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Recently, we have suggested some semi-quantitative Hamiltonian for an electron in a hydrogen atom in a weak gravitational field, which takes into account quantum effects of electron motion in the atom. We have shown that this Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Andrei G. Lebed

We compute the complete potential-graviton contributions to the conservative radial action and scattering angle for two non-spinning bodies in general relativity, accurate through fifth order in Newton's constant and including second-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Sid Smith , Mao Zeng

We present a model for high energy two body scattering in a quantum theory of gravity. The model is applicable for center of mass energies higher than the relevant Planck scale. At impact parameters smaller than the Schwarzchild radius…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Banks , Willy Fischler

We study the process, within classical general relativity, in which an incident gravitational plane wave, of weak amplitude and long wavelength, scatters off a massive spinning compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 M. V. S. Saketh , Justin Vines

The quantum field-theoretic approach to classical observables due to Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell provides a rigorous pathway from on-shell scattering amplitudes to classical perturbation theory. In this paper, we promote this formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-06 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

The S-matrix in gravitational high energy scattering is computed from the region of large impact parameters b down to the regime where classical gravitational collapse is expected to occur. By solving the equation of an effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Giuseppe Marchesini , Enrico Onofri

Using state-of-the-art scattering results in post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity, we improve the tidal sector of four different flavors of the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. We notably explore both adiabatic and post-adiabatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Malte Schulze , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Piero Rettegno , Joan Fontbuté , Andrea Placidi , Thibault Damour

We compute the classical one-loop gravitational Compton amplitude describing the scattering of a graviton off a massive spinning compact object at the second post-Minkowskian order, including terms through the quartic order in spin. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Dogan Akpinar

We revisit the quantum-amplitude-based derivation of the gravitational waveform emitted by the scattering of two spinless massive bodies at the third order in Newton's constant, $h \sim G+G^2+G^3$ (one-loop level), and correspondingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Stefano De Angelis , Andrea Geralico , Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

We apply the renormalisation-group to two-body scattering by a combination of known long-range and unknown short-range forces. A crucial feature is that the low-energy effective theory is regulated by applying a cut-off in the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Barford , Michael C. Birse

We perform a Feynman diagram calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitude for gravitationally interacting massive particles in the classical limit. Conveniently, we are able to sidestep the most taxing diagrams by exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Clifford Cheung , Mikhail P. Solon

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

Starting from the recently derived conservative tail-of-tail action [D. Bini and T. Damour, arXiv:2504.20204 [hep-th]] we compute several dynamical observables of binary systems (Delaunay Hamiltonian, scattering angle), at the 6.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

The asymptotic nature of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a clean method for comparing different approaches for modeling the two-body problem in general relativity. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Oliver Long , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel

We investigate the high-energy, small-angle limit of two-body gravitational scattering. Using power counting arguments and dispersion relations in an effective field theory for the Regge regime, we derive the general loop expansion that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Francesco Alessio , Vittorio Del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo , Emanuele Rosi , Ira Z. Rothstein , Michael Saavedra

We present the two-body Hamiltonian and associated eikonal phase, to leading post-Minkowskian order, for infinitely many tidal deformations described by operators with arbitrary powers of the curvature tensor. Scattering amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Eric Sawyer , Chia-Hsien Shen

We discuss an alternative approach to studying the low energy limit of quantum general relativity. We investigate the low energy limit of a scattering cross-section for two massive scalar particles. Unlike calculations involving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-13 Boris Latosh , Anton Yachmenev

We explore the idea that gravitational interaction can be described by instantaneous inter-particle potentials. This idea is in full accord with relativistic quantum theory. In particular, it resembles the ``dressed particle'' approach to…

General Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Eugene V. Stefanovich

We develop a formalism to compute non-perturbative 5-point scattering amplitudes and apply it to gravitational waveforms in the two-body problem for arbitrary trajectories. Drawing inspiration from Feshbach's projector formalism in nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli

The relativistic 2-body problem, much like the non-relativistic one, is reduced to describing the motion of an effective particle in an external field. The concept of a relativistic reduced mass and effective particle energy introduced some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. P. Fiziev , I. T. Todorov