturbative problem of an electron in a strong scalar transverse confining potential. We evaluate both the invariant mass spectra and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-18 H. Honkanen , P. Maris , J. P. Vary , S. J. Brodsky

We study the QED bound-state problem in a light-front hamiltonian approach. It is important to establish the equivalence (or not) of equal-time and light-front approaches in the well-understood arena of Quantum Electrodynamics. Along these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Billy D. Jones

The new light-front coupled-cluster (LFCC) method for the nonperturbative solution of Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems is described and then illustrated in an application to quantum electrodynamics. The method eliminates any necessity for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-02 S. S. Chabysheva , J. R. Hiller

The method of flow equations is applied to QED on the light front. Requiring that the particle number conserving terms in the Hamiltonian are considered to be diagonal and the other terms off-diagonal an effective Hamiltonian is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Gubankova

The analogy between quantum chemistry and light-front quantum field theory, first noted by Kenneth G. Wilson, serves as motivation to develop light-front quantum simulation of quantum field theory. We demonstrate how calculations of hadron…

We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to study a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system via an ab initio, non-perturbative, Hamiltonian approach. As a test problem, we consider the physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-09 Weijie Du , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present a quantum algorithm for simulation of quantum field theory in the light-front formulation and demonstrate how existing quantum devices can be used to study the structure of bound states in relativistic nuclear physics.…

Within the framework of the Covariant formulation of Light-Front Dynamics, we develop a general non-perturbative renormalization scheme based on the Fock decomposition of the state vector and its truncation. The explicit dependence of our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -F. Mathiot , V. A. Karmanov , A. V. Smirnov

We survey recent progress in calculating properties of the electron and hadrons within the Basis Light Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach. We include applications to electromagnetic and strong scattering processes in relativistic heavy ion…

We present our recent progress in applying the basis light-front quantization approach to investigate the nucleon's structure. We solve its wave functions from the eigenstates of the light-front QCD Hamiltonian using a fully relativistic,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Yiping Liu , Jiangshan Lan , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Light-front quantum chromodynamics may lead to an accurate constituent approximation for the low-energy properties of hadrons. This requires a cutoff that violates explicit gauge invariance and Lorentz covariance, leading to the calculation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert J. Perry

The self-field approach to quantum electrodynamics (QED) is used to study the bound state problem in light-front two-dimensional QED with massive matter fields. A composite matter field describing bound states is introduced and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fuad M. Saradzhev

We review recent advancements in understanding nucleon structure within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework--a fully relativistic, nonperturbative approach to solving quantum field theories. In its initial phase, we start…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 James P. Vary , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li