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A fundamental problem with attempting to quantize general relativity is its perturbative non-renormalizability. However, this fact does not rule out the possibility that non-perturbative effects can be computed, at least in some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Viqar Husain , Sebastian Jaimungal

In this note we report on some recent progress in proving the AdS/CFT correspondence for quantum fields using rigorously defined Euclidean path integrals. We also comment on the infra-red problem in the AdS/CFT correspondence and argue that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-01 Hanno Gottschalk , Horst Thaler

We study two--loop renormalization in $(2+\epsilon)$--dimensional quantum gravity. As a first step towards the full calculation, we concentrate on the divergences which are proportional to the number of matter fields. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Toshiaki Aida , Yoshihisa Kitazawa , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

We study the implications of scale invariance in four-dimensional quantum field theories. Imposing unitarity, we find that infinitely many matrix elements vanish in a suitable kinematical configuration. This vanishing is a nontrivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-11 Anatoly Dymarsky , Zohar Komargodski , Adam Schwimmer , Stefan Theisen

Within the framework of the recently proposed Taylor-Lagrange regularization procedure, we reanalyze the calculation of radiative corrections in $QED$ at next to leading order. Starting from a well defined local bare Lagrangian, the use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Jean-François Mathiot

Various relations between conformal quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions are explored. The intention is to obtain a better understanding of 4D CFT with the help of methods from lower dimensional CFT.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Marcel Bischoff , Daniel Meise , Karl-Henning Rehren , Ingo Wagner

We report a theoretical and experimental study on the role of indistinguishability in the estimation of an interferometric phase. In particular, we show that the quantum Fisher information, which limits the maximum precision achievable in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Laura T. Knoll , Gustavo M. Bosyk , Ignacio H. López Grande , Miguel A. Larotonda

Through defining irreducible loop integrals (ILIs), a set of consistency conditions for the regularized (quadratically and logarithmically) divergent ILIs are obtained to maintain the generalized Ward identities of gauge invariance in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yue-Liang Wu

Quantum coherence plays a fundamental and operational role in different areas of physics. A resource theory has been developed to characterize the coherence of distinguishable particles systems. Here we show that indistinguishability of…

We present a simple argument which determines the critical value of the anomaly coefficient in four dimensional conformal factor quantum gravity, at which a phase transition between a smooth and elongated phase should occur. The argument is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Antoniadis , P. O. Mazur , E. Mottola

We gain insight on the fixed point dynamics of $d$ dimensional quantum field theories by exploiting the critical behavior of the $d-\epsilon$ sister theories. To this end we first derive a self-consistent relation between the $d-\epsilon$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 Oleg Antipin , Alan Pinoy , Francesco Sannino , Shahram Vatani

We explicitly construct fractals of dimension 4-epsilon on which dimensional regularization approximates scalar-field-only quantum-field-theory amplitudes. The construction does not require fractals to be Lorentz-invariant in any sense, and…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Jonathan F. Schonfeld

The regularization of quantum electrodynamics in the space of functions $\psi_a(x)$, which depend on both the position $x$ and the scale $a$, is presented. The scale-dependent functions are defined in terms of the continuous wavelet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Mikhail Altaisky , Robin Raj

The phenomenon of quantum number fractionalization is explained. The relevance of non-trivial phonon field topology is emphasized.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Jackiw

We treat the quaternionic Fourier transform (QFT) applied to quaternion fields and investigate QFT properties useful for applications. Different forms of the QFT lead us to different Plancherel theorems. We relate the QFT computation for…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Eckhard Hitzer

Despite its name, Quantum Field Theory (QFT) has been built to describe interactions between localizable particles. For this reason the actual formalism of QFT is partly based on a suitable generalization of the one already used for systems…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 Eliano Pessa

To understand better the quantum structure of field theory and standard model in particle physics, it is necessary to investigate carefully the divergence structure in quantum field theories (QFTs) and work out a consistent framework to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Yue-Liang Wu

We present a study of the IR behaviour of a three-dimensional super-renormalisable quantum field theory (QFT) consisting of a scalar field in the adjoint of $SU(N)$ with a $\varphi^4$ interaction. A bare mass is required for the theory to…

It is shortly investigated, on what basis an experimentally observed resonance like the Delta(1232)-isobar can be embedded into the framework of Quantum Theory (QT), i.e. Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Quantum Mechanics (QM). After a short…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kleefeld

The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference…